Six-Word Memoirs

"Waking up is the biggest commitment."
"I wrote it all down somewhere."
"Was young and foolish. Still foolish."
"Fact is scarce during self comtemplation."

These are all six word memoirs about life that were on the Smithmag website.  I read memoirs about several different subjects, ranging from questions to life and several more categories.  I found the memoirs about life tend to have the greatest emotional value because they are not just little updates on a current life.  People have posted things on this website that express their deapest emotion and have also posted things that are superficial and may not have any importance to speific people.  Some people post obscene things that are also rather comical rather than something that is deep and slightly depressing.  Instead of picking some of the more serious memoirs, I selected ones that speak more to character and self-enlightenment. 

Waking up is the biggest commitment is possibly one of the most true statements ever made.  The simple meaning behind the phrase is just that you can't possibly start anything that you are committed to without first waking up to do so.  For me, I know that this is true because there are many days when I wish I could just curl back into my bed and lay there all day to avoid doing the things that I know I have to do. 

To be continued...

Goals for the Semester

There is a lot about my writing that I would like to improve upon this semester.  However, there are a few things that I would like really to focus on.  For starters, I think that one aspect of my writing abilities that could be enhanced would be the volume of my work.  A lot of the time I am able to pump out words and make them seem like they make sense.  I don't think that what I'm saying always has meaning, but I usually need to write just enough to fill the criteria for what ever the assignment may be.   One thing that I know for sure is that I have never been a huge writer and I have no intentions of making writing my life.  I want to be able to write nicely and make sense with what I am saying.  If I were to increase the volume in which I write, I would feel confident that I can write effectively and that I will be able to hold my readers interest long enough for me to get my point across.  I believe that by increasing the volume of my writing I will be able to focus more effectively on the writing tasks at hand.  I will be able to articulate the stream of consciousness that is flowing and increase the duration of that stream of consciousness.  Hopefully a way that all of this will be achievable for me is that I will be writing about things that are truly interesting to me.  If I write about something that I don't care about or have no frame of reference for, then what I write will not have the effect that I would desire my writing to have.  On the other hand, if I write about something that is very interesting to me, then I will sometimes over-write and end up diluting my paper with random stuff and my thoughts won't string together nicely.  So something that I may consider doing in order to help myself control the amount of information that I spew out, I will write in five minute bursts to get my thoughts down on paper (or computer) and then I will take several minutes to review my thoughts and rearrange any information that I may need to.  I believe that this will be the most effective and efficient way for me to express my thoughts in a way that my readers will understand where I'm going and what I'm talking about.

That is all.  Tah-Tah for now! 

Welcome! Welcome!

Hi-ya everybody!  Welcome to the Awesome-sauce Writing blog.  This is a blog where the class work for Creative Writing will be posted on the fantastical interwebs for all the world to see.  To get started, I will give you a little bit of information about myself.

I am a swimmer.  That is basically my life summed up by one word.  I have won 6 Section V championship titles; 3 Individual wins and 3 Relay wins.  I have been selected to the All-Greater Rochester Team three years in a row, selected to the 1st Team All-County 4 years in a row, awarded Most Improved Player as well as Most Valuable Player two years in a row and have been elected as Team Captain two years in a row.  Pretty much all of my time and effort is spent practicing in the water.  Aside for swimming, there are many other things that I do.  I am an Eagle Scout, along with my three older brothers, and I am still active in my Troop.  I have climbed 11 of the High Peaks in the Adirondack Mountains, been dropped off by sea-plane on Upper-Sargeant Lake for 12 days and have gone to Camp Massawepie for three years.  I used to play baseball until sophomore year in high school when I was on the All-Star team for 4 straight years for Little League.  That is all that I will share for now.

There is much more to my life than just those three things.  However, because I am blogging for my Creative Writing class, I will share with you what I hope to gain as a writer in this class.  For as long as I have been able to write I have somewhat struggled to fully contain my ideas in my writing and articulate everything that I want to say in an intelligent and coherent manner.  So what I am hoping that all this blogging business will help the flow of my ideas to remain constant and that I will be able to improvements in each and everyone of my posts.  I also need help in finding the right words to use for my writing.  Like I said, I want my writing to sound intelligent so having an abundance of words to draw upon that could spice up my writing would allow me to have a comfortable basis for making my work intelligent and interesting.

Tah-Tah for now everyone!