Hey guys welcome back to another blog post! This week had to read Hills Like White Elephants, and other texts which are all linked below. After reading this we now to write our own scene. Something that happened in our lives that was emotional. Here's my scene and I hope you enjoy it! Extended Family
Summer 2018 was a very diffrent time in my life, changed my life in a way. This day I felt a million diffrent emotions in about 3 minutes.... I came home from school saw a unopened box on the counter and went stairs upstairs to lay down. I get up go grab a snack and then come back upstairs, lay backdown and I hear a "ding ding" from my phone and start looking for my phone, I find it and see a notification from instagram, I click and it opens to messages. My hearts stops..... the message reads "Hi my name is Ayana. and I am your sister" I close my phone and think to myself "WTFFFFF" my sister? huh? is this person a crackhead looking for money? So time goes by and I get another message this time its longer she says I know your probabaly really confused and scared, but I really am your sister and I've been trying to find you for the longest time, she then goe into saying I have other siblings that want to meet you. But in my head im still thinking thia girl is abosolutley crazy, but I respond saying you have the wrong person. But then she tells me some personal things about me and my dad which makes me wonder maybe she is my sister... I stop replying to her and wait unitl my dad gets home to ask him to confirm what shes saying. 4 hours later...... ( My dad walks in the door) "Hey dad can I talk to you real quick" My dad sits down on the couch " yeah whats going on" I say "so today after school i got a message on instagram from a girl that claims to be my sister and says that her mom is my mom. Is it true?" My dad explains that she is my sister and that he wanted to tell me this on his own time, he explained to me what had happened. and gave me the choice to answer her back if i wnated a relationship with her. I sat and started to process everyhting in my head, it was all very overwhelming and alittle scary to think that theres people out there that know more about me then I know of them. To this day I still havent reached out its all just to overwhelming to think about opening that box again.
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Welcome back! for this post I had to read and annotate 3 different readings, which are hyperlinked down below for your own reading enjoyment. After reading and annotating theses articles, I was then instructed to create a scene where I discuss writing with the authors and to use three quotes from each of them. It was a very cold winters day. I had just got home from school and started reading the three articles by Anne Lamott, Mary Karr, and Don Murray. I sat there procrastinating like always talking on the phone, watching netflix, and eating snacks when I really should be thinking what I should be writing in my next blog. But i think to myself theres to much distractions at my house let me go to the monument sit there and finish my work. I pack my bookbag with pens pencils my laptop, and of course some snacks!!!
I get to the moument only to see 3 people sitting at a table next to an empty table. I sit down and unpack my belongings put my airpods in and star my blog assignment. Once I finally focus in I hear a voice from the other table "The writing process itself can be divided into 3 stages: prewriting, writing, and prewriting." Once I hear that it makes me think about writing my blog and I turn and see who said it once I turn I see, Don Murray , Mary Karr, and Anne Lamott !!!! I turned and asked if they could help me with writing my blog assignment because I have no idea where to start. Mary says "In the beginning, when there are zero pages you have to cheer yourself into cranking stuff out even if later lands on the cutting room floor" and Anne says "Very few writier really know what their doing until they've done it". I then turn to Don and ask what he meant when he said that the writing process can be divided into 3 stages. He replies and says "Writing is the act of producing a first draft it is the fastest part of the process the most frightening for its a commitment. I tell them that the most frustrating part about writing is when I write and it never turns out what I want it ot how I expect it to be. Mary says "Every writer whos wortha damn spends more time losing then winning" which gave me a sense of comfort. I've always felt like it just me that writes and writes and it always ends up turning out horrible. Anne also argees with what Mary says and adds "the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty drafts first. Don says that " instead of teaching finishsed writing, we should teach unfinished writng and glory in its unfinishedness." I start to feel comfotable and my creative juices start flowing and I ask one more question before leaving the monument. I ask what is the secret to being a good writer? Mary answers saying " revision is the secret to their troubles" and Anne says " Good writing is about tellingthe truth" I left the monument feeling very confident and proud of my writing and couldnt wait until the next time i had to hand in a blog assignment! |
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