i'm a pianist. i love the way i can make a page of notes, and make it music. my music. not the way the markings on the page dictate that i should play it, but the way that i make it come out. my piano teacher doesn't appreciate my disreguard of said dynamic markings. she sucks my life and passion and energy out of a song and makes it so cut and dry. i feel like that's the way so many things are. like writing. i really enjoy it, and i'm pretty good. but after it's been put in a form and proofread until it bleeds, it's like it's not even mine. i think we should all run around hugging trees, eat bananas, and prance around in sundresses and chacos in warm sunlit fields. that's what i think. mmhm.
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Mrs. Burkhalter came up to school today with baby Raegan, but all i could think when i saw them was placenta placenta placenta...haha Amy and Zac.
Interesting as always.
ReplyDeleteI agree completely with the writing. I'm either asked to revise until I've practically written a new paper or to write the same essay over and over. Pile always wants 5 paragraph essays explaining how some aspect of the story supports the supposed theme. High school writing is programing more than it is painting...if that makes sense.
You will like college writing. Just be sure to not take basic Eng... and go for an advanced class with a good teacher. Personally, I hated English until college for a similar reason. In college, I was finally allowed to write and I had a teacher that supported me in my style.
ReplyDeleteFor example, my first english class in college was called "Sympathy in Literature"... it was amazing. There were only like 9 people in the class and the teacher just got her Doctorate in "Sympathy in 19th century British Literature".
The class was conversation, and yet still had a strong teaching dynamic. On the first day, the teacher gave us a prompt and three pieces of paper and told us that we had 45 minutes to fill the front and back with an essay. If we could not fill the paper, or if we dared to use 5 paragraph style, she told us to go ahead and just walk downstairs and drop the class now.... haha. It was amazing.
*conversational
ReplyDelete*front and back of all 3 pieces...
She also taught me to proof read my papers...or at least tried to.... lol
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ReplyDeleteJ-me!!! What happened to the fasting post??? Why'd you delete it?
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