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Snow Leopard:
Just listened to the jingle. I like it  :)

caffinatedloz:
Good luck picking electives! The things you do in Year 9 won't majorly affect your life, so choose things that you think you'll genuinely enjoy! You'll like school better and probably find the homework less mind numbing.
What are you learning towards most?


--- Quote from: SlowandSteady on September 13, 2019, 08:29:53 pm ---As for what’s been happening in school:
English – After submitting my persuasive on one hour’s sleep, I’ve moved on to creative writing and this entire unit is really disagreeing with me :( I just really struggle to think of an idea under pressure. We’ve been doing this thing in class where we’re given a prompt and we need to just write for 6 minutes. Lately, I haven’t been writing anything for them. I just can’t think of anything good and it’s really frustrating. The assessment will be exactly the same: we’re given a prompt and we just have to write. A 500 word short story is due on Monday; I have the weekend, so I should be fine.

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The best way to get good at writing creatively is to practice. If you know that you're expected to write to a prompt in six minutes, why not pick a prompt a day and write for six minutes? It won't take up much of your time and should definitely improve your writing quality.

I saw a post literallylauren made a little while ago with some tips about creative writing (not that I can find it now :-\), and the things that she said (that you will hear time and time again) are to show not tell and to make the internal external.

Show not tell.
Rather than saying: "She was angry."
Try: "With tense shoulders, she clenched her fists as her stoic gaze rested upon..."

Making the interal external.
Rather than saying: "She was angry."
Try: "The volcano within her boiled and bubbled, threatening to explode. And when it did, hot dangerous lava would come flying in every direction."

Using a mixture of these two ideas and heaps of practice completely changed my writing. I hope it agrees with you a little more before you finish the unit!

<3

SlowandSteady:

--- Quote from: laura_ on September 13, 2019, 10:01:37 pm ---Good luck picking electives! The things you do in Year 9 won't majorly affect your life, so choose things that you think you'll genuinely enjoy! You'll like school better and probably find the homework less mind numbing.
What are you learning towards most?
The best way to get good at writing creatively is to practice. If you know that you're expected to write to a prompt in six minutes, why not pick a prompt a day and write for six minutes? It won't take up much of your time and should definitely improve your writing quality.

I saw a post literallylauren made a little while ago with some tips about creative writing (not that I can find it now :-\), and the things that she said (that you will hear time and time again) are to show not tell and to make the internal external.

Show not tell.
Rather than saying: "She was angry."
Try: "With tense shoulders, she clenched her fists as her stoic gaze rested upon..."

Making the interal external.
Rather than saying: "She was angry."
Try: "The volcano within her boiled and bubbled, threatening to explode. And when it did, hot dangerous lava would come flying in every direction."

Using a mixture of these two ideas and heaps of practice completely changed my writing. I hope it agrees with you a little more before you finish the unit!

<3

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Thanks so much! I'll definitely try and get some practice in next week. The problem lies mostly in actually thinking of an idea that doesn't sound bad in my mind (quite the feat) and putting pen to paper. Never thought about externalising; that's a fantastic piece of advice!

caffinatedloz:

--- Quote from: SlowandSteady on September 13, 2019, 10:25:14 pm ---Thanks so much! I'll definitely try and get some practice in next week. The problem lies mostly in actually thinking of an idea that doesn't sound bad in my mind (quite the feat) and putting pen to paper. Never thought about externalising; that's a fantastic piece of advice!

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Draft, draft, draft! The first copy of my creative writing is awful. There's a couple of good bits mixed in with a whole bunch of filler words and sloppiness. No one has to read that copy, the copy where everything in my head, no matter how it sounds to me, goes down on the paper. You can always refine it later.

Have you ever head of unconscious writing? It's a warm-up activity that's really helpful for what you've been saying you struggle with.

SlowandSteady:
I ended up going with Digital Innovations and Digital Technology as my two electives, having already handed in the application. Straight after that I had second thoughts as to whether I should have done Spanish because of the mark I got today (yay) and how disappointed the teacher was when I told her I wasn't doing it (one of the nicest teachers I've ever had, but boy can she lay the guilt on).
Oh well.

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