Fiction Writing And I

I love fiction writing, because I feel like there are endless opportunities and you can just allow your thoughts to take control of your hand. I found this website called http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/Writing/tips.htm and it gives tips on what you need to be a fiction writer. It explains how to start a story, and it's basically as simple as Professor Q has put it. You need a setting, a plot, character/s, conflict (we all love CONFLICT!), dialogue and theme. It also says you need point of view, but as we've learned in class we can all read the same story/poem and interpret it completely different. That's what I love about writing! I will admit and I am so ashame of this flaw that I have, I really haven't read much books. I feel like I don't have the time and/or I don't make the time. I should find the time to read so I can become a better writter because I do admit you get good Ideas from others, so if anyone can suggest a book that I should read during winter recess since I'll have more time on my hands let me know.

Literary Excellence

What is Literary Excellence? I've searched the web and all that came up was awards. So I'm guessing it's a good thing. Well here is my interpertation of it just from what I've seen on the web. Literary means pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, pertaining to authorship,engaged in or having the profession of literature or writing, characterized by an excessive or affected display of learning; stilted; pedantic, or preferring books to actual experience; bookish. We all know what excellence means, well if you don't it means the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree, an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels. Put the whole thing together and to me it means exceeding high qualities of writting, reading or anything having to do with literature. There is this guy in my Eng 330-60 class that reads 10 books (with ALOT of pages, no pictures) a week, during school semesters and 20 books on "VACATION!" Does he deserve the Literary Excellence Award? LOL..........

Female Fave

Maya Angelou I looooove her. I don't really understand why I do, but I do. I love her poems and the way she reads them even more. I've seen and heard her on TV a couple times. I guess she is so passionate about a lot of things and it poers out of her in her writting. I loved her poem for the inauguration of President Clinton, it was very inspirational. I hope as I develope my writing skills, my future readers can feel my passions.

My Writing! Hmmmm?

You know those people that are so, descriptive that when ever you read there work you can clearly see the scene they picture, or feel the feeling the characters feel, because of how descriptive the author was about the characters and what they were feeling throughout the story, well that is not me. I wish I could be more descriptive with my poems and short stories so that the readers can decipher what I am trying to say without having to actually say it.

If anyone has any ideas on how to be more descriptive please feel free to comment on my page. Any ways that help you guys be more creatively descriptive please let me in on your secret.

Prompting....

I went into Big Window and read Charles Bernstein's experiments and decided that the decoding poem would be a great idea, I'm going to try it with a poem I wrote when I was twelve called Follow the Road...If it is a success then I will post it up for all to see!
Well I searched the web for different sorts of prompting. Before I started, I must admit that I really didn't understand what it meant. What is poetry or writing prompting. Prompting is inspiring, it helps get the brain juice flowing. One of the web-sites I found that has some poetry prompting is http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/CategoryView,category,Poetry%20Prompts.aspx, most of the exercises were very creative. Another good website for writing prompts is http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/, this site helps with poetry, writing, descriptive prompting and awhole lot more. This will be very helpful for anyone who is having a hard time getting started on a writing assignment.

The Man With 2 First Names...James Joyce

Last semester in Eng 200-01 I read a short story by James Joyce called Eveline. The story was about this spineless young woman who gave up her only chance of freedom because she was too afraid of the unknown. Eveline lived with her emotionally abusive father. She felt that she always had to take care of him because that was one of his way of manipulating her, by making her feel that he wouldn't survive without her nor her without him. Eveline met and fell in love with a sailor who wanted to take her away and marry her, she almost left with him but because of all the years of mental and emotional abuse her father put her through she couldn't leave. I know I called her spineless in the beginning it's just that it hard to see why someone would stay in that kind of relationship if it is causing them so much pain, but I realize that it's a different case when you're the one in the abusive relationship.
Back to James Joyce, I feel his story of Eveline was well written, it is very short but has a powerful meaning behind it. I prefer the short and powerful types of work.

Check This out!!!

http://browse.deviantart.com/collections/ This is a cool website for the artist-in-you, you can download the art that you like or you can post your work for the world to see. It even shows some instruction on how to draw.

I love to paint especially oil on canvas so here is the site of the woman who inspired me Frida Kahlo http://fridakahlo.com/, I love her paintings because they are so contraversal, and there is something appealing about the way they can be a little disturbing.

One of my ultimate favorite singers ever is the talented Alicia Keys. I think she has a beautiful sound and her lyrics are very inspirational. It's just so impressing to me how she plays the panio so beautifully, and writes such wonderful words. http://aliciakeys.com/

This girl is a real good artist she does tattoos as well.http://www.missdanitat2.com/about.html, I found her paintings to be pretty original.

Yes I know this may sound a bit corney, but I used to love New Kids on The Block, when I was younger, so I am glad that they are back and still as cute as ever so heres a little taste of them...http://nkotb.com/

Well hope you enjoyed the sites.