Raven's Online Writing Protfolio

After Two Weeks

ravenisawriter — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:17:58 +0000

After two weeks of being in Mr.Weilers Creative writing class I have learned more about myself. When we started writing our autobiography I was getting more comfortable with writing in that class. Doing our morning pages helped me open up when we write in Creative Writing.

When he told us that we had to write a short story, I felt different about myself. I felt that I wasn’t quite ready to write a story. I felt that when I finished my autobiography I got a little more comfortable with writing my short story. I feel that as time go on with being in this class I will open up more with my writing.

“Thinking Through Feed Back”

ravenisawriter — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:03:45 +0000

I feel that the feedback that was giving to me about my short story was very helpful. There wasn’t criticism giving or anything. My peers just read over my rough draft and gave me some suggestions that they felt would help in the future and with my final draft. One of peers told me that my writing is realistic and she likes that I used dialogue in my story. She also told me that I had to much dialogue not as bad thing, but to help and I appreciated it, but using dialogue is how I get into my story I don’t like a lot of narrative talking. Another one of my peers said that same thing about me writing real life problems. She also told me to write clearly and make sure all my grammatical errors are correct and I feel that that was very helpful because sometimes I write through stuff so fast that I make a lot of mistakes.

I feel that getting feed back from people my age was a good idea. The reason I feel that getting feed back from my peers was a good idea was because I feel that getting feed back from them was a better chance of us getting a good grade because not only did we get feed back from them we get feed back from the teacher also. The feed back helped me because it gave another opportunity to fix my work before turning it in for my final grade. It also gave me a chance to get a better grade. I also feel that giving negative feed back is a good Idea because when someone tell me something negative it makes me want to do better, not only those it makes me want to do better it pushes me to do better.

“Self Reflection”

ravenisawriter — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:31:14 +0000

As they say you won’t miss it until it’s gone. Well this class is over and I am going to miss it. I have learned a lot from being in this class. I learned more then just finding out that I can write stories and poems. I found out that I can do whatever I want if I put my mind to it. I have learned some things from my writing that I cam take with me and be successful in live. When I first came to this class I said that I don’t know how to write and that I dint belong in there, but as time went by I was glad that I was put into Creative Writing. Creative Writing is not just a class where you go just to write, well at least not for me, I went to that class and found the inner me. I never knew that I can write so good until Mr.Weiler came alone and taught our class that we can write. Thanks why I want to say thank you to him. Thank you Mr.Weiler for coming alone and helping me realize that I can write and not only that, but I can do what ever I set my mind to do.

My Power Word

ravenisawriter — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:18:17 +0000

The word that I chose to be my power word is “Pulchritudinous.” Pulchritudinous means beautiful and as you all may know I am beautiful. The real reason I chose that word is because pulchritudinous sounds like an inspirational word to me. It sounds like more than what it really means. It’s a word that when you first look at it, it have you thinking what those this say and mean, but when you find out how to say it you get attached to it. I feel that when you think about the word pulchritudinous it makes you want to do more than just a little bit. It makes you want to be ahead of the game.

Pulchritudinous reminds me of Akeela in the bee. It reminds of the part when she works very hard to try to spell that nig word and she succeed. It makes me want to challenge myself like that man challenged her. When I think about my word it makes me understand that I am going somewhere in live. Pulchritudinous, just thinking about the word make me feel that I am more then what I know I am. I feel that I can get very far when I think about my power word.

My Final Project Proposal

ravenisawriter — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:27:57 +0000

I chose to write a short story for my final project. The reason I chose to write a short story is because every sense we had to write that fairy tale I’ve wanted to write another story. I have had story in mind that I feel would be good to write. I feel that writing a short story is easier for me. The reason I feel that it is better for me is because for one it’s just like the fairy tale and I know what to expect when I turn it in. Another reason is because with the short story we have a narrative arc that would help us plan and write our story and we don’t have to do much, but talk about what the narrative arc mean and that helps us with our beginning, middle and end. And I feel that the narrative arc is a big help to us.

My story is about a teenage girl living in a strict world. I have no clue why I chose that, but sense I’m a teenage girl I think that I could work with it. I think that writing about something that I’m interested in would help me a lot. Writing about a teenager is something similar to me. Some things that I am going to write about in my story can rely back to me. I mean not the whole story is going to be about me, but I might put some things in there, I don’t know yet. I feel that the things that I am going to discuss in my story will inspire teens now to think before they act. In my story there will be some does and some don’ts. I’m not going to just straight up say don’t do this and do this, but the teenagers actions will tell it all.

If I Could Write A Best Seller

ravenisawriter — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:32:39 +0000

If I could write a book the title of my book would be “The Real Me.” My book would be fiction. The reason I would want my book to be fiction is because I want people to know the real me. I would want people to know how it is living in my shoes. I would want everyone to know how I live. I want people to know that I am as real as they come. Writing a book about me would be a very good book. The reason I feel that way is because people always tell me that I’m real. They always tell me that I tell it like it is. Just like people I know I’m real and I want the whole world to know it as well.

My book would consist of everything I do. Everything I say would be true cause when worst comes to worst I’m still real. I am going to be myself and I’m not going to change for nobody, not even when becoming famous is involved. Some people might like my book because they might say oh she is too ghetto, but people like me that keeps it real only know that being ghetto doesn’t have anything to do with keeping it real.

” My Fairy Tale… a happy ending?”

ravenisawriter — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:04:00 +0000

Writing my fairy tale was hard. When I first started I was like I have no clue on how to write a fairy tale. During the process of writing my fairy tale I had gave up on writing it. I said that this is stupid why we are writing this. As the days went on while everyone else was writing and typing their fairy tale I was lost. I had the beginning but I didn’t know how the middle would. By that time I had came up with an ending and still no middle that’s when I started typing because I told myself that I would write the middle as I type.

When I was done typing the beginning I still couldn’t come up with the middle to my story. That’s when one of my fellow classmates Jameshia Sutton helped my write the middle. That’s when I was set I had my beginning, middle and end. So I started back typing and finished my story. When I turned it in I was happy that it was all over. It took a lot of my chess and I was relieved. I had a good experience while writing my story. Writing this story gave me an opportunity to get better and more comfortable with writing.

Even though writing this story was a hand full it only got me ready to write another story. It helped me get ready for the future so when I have to write something like this. I have to admit I never thought that I was going to finish my story but I did and I am proud of myself.

“My Fairy Tale”

ravenisawriter — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:02:36 +0000

So far my fairy tale is not going good. I have no clue on what to write about i dont even no where to start. The only thing i have is my theme and my narrative arc. The reason i haven’t got far is because this is boring.

This is confusing because we had to start our story with our narrative arc and I thought to myself why should we have to start with our narrative. I thought that started our story with our narrative was not a good idea. I said that i didn’t know where to start my story and the narrative arc wasn’t helping. By monday I hope to have gotten further with my story.

Am I A Writer

ravenisawriter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:25:35 +0000

I consider myself a writer just a little bit. It all depends on what I am writing and how I am feeling. I really don’t write alot but when I do I try to make it sound professional and on point basically make it sound like i know something about writing. When I am writing and I don’t feel like it I tend to repeat myself.

I like to write plays because I like to express my feelings. The reason I don’t write a lot is because I am the type of person that likes to say how I feel. I mean there’s nothing wrong with writing, but I feel that I am not the type of person that likes to write. My writing goal is to make sure that I don’t repeat myself while I’m writing and to get take this class for granted. I am going to look at this class as a class that is going to help me with my writing skills.