From there we looked at the story of paint drying and a bomb exploding. Miss Abena asked us which one do we think would be more interesting. So obviously the first thing that came to my mind was a bomb exploding. You know the term "boring as paint drying". That was came to me because imagine actually watching paint dry. How boring can that be? It seems like such a pointless and mundane event. While a bomb exploding would mean a huge event with a lot of things happening, from people screaming to a huge explosion to policemen arriving to the area.
So when I read the story with was quite a surprise that I found the paint drying story actually much more interesting. I realized that the writer managed to take such a small and expand the thoughts of the character in the story which makes me relate to the character more. As I am hearing her thoughts on life. People are always in a hurry that they don't have time to think for themselves and this even of watching paint dry makes them open their eyes and truly reflect on their lives. While I found the bomb exploding story really boring. Even though it was a huge event there was too many things going on. The person was give very brief description to catch up to the event and it was all a rush. I found it entirely boring as the person was basically describing what was happening instead of writing about his or hers feelings. So in a way as a reader we cant relate to her.
We were about to write our on story of something really mundane and make it seem so interesting but unfortunately we ran out of time. I learned that to make something interesting you must write about:
1) what is happening to its surrounding
2) Reflect on what the character is thinking
3) Expand the event into something deep and thoughtful
4) It is in your hands to make the story either boring or interesting
With that in mind, I am now going to look more into life whenever doing something mundane that way I can reflect on who I am as a person more!
Great reflection Azzah. It clearly shows how you took the learning and analysed it to gain lessons that you can apply to your own skills. I will be interested to see which event you have taken to write about and I am sure there will be some very engaging writing that comes from the lesson. I look forward to reading it!
ReplyDeleteTargets:
ReplyDelete- Check your use of capital letters; use capitals for titles (including stories) but not for a description (e.g. a story about paint drying)
- Consider the sentence types you are using; at times you could continue a sentence with a connector rather than starting a new one; at other times, you could use a complex sentence or relative clause to add more information instead of having a separate sentence
- Proofread carefully for simple spelling errors and use of 'ing'
Remember this is going out to the world and I do use the blog to assess general writing skills, as this type of writing is much more like the type that goes out to the public (and will in your future life) than essays done in class.
Good effort!