Thunderous: September 2017

Friday, September 29, 2017

Writers as Readers

2. I absolutely love Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Historical fiction. It's mainly because I find these genres to be very deep and unique. Many of the ones that I like tend to be very dark, realistic, and violent. I hate it never feels like the main characters are ever at risk of losing anything. I absolutely love that feeling that no one is invincible that George R. R. Martin has mastered. I also love to read from the perspective of villains and anti-Heroes. It's helped me develop a belief that everyone is the hero of their own story even the worst of us.

3. I don't really know who I write like. I know that when I take certain tones in my writing I tend to write like a writer that uses that tone a lot. Like when I write humor it tends to be like Mark Twain or Voltaire. It's very sarcastic and condescending. When I write in a very dark way it kind of sounds like Steven Erickson because it's very matter of fact, and straight up, I don't ever use allusions, or anything or than plainly saying it.

5. When I first picked up Gardens of The Moon by Steven Erickson, I could not put it down. The complexity and the interlocking of different story arcs made it like a puzzle and it was just driving me crazy to figure it out until I finished the book. 1984 is easily the most boring book I have ever read. Honestly it's a terrible novel, I probably would love it if Kurt Vonnegut wrote it, but George Orwell is such a dry writer he would be more at home writing for a newspaper than writing novels. It's so factual with little to no illusion, he writes as if he actually lived in the universe of 1984.

11. When I write it's solely for me to say what I want too, how I want too. I have a very independent spirit, and I hate to feel like I have to change how I act to please some one else. So my writing is very aggressive and in your face, and I often have to resist the urge to write obscenely just to rub it in people's face. I have to restrain myself to use it when it actually is necessary for the story. I often write to offend just to prove that I can, maybe it's because I'm a rebellious teen.

Comments: Object Writing

Hey Jourdin I had tons of toy soldiers to so this really brought back some good memories. Good Job!

Hey Alyssa, Wow this is really good, The way the twins played off each other was amazing.

Hey Carson, This is a fascinating concept that you do a good job of explaining in a page.

6 word memoir

Life is a war, I win

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Caged Bird Poem: The Choice of The Lion

Freedom worth so much
Yet comes with a heavy cost
Difficult to keep, but can never be truly lost
An unimaginable burden worth all hardships
Freedom worth dying for
The Lion or the Lamb
Freedom or Slavery
A path of hardship or a path of ease
You make the choice
For no one can make it for you

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Maya Angelou Questions response

10. The hardest part about writing is to convey wait I'm trying to say in a way that doesn't require the context and assumptions that I have in my own head. I often write assuming perfect communication of ideas. I really struggle to limit my references to things that other people who haven't studied history as deeply as I have will get. Part of that is just how righting is no author has ever had their work been read by a hundred people and have a hundred people get the exact message the author was trying to say. Being a good writer is an impossible skill to master, even some of the writers I look up too (Brandon Sanderson, Eric Flint, Robert Jordan, Steven Erikson, John Ringo.) all have strengths and weaknesses in their writing, John Ringo writes basically the same character every time, but it works because he does it very well. Brandon Sanderson characters can be one dimensional, even as his world building is absolutely phenomenal. It's an art form that is constantly changing even as the words stay the same.

8. There is a world of difference between truth and fact. A fact is something that is objectively true, but it's something that can be manipulated into portraying something that is fundamentally not true. The truth is a a collection of facts that are interpreted correctly. One can present facts in a way that can change the presumed truth of them. The truth is something that you can say and instantly everyone's head in the room is nodding.

1. She said the reason the caged bird sings is because it's screaming. I disagree with this idea that we as individual people are caged. We always have choices it's just that we often don't like the consequences from those decisions. It is impossible to take a person's will away from them. Human's can always make their own choices. Even as someone holds a gun to your head and tells you to do something you still have a choice not to do it. This bird cage has the door wide open, the only problem is that their is a hungry cat waiting for us to fly out. We either get to stay in the safe cage or dare to face the cat.

5. I think I could go five years without talking. I'm a pretty introverted person. I really do enjoy my time alone, and I can just listen to people telling stories for hours. I think it depends on who I'm with I can talk a lot. I think I strike a good balance between how much I talk and how much I listen.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

If I Were in Charge of the World Poem

If I were in charge of the world
I'd cancel Stupidity,
speed limits,
waiting and also
Oscar Bait Movies

If I were in charge of the World
there'd be Video Games
Space ships and
Explosions.

If I were in charge of the world
you wouldn't have Bad Internet
you wouldn't have passive aggressive people
you wouldn't have a bad time
or "people telling me I'm right."
You wouldn't even have to be told that.

If I were in charge of the world
an oatmeal cream pie would be a vegetable
All Horror movies would be good
and a person who sometimes forgot how to be serious
and sometimes forgot to be humble
would still be allowed to be
in charge of the world.