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Ricky:Writing Center
Ella:How have your priorities changed from middle to highschool?

Writing Center Reflection

My trip to the writing center went exceptionally well. I met with John Harris, and he helped me improve my outline and transfer that outline into an actual paper. The reason this went so well was that my writing fellow had the same writing style as me, and since it is a rather odd writing style, he was able to help me in a way that most other people can't. This paper has been an interesting conversion for me, because my kind of writing is short stories and personal essays, so the extra help moving things along was a game changer for me.
He also suggested that I move my thesis to the front of my introduction paragraph, a change that I think made my introduction paragraph much, much better. Granted, I think my intro paragraph definitely needs more work, but any improvement is progress. I don't think that this paper would be going as well as it is if I didn't have the help of my writing fellow.

Prompt Response

James: Who is one person or a group of people that have inspired you to be who you have been today?

         I have one particular friend (a very recent friend, actually) who has inspired me to be a better person in a lot of ways. He has a such a drive mindset that makes him successful at pretty much everything, and he cares about literally everyone. He's humble, to the point where I bet if he read this he'd think, "Nah, this can't be me." It's just...the kind of person that I want to be in life.
        Besides inspiring me in that way, he also just pushes me to do stuff. One time I was stressed out because I had a paper due, somewhere around 3-4 tests, and a billion homework assignments in between, and he just texted me "Don't sit around and think about it, just get it done." So I did. Or when I was upset about my time in a cross country race, and he said that I should just "work harder in practice and it'll get there." Some people may think that he can be a little harsh, but I think it's just tough love because he wants me to do well. I want him to know how grateful I am for the impact he's had on my life.

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Sydney: LOTF Literary Analysis
Bea: Literary Analysis

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Being the writer I am, I struggle with writer's block from time to time, and one of the things I like to do when I can't think of something to write about is to go to a Random Word Generator.  This is exactly what it sounds like. It is something where I tell it how many words I want (any number between 2-10) and it literally gives me 2-10 random words. For example, I set it to six words and it gave me:
killjoydrimysskylinepoeticcredenzaamericana
To begin, I had no idea what drimys, credenza, or americana meant. So the concept of not knowing was a good topic, if you think about that for a second. Then, I could look them up and write about them. I could write about each word individually, or I could try to throw them all together. 
It's a weird way to get myself to write, but it works, and I use it. I've used it for a couple of other free posts this year, and it's how some of my personal essays I write at home turn out.

Lit Analysis Update

This literary analysis has been alright. It wasn't hard for me to choose a topic, because I've sorta had an idea of what I wanted to do this on ever since the words "Literary Analysis" have been put in my brain. And the outline wasn't hard, because it was literally me throwing words together and copying quotes. And writing the draft isn't too hard, because it's literally the outline with a couple of connector words. 

I think the hard part is yet to come, when I will have to revise my work. I have to find all of those issues where things aren't quite right, and force myself to fix them. I have to make myself give up those purposeful, literary device run-on sentences that, as those of you who have read my previous blogs know, I love very much, and keep my writing right where it needs to be.