Thursday, June 14, 2012
Final Thoughts on the Course
My favorite assignment was the newspaper blackout poetry. This was my favorite assignment because I have great creative skills when it comes to making up comedic things. I had fun making the poems. My least favorite assignment was the bucket list because you only gave me a 70% when it was good. I made people laugh and presented well. I feel as though you ripped me off. I really enjoyed friday reading. The book I chose really spoke to me so I enjoyed an hour to read it every friday. The monday reflections were cool. It was an easy way every monday to get some good marks. I also enjoy writing about the comical events in my book. The WRN was hard to keep up with. I pretty much forgot about so I didn't really get much done to it. REMEMBER TO MARK IT. I enjoyed the blog because typing on the computer is better than writing on paper. I didn't make it very pretty but it gets the job done. I enjoyed tweeting because I already had Twitter before it was introduced in the class. I wasn't a fan of how the digital yoda taught Twitter because he didn't know what he was talking about but otherwise, it was neat. I'm not sure if I liked the technology in the class or not. It was a change, not sure if change is good or bad. I learned that I would rather not read, write, think or create in school. I don't enjoy school very much. My advice for future creative writing students? Get out while you still can.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Now What
There is two list items that I can accomplish together, hopefully in the next few years. #10 and #26 go hand-in-hand together for different reasons than you may think. #10 is attend the NCAA Final Four which is the last three games of the college basketball playoffs. #26 is eat at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles which is a restaurant found more in the southern states but is known for having the most absolutely delicious food in the world. While attending the Final Four is actually decent cost wise, it only takes place in the states. While I am on my trip to where ever the Final Four is taking place that year, I would have to stop off to eat somewhere. Why not stop off at #26 on my list to cross that off as well. The only thing I would need to do to accomplish both of these is save up money. I haven't really looked into pricing or anything but I have a good idea of how much money this trip would cost. A few friends and a vehicle are the only other things needed for this trip. Roscoe's is nothing special to a lot of people that live in the states. I hear about this place and how good it is all the time but I don't think I have ever been in the same state as one. I'm glad that I'll be able to accomplish two things at once. Others probably don't have these things on their lists but its just something I've always wanted to do and I will definitely accomplish these things before I die.
Author's Note
My name is Patrick Mart and I'm an average dude just trying to have a successful life. I play basketball and pretty much live my life according to that. There isn't much else I have to tell about myself because everything I have done up to this point in life is pretty miniscule compared to some things others have done. I'm not really sure what I want to do with my life so that is how I approached this bucket list. I started the bucket list searching for things that I really wanted to do and things that I would actually go after completing instead of things that I would just put down to fill out my list. Maybe this isn't the exact way of going about finding things I want to do in my life because I want to uphold a solid career and live a successful life but maybe, at some point throughout my life, I can refer back to the things I once wanted to do and try to complete them. Maybe this bucket list will give me some sort of direction that I should start heading with my life. Some career paths would cross of 5 - 10 items on this list just from the job description. I would like to note that I think this is my 4th bucket list of high school and it was never easy to think of more than 5 things I really wanted to complete. Think about what you want to do with your life and go make it happen is the best advice anybody can ever use in their life.
Writing Reflection #8
Newspaper Blackout poetry was by far the best type of writing we have done in this class so far. I found my mind working the best while choosing words that I thought would be interesting for my peom. The challenge of this was making sense of everything once I had selected the words of phrases that I found interesting. Another challenging thing was finding little connecting words to piece together the interesting phrases into a sentence or line of the poem. The unique thing about this style of writing was that the words were already given to you, you just had to select which ones you want and which order they went in. I prefer this over other styles of writing we have done because there is less for my mind to wander on. I don't have to think of the entire chunk of writing myself, I just have to rearrange it. I learned that I can be a pretty creative writer and thinker when I actually focus on the task at hand. I'm not saying I can't be successful with other styles of writing but I found this easier to focus on for some reason. It was actually kind of fun instead of pure work the whole time. I would much rather do this type of poetry than any other poetry because other poetry isn't this fun. Props to Austin Kleon for keeping things interesting. Done another reflection, seeeee yaaa.
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