We learned more about writing essays. For most of this week we analyzed out short stories more. Me and Tyler's topics are humor and personalization. He's doing personalization and I'm doing humor. I've learned a lot about how humor and irony effect the story. My first story The Drunkard I have pretty much done. I'm having a lot more trouble with my second story Rape Fantasies. I've read it 3 times now. I understand the story pretty good now, but am still having trouble figuring out how it relates to humor and irony. Even though are topic is humor, humor is very similar to irony, and really the story more uses irony than humor. We also read our books some this week. I started a new book called Child of God. I haven't got very far yet. I'm going to read more this weekend. We also did a little creative writing. We didn't do a poem of the week this week.
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I finished the short story The Drunkard, and I'm part way through the other one I'm reading called Rape Fantasies. We also did another poem of the week. I think I am getting better at those, but I'm not really sure. Hopefully we go over it and give it a grade and stuff so I can see where I'm at. I haven't had time to finish any of the poem essays yet, but I've gotten close and I think what I did get down was good. But we'll see when we go over it next week. Some author came in this week. I don't remember his name, but I really liked listening to him. Besides him being an interesting.character and person to listen to, I actually enjoyed hearing about how he writes his books. He talked a lot about how you need to get a system for your writing, to make sure you take the time to write. Although I liked listening to him, writing still isn't my thing. I don't mind writing these blogs actually, because I can write in my own voice somewhat. But writing a book does not sound interesting at all to me. One thing I learned about was humor and how it effects stories. Its odd how humor often isn't funny, but there is still a purpose for it. I think the category me and Tyler are doing should be called Irony, not humor, because that what it really is.
This week we started reading the short stories. Me and Tyler choose Characterization and Humor as our categories. Our short stories are The Destructors, The Drunkard, and Rape Fantasies. I missed two days this week, so I felt behind in a lot of things. I started reading The Drunkard, but I'm not that far yet so I don't have a feel for it yet. Also this is random, but I'm not a big fan of the poems this week. Many of them were videos all by the same guy (whose name I don't remember). The first was okay, but the rest I didn't really like. I don't know if its the poems, or just him reading them. I think it might be both. Just something about him it's hard to explain. But some people liked them I know, so everyone has there opinions.
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