Friday, January 18, 2008

Good-Bye May Seem Forever, Farewell Just Like the End . . .

1.
Strengths: You can tell about your own personal experiences that nobody else has ever written about. You know all the details and do not have to make anything up. It reads like fiction so it is interesting to read as well as write. Plus, you know that it is true and it actually happened so it is more interesting in the first place.
Weaknesses: If you forget details about the event, the story is not as interesting and not as descriptive. Sometimes it isn't as interesting as a fictional story, so it can get boring sometimes and lack interest.
Comparison: I like personal stories better because people can criticize fiction to death and tell you that you should change things or that something is just ridiculous and not very interesting, but you experiences are your own so nobody can tell you that it didn't happen or tell you that it should change because you are writing from you memory.
Voluntarily tackle again? I would say yes. I am sure i will have to write a lot of personal essays in my lifetime, and i've already written quite a few of them. It's something that i think i'm pretty good at and one of my strengths in writing.

2.
Reading is important throughout your life, because it keeps your imagination spinning and your mind keen. It gets you involved in something other than the real world, and has the ability of taking a person out of this world for however long they desire. It also gives you a sense of how to write, and gives you something to aspire to. It broadens your vocabulary and just keeps your mind open to new things.

3.
My favorite piece i've written this year is probably my personal essay. It was really the one piece that i put my heart into, and it was on an event that did have a huge impact on my life. Everything else we've written in class, besides maybe the poems, have just been fiction and didn't really mean anything to me personally and emotionally. So then, like i have talked about a couple times already here, my favorite genre would then be personal essays as well. My least favorite and probably the most difficult was the play, because it is not my style of writing. i Like to write explanations and using descriptive vocabulary and making a sentence flow is one of my strenghts, and i just felt really limited with the play because all i could write were stage directions. Dialogue is not realy my favorite thing to write either, so it was just hard. I didn't especially like my play, and would really never want to go see it performed onstage...ever...

4.
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
Li'l Wayne or Little Debbie:Definately Lil Wayne
McDonald's or Arby's:Mcdonalds
Chiptole or Taco Bell:Chipotle
American Idol or MTV:MTV
Buffalo Wings or Florida:Florida
New York City or Los Angeles: Never been to either..
Name you like for your future daughter: Lorlei
Name you like for your future son: Adrian
What is or what will be the first country you see outside the continent of North America: Rome maybe?
Disney movie you would be most likely to watch on your 21st birthday: if i really had to watch a movie, probably Aladdin
5. Can you figure out what Disney movie my blog title comes from? No...

1 comment:

common sense said...

Mackenzie likes lil debbie because she don't know lil wayne hahaha

Also alladin is the shiz. He's all arabian and crap.