Improv 1, Week 10

This is just a start on a piece I am working on. Its the very first free writing, so it's nothing great yet.

Smokers Unite

Lips kiss the scorching
paper that fools the fools.
Never showing the dirty
poisonous cobra
that hides in the white dress.

Classmate Response 1, Week 10

This is in response to Drika's Junkyard Quote 4 of Week 10. I could see some character that is very technically saying something like this in a piece of writing. It would probably be a under breath response to a parent saying they can't go out "after dark." I think you should use this it's the beginning of a great characters development.

Reading Response 1, Week 10

This is in response to Margaret Atwood's Happy Endings. This piece was fun to read, and it made me realize how boring a straight forward happy ending can be. The beginning and end of a story are important but the middle is what hold them together, and the middle is where everything happens. As a reader i realize that if every book, poem, or short story I read had no hardship or anything of the sort the stories would be boring. When one reads your no typically looking for something like everyday life, but something with some spice, action and romance included. We want to read about pain and suffering that ends well, but no too well. A good story isn't happy dory the entire piece, but weaves in and out of happiness. This gives a good balance to every story, and also makes them more lifelike.

Calisthenic 1, Week 10

Character Development Exercise:

Orange Shirt

I think sometimes you only use the right chunk of your brain. Wearing your neon orange v-neck t shirt with khaki pants and flip flops. Folding your arms because mama didn't give you the dessert that your mouth was wet for. Stomping your way up the stairs like Godzilla through the narrow streets of Japan. I have always wondered if you actually like your own personality , or if you pretend to be someone else that's frilly and quiet. Of course, this person would be your complete opposite. Just like that orange shirt you are loud and begging to be seen. Sometimes I find myself wishing you to Never-land where the ticking alligator could run you from Goo Lagoon to Skull Island.After doing so, somehow, someway I find that I would miss you. I missed you and your boom box of a voice, even though I would never tell you that. Without you there would be no pink pajama coffee breath breaks in the cricket nights. If you were gone home would be like Treasure Island with no map to mark "X."

This was as far as I could write in class, and I didn't edit it yet or anything. Now that I read it, it seems like a free write just to get ideas down. 

Junkyard Quote 4, Week 10

"We are all children of incest."
              -My co-worker

Junkyard Quote 3, Week 10

"When life gives you grapes make raisins."
                            -Aaron (my cousin)

Junkyard Quote 2, Week 10

"Hostile Fortune" -Decameron "Cruelty of Heaven" -Decameron