My writing process is usually all over the place, I have to be in my room with my door shut, my music on, my fan on, and my television on, weird, I know, but that is what I have to do in order to keep myself concentrated. After I am all situated I begin by writing down different ideas on a couple sheets of paper, listing ways I could support this idea and how it relates to my topic, sometimes when I am stuck I look up sample essays online to help me out of my rut. Once I finally choose an idea I start writing the first things that pop into my head down on another sheet of paper, it usually ends up being a jumbled mess that only I can understand. After all of my ideas are laid out onto the paper I begin placing numbers beside them so I know…
My writing process all depends on what I am writing. Some writings I can sit down and write the whole things and be done with it, while others can take me multiple days or even weeks. I normally sit down and work on it until I finish, get tired of it, or a hit a roadblock. I try to stop when I feel like I am writing the same thing over and over or if I feel like I just need a break. Most of the time, if I feel like I am writing and it is really bad, it is because it is and I need to take a break and come back to it later. Working on it in pieces normally works well for me, to break it up and take it a little bit at a time. I normally struggle when I do not like what I am writing about or when I run out of information to put in my writing. I…
Emily Brent’s acts as an egotistical person and as a false Christian. She believes that she is perfect because she thinks that her religion is perfect.…
Aspen Delaney lives from one diner shift to the next. While wistful for the life she had when her brother was the alpha and her choices were her own, she’s content to keep her head down, pour coffee and stay out of the new alpha’s way. Until the night he crosses a line and turns his cruelty on her vulnerable nephew. Now Aspen is on the run with her sister, her nephew, and her former best friend – the alpha’s mate.…
To be successful one must possess an important trait, grit. Firstly, perseverance is needed to overcome the obstacles in life. For example, Arian Foster was not selected in the NFL draft. That did not stop him on his quest to be a star running back. In sum, Arian worked his way never giving up, from the bottom of the league to his dream of becoming a star running back. Secondly, passion is what drives us to keep moving forward. For instance, Arian was always doubted but that did not discourage his drive for success. Thus, he used the doubt as motivation to become who he wanted to be. Thirdly, effort has to be put out to have results. In particular, Arian had limited opportunities to show what skill he has. Until injuries to other running backs…
As quoted by American author Ray Bradbury, “plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations”, a piece of literature is composed from documenting the various actions committed by its characters. Their personas alter from chapter to chapter, scene to scene, as they experience external influences such as other characters, tragedy, profit, etc. Character growth and change is then the focal point of any work as it creates the conflicts which produce the work.…
In the book the “Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne the character Chillingworth changes multiple times in the story, unfortunately he keeps getting worse and worse. Chillingworth turns from the knowable scholar, to a symbol of evil, to the point where he is even portrayed as the devil.…
To say that there is no good in evil is to deny the very reality of evil’s existence. Black and white thinking such as the topic previously stated is what truly can hurt us the most. When you look at moral issues you must acknowledge that it is a grey spectrum, with many different viewpoints. If I told any person who has actually read East of Eden that I admired Cathy? They would think me insane and possibly give me some nasty looks, as well as cross the street when I walk past. But since you have to read this essay, I think it’s fair that I make my point. Cathy is a real go-getter, she does what she has to to make ends meet. She isn’t easily swayed, and has a strong moral foundation, whether or not it’s a good one is a moot point. Lastly, she’s not easily discouraged. Even in the face of direct adversity, she brushes herself off and keeps on trucking.…
Having the will to survive is the physiological force to fight, either mentally or physically, for one’s survival. Ellen shows this skill throughout the novel by dealing with child abuse. One example of this is her ability to cope with her father who is a self-destructive alcoholic. In the novel, Ellen is left to live alone with her father after her mother sadly passed away. This makes her life a lot worse because when her father is drunk he expects her to take her mother’s place. For example, one night when Ellen was at home her father tries to grab her and actually calls her by her mother's name, “Get away from me...That is not me. Oh no that was her name. Do not say her name to me. That was her name. I am Ellen” (Gibbons 45). This scene…
Everybody experiences change in their life. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem grows up during his time in Maycomb, and he begins to understand the town and it’s negatives. Maycomb is packed with negatives, starting from the discrimination between blacks and whites, and the four kinds of folks, each treated worse or better. Jem is able to embrace the town and learn from it through major events taken place in the novel. As Jem starts to understand the social classes, two reasons that prove this are his understanding of the town’s groupings and his understanding of what occurred in the courtroom, the readers relate to the development through the understanding of differences in people and society.…
writer, a character or the reader? How might all these experiences be linked? You need to go…
As an avid reader, I always understood and appreciated what it took to get that story to print. Especially since I always found it so difficult to take the ideas from head and articulate that point whether it be written or verbal. As the five weeks have passed I am becoming more aware of what my challenges and my strengths are in my writing.…
Since my own story has to be designed by my own, it would become a huge sandbox full of different themes that may affect readers’ emotion. For example, I wrote an interesting story for my final paper of writing 39A. I create a hypothetic world which all donuts, one of the Americans’ favorite snacks, suddenly evaporate and disappear forever from that world. I make my story hilarious by describing people’s serious, desperate moves. The president of the United States even goes on strike because there is no donut serving on his desk in the morning for three days. I ironically make fun with people’s desire of donuts to prove my point of view --- humans may be weaker than hundreds years ago even though we have so many technologies. This story was a success, and since then, and I couldn’t control my mind to write more creative stories anymore.…
-Create distinct character voices- This is a vital element in storytelling. You are writing from the perspective of your character, NOT from your own. How would your character speak, or think? Great writers observe others to find true dialogue. Listen to people on the bus or in a café. Think about cadence, grammar, accents, and confidence when you are listening in on people. Sometimes less is more especially in dialogue labeling.…
Most good stories start with a fundamental list of ingredients: the initial situation, conflict, complication, climax, suspense, denouement, and conclusion. Great writers sometimes shake up the recipe and add some spice.…