Creative Writing Reflection Finale

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Question 1
I have done a lot of writing this class. Looking at it all, it doesn't seem like much, though. I mean I've filled out a full journal, but I just don't think I've done all that much. I've created countless story openings, I wrote ten pages of random characters that I may or may not use. I wrote out the assignments that we've had. I even had to write out an entire story in an hour because my friend didn't want to put forth the effort. And yet, I haven't written as much as I wanted to. What I'm really trying to say here is that I can always write more so I haven't written enough yet. I have never been able to complete a single story; I can never write beyond chapter three. I always lose interest and just stop to do something else. Now, though, I might be able to write beyond that, but who knows?

Question 2

I've read quite a lot over the semester. You may have seen me at some points with a book in my hands. I've read all sorts of different stories. One was about a guy who gets hit by a car. He dies, but then is allowed to come back to life after going through a trial to see if he deserves to come back. He comes back to life, but on the condition that he helps spirits who have escaped to the living world return to the afterlife. Another story I've read is about this kid who has been looked down on his entire life. He was born with a demon sealed inside him and everyone wants both him and the demon to go away. All that the kid wants is for people to acknowledge him a give him the respect every human deserves. One story I've read is about this guy who becomes someone who exercises demons who are hunting souls in the living world. As time goes by, the number of demons only increases. Then, the guy's friend is escorted back to the afterlife to be executed, so he follows her to prevent that from happening. One story I've just started is about a kid who has the spirit of an Egyptian pharaoh within him. And ancient battle involving conjuring monsters from stone tablets has been recreated in the form of a children's trading card game. The kid has to compete in a tournament of this game in order to rescue his grandfather. This proves difficult as certain people abuse the ancient powers from which this game was created in order to try and steal the souls of the kid, his pharaoh, and both of their friends. Now that I think about it, a lot of the stories I read have to do with such dark concepts. Oh well.

Question 3

As I recall, setting up my blog was a bit of a drag. It wasn't difficult or time consuming, I just didn't really want to do it. Writing a blog hasn't been something I had ever considered doing before. This experience, however, hasn't been very enlightening; it's been just like writing on my own, but with everyone in my class having the option to judge me for it. I came up with the name "Reece "The Taco Man" Yells at Cats" by just picking and choosing different words that were going through my head completely at random. My blog could have just as easily been named "Card Games on Motorcycles." I think a lot of my classmates ended up reading bits and pieces of my blog, but I doubt they'd do it outside of class. I mean, who would read a blog entitled "Reece "The Taco Man" Yells at Cats" without being told to for a grade? I'm not trying to be a downer, I just don't think people would be too interested in my work yet. I don't think I'll continue this blog after this semester. I may continue to blog, but not with this page. If I do continue, it would be about some of my work that I'm doing. I'm planning on creating a series of video game walk-throughs with commentary with my friends, so the blog would be about different things concerning that.

Question 4

Journaling has been a boring experience. I can understand why people keep records of what they write, but I just find it a chore. It hasn't been too much different from just writing for assignments in class. Mainly the only thing I see in my journal is assignments. I don't see my journal as actual writing. I doubt anybody would want to read my journal, honestly. I won't continue this journal. I'll continue to write, just not for a journal. The things I'll write about are discussed in Question 7, so please look there so I won't have to write it twice.

Question 5

Excerpt from the journal of the Taco Man.

This may not be a landscape, but a skyscape works just as well. To people who don't believe they are limited to just the ground level, the sky is as much a landscape as the land itself. Most people would consider these dark, heavy clouds to be bad weather, but rain - even an overcast sky - is peaceful of weather than a sunny sky.

Question 6

Excerpt from the blog of the Taco Man.

"What makes someone a "hottie" to you?"

To me, what matters is what's inside. Don't misunderstand me; I'm still about as shallow as the next guy, but I look for personality more than anything. The best way to explain is in the form of an analogy. Think of a jelly doughnut. When I buy a jelly doughnut from Krispy Kreme I don't actually care about the bread part. What I'm after is that strawberry filling. Maybe this isn't a very good analogy, but I think it gets the point across.

Question 7

I plan on writing for fun and becoming a novelist. I have a few ideas based on TV shows I watched as a kid and video games that I enjoy playing. For instance, some writing that I'm about to start has been inspired by a show that you might have heard about. It's called Yu-Gi-Oh, and it's a show about a card game. What I get the most out of writing creatively has to be rediscovering all sorts of things that I once knew. I recently started to watch that show again since I started to write regularly. I have found a game series that I haven't played since forever. I get a lot out of creative writing, I'm just too tired to think of what all it could be. One thing, though would be reassurance. I have posted things on this blog that represent some of what kind of writing I'd do, and I had no idea how well they would have been met. Then I see some people from this class post their comments and I realize that maybe, just maybe, I can be a writer. Thanks guys!

Question 8

All right, guys, time to wrap this up. I won't take too long to try and inspire you guys and give my words encouragement. I just have this eighty-seven page speech prepared. A-hem, "Four score and seven years ago, when I was seventeen years of age, I went into a high school writing class. This was the first time any of my writing had ever been seen by the entire class. I realized, as soon as we sat down that first day, that everyone could look at any piece of my writing at any time they wished. I didn't care, I just wrote as I would on my own. It came time for the blogs to be created, so I typed the first thing that came to mind. I kept doing that, until finally, I had managed to make it to the end of first quarter. Now it is the end of second quarter, and I'm right back where I started: sitting in an uncomfortable chair, writing the first things that come to mind, wondering how my work will be met by the others here. Being self-conscious as I am, it is a little difficult for me to allow others to judge me based on my work. Yet, here I am. Typing up everything on my mind without so much as a second thought. If I can do it, so can you." So, did I exaggerate a little? That wasn't quite eighty-seven pages, huh? Well, the point is still there. Don't worry about how people will respond to what you do. Just go out there and do it.