This week, we mainly learned about how to revise, wisely and efficiently. We also learned how to write and balance life as well. We also kept with the theme of analyzing and writing about poems. Our large focus was on revise and editing though. This week we went into our creative writing form this marking period and analyzed all of them and chose two to revise and edit. I learned that I may be good at writing plots for stories, but also that I am not the best at painting a picture in the readers mind. I focused my revising and making clear, vivid images that the reader can put together in their minds. I do this so they could not only understand the sequence of the story, but so they could also see, smell, or touch it. Increasing my knowledge on this subject was gratefully helped when we brought in an author who has written a decent number of books, which people seem to like. He not only helped with the revising lessons, but he helped with how to balance life when writing or just working. He explained that you should not edit your work until you leave it to “age” for a day or two, so that you have a fresh mind when you look at it again. He also explained that running your work though a bunch of people, and listening to their feedback, it can help greatly. The author was James Jackson and his good reads profile can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5444962.James_Jackson. James also explained that he gets in a routine where he writes 4 hours a day. He also explained that if he ever runs into writer’s bloc, he will watch a video or play a game until he is ready to write again. I learned to split my time into what matters and still include time to work. He reminded us to have fun with friends and that sometimes work can wait, because life goes by and we don’t want to miss it. This week was a major help to me because I now know how to be more efficient and non-biased in my editing and revising, and I also am better at balancing life after that presentation and the class periods throughout the week.
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