For this assignment, I read A Fable for the Living by Kevin Brockmeier. It is a story about people who write letters to old relatives who have passed away and they communicate to them that way. I also read 5 Reasons to Write a Letter to Yourself (and How to Do It) and A Motivational Letter to Myself (Jenna Terek) for this assignment if you would like to check them out
Dear McLovin, You wanna know what I think of writing? I hate it. I hate it more than the Jews hated Hitler, more than the Mongolians hated the Chinese, and more than OJ hated his wife. I am only writing to you because it is a requirement and the only way I am going to possibly get through this class. I would apologize to you for the past but I am not going to. I still do not like you and I hope I can get through this class. I am not here to be the stand out student who has the best writing or rewrite War and Peace. Marshawn Lynch once said in a press conference “Do you know why I’m here? I am only here so I do not get fined.” This is honestly the mentality I have going in this class. But I will not be getting fined if I don’t pass the class. The fine is equivalent to me having to take the class again next year at Alabama, which I guess would kind of be a fine because I would have to pay again to take the class. I just want to be able to focus on the business world and ways of beating the system when I get to college, which is why I am getting all of my core classes done now. Anyway McLovin, I hope that during the semester we can work together to accomplish some good writing so I do not have to retake the class next year. My past experiences with writing are mostly negative. I write when I am forced to, and dread doing it. The thing is, it isn’t that I am a terrible writer. It is just that I think there are many more things that I would rather be doing with my time, and I don’t feel like writing is going to take me anywhere in life. When I sit down to write something, it feels like such a chore. I have to sit down with nothing around me and just think and think, and think some more until I figure out what I want to say and how to say it, and it takes so long. Then I will usually write about a paragraph before getting distracted, and that’s if I get lucky. When I get distracted I don’t want to get back into writing mode because I sincerely just do not like it. After hours and hours of writing, when I finally get done, it feels like I just got hit by an 18 wheeler and bounced down the highway 400 feet. In order to interact withMclovin on a regular basis, I will attend class regularly, pay attention to what the teacher says and how to get the work done, and then go home and write my assignments every week.
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Sabatino
2/3/2020 07:32:18 am
CIF
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Sabatino
2/3/2020 11:58:54 am
The forcefulness of the language and opinions about writing allow me to feel your relationship with writing and with your author-self. I see the use of simile to make comparisons...what type of tone is communicate here:
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Ryan
2/4/2020 11:02:53 am
Love the aouther name
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Michael Aruffo
2/4/2020 07:51:50 pm
I definitely understand the feeling of being forced to take classes and do things simply to pass the class. It can be a really frustrating feeling.
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