Songs/Artists/Albums I’ve loved recently: A Bird’s Last Look – Macabre Plaza Third Coast – Teezo Touchdown Almost Fantasy – Fog Lake Vanished – Crystal Castles 20 Feet Tall – Erykah Badu ME – Erykah Badu All Across The Sands – The Stone Roses Books I’ve enjoyed recently: The Creative Act – Rick Rubin Movies/ T.V. […]
A secret i’ve never been keen on talking about is my chronic overthinking. It’s something i’ve been working on throughout my ladder years, but still definitely remains an issue to this day. My ultimate concern with it is how I acquired such a bad habit, and the inability to pinpoint that causes me to halt
On August 12th of this year, I was on a work trip in Boston; after a day of traveling and navigating the city, I waited to hear from my late boyfriend, Chris. My phone rang, although the voice was not one I was expecting to hear. Earlier that day, my boyfriend had sent me out
TASK 1 One of the saddest moments in my life happened almost a year ago now. An intervention had occurred, forcing a ravine between me and my abusive ex boyfriend. During all of the police visits, and phone calls, and meetings, one of those stuck in my head as a painful experience. My mother
The Saddest Moment of My Life In the summer of 2022, my dad and his girlfriend, Melissa, were in a motorcycle accident. The accident happened around 4:30 pm, but I didn’t find out until 5 hours later. I was getting ready to hang out with a friend when my boyfriend called me and told me
Potential Story Ideas: A very trusting person discovers they are being stalked and then their whole life is turned upside down when the police do nothing and they are left wondering who it is and if they’re still being followed. Kind of a mystery/thriller/crime story Main character: • naive • innocent • overly trusting •
Write every day for 10 minutes at 9pm 1/23/24 – This is the stuff I wrote in class when I didn’t have my laptop I love reading. Some of my favorite books are the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz, the One Second After Series by William Forstchen, The Hobbit, Steven King books, Narnia, Harry
The following is based on a conversation I had recently. It was when I finally realized that however I was feeling about this certain situation was fine, after feeling like I had to feel a certain way. I don’t know how to emphasize my feelings or the importance of this conversation to me so I
Brain Dump: ~Consider characters, setting, conflict, themes, ideas. Anything that comes to mind… senses, colors, places, smells, objects, time periods, etc. Make a mess!~ 1/23/24 Person dealing with something and then going camping, forced to deal with it. -canoe through the small, tight stream, with each spider that falls and makes its way into
Commitment to do creative work everyday, at 8am, if I am able for 10 minutes. Compost Heap: ~Collect anything that interests you. Make Lists. What did you do today? What did you enjoy/hate about today? What did you listen to? What’s a lonely time in your life?~ 1/23/24: When I got to school
What things interest me. I am into soccer and guitar the most. I like to research guitar specs, as well as being interested in the build of it. I am also into design, from digital created such as adobe apps, photography, and more, as well as being interested in natural design, such as wood and
Things that interest me, a collection: I like listening to podcasts where female athletes talk about their experiences and how they got to where they are today. I like watching the cooking videos on tiktok, especially the one where the girl makes different meals in her dorm room. She makes these amazing meals with so
For something I regret doing, I can single out one event during high school where I decided to play a basketball game even though I was injured. During one game I sprained my ankle and was supposed to be out of the court for two to three weeks. We had a very important game after
For the prompt, regret something you did, I work at a Shaws grocery store in my home town. I have been working there since I was in high school, going on five years or so now. I got promoted to a customer service representative a couple of years after I started working and have been
The biggest regret I have is complicated, because it’s not really a regret anymore, because I am happy with the path I am on now. However, for a time, my biggest regret was not following my path in soccer. Soccer was my main focus and passion, playing it since I was four years old. My
Fictionalize one of your own wounds or traumas and give it to a story character to explore.
Using your story idea from Task 3, develop the protagonist’s “ghost” by answering all the question from Find Your Character’s Ghost. Next describe both the normal world of the protagonist ( and maybe how it reinforces their “lie” and then the adventure world which forces them to confront that lie.
Honesty and Courage If you’re going to write…you have to be willing to do the equivalent of walking down a street naked. You have to be able to show too much of yourself. You have to be just a little bit more honest than you’re comfortable with… -Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline To practice
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Collapse Will Look Nothing Like in the Movies B Collapse as depicted in movies. Photo by Natalya Letunova on Unsplash Modern — overdeveloped — societies in the West are already in a severe crisis. Something, which will eventually turn into a long global emergency in the years and decades ahead. A five centuries long era
What Can You Tell a 17 Year Old Who’s Afraid of Dying from Climate Change? Part 2 What to learn, how to think, how to live Steve Genco Another screen grab from the video game Fallout 4, This is how many young people today imagine their future. I originally published this post as one long
What Can You Tell a 17 Year Old Who’s Afraid of Dying from Climate Change? Part 1 How to live a meaningful life in a time of turmoil Steve Genco A screen grab from the popular video game Fallout 4, a favorite among gaming youth. This is the post-apocalyptic view that greets survivors emerging from