6-6:10pm: Intro, Narrating the day, checking in… how are you doing, what have you been doing…?
6:10-6:30: Talk to us about your drafts, post excerpts below and questions for your colleagues. ASK US QUESTIONS.
6:30-6:50: What is the opinion you developed, and what do you want readers of your writing on your author(s) to learn and appreciate?
6:50-7pm: Closing remarks and thoughts before submitting final draft next week.
7-7:07pm: Break
7:07-7:30pm: Writing your own story. Where do you start?
7:30-7:45pm: Let’s start with the people in your story. What do they teach you, have they taught you?
7:45-7:55: How will you start? Not so much where… but HOW and with WHOM?
7:55-8pm: Close
HW: Final Draft of paper…. AND, start writing your story, a story from your life.
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I want the readers to leave my essay with a new perspective on Lawson. I want them to see her the way I see her, fearless. I want my essay to be inspiring and to help people realize that Lawson wants everyone to be themselves and that being YOU is amazing and special.
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YES.
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I want readers to understand the importance of listening to that inner voice we all have. To not self-doubt or find the need to explain everything to others.
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I want my readers to understand that humor is therapeutic. IN order to ease the hard reality of situations you need to be able to accept and see the comedy behind situations in order to find closure. Lawson and Sedaris have focused and accepted the past in order to live in the present and think about the future. There’s creativity and possibility in the trauma and suffering. Writing is self-healing.
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Self-healing, and self-educating.
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A part that stands out to me in Lawson book is that chapter where she describes the struggle to finally accept and give herself permission to be herself. It sounds a bit cliche but it makes so much sense given the context. “Be yourself” is so common, but what does it mean? Lawson gives context to those words through her personal narrative. Her comformist school administrators and the trendy kids at school couldn’t change her, just confuse herself enough to realize nothing was stopping her from accepting her personality, style, and everything her life entails.
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My opinion is that I really like Lawson and her very open style of writing. Her openness allows us a look into another persons life. Lawson gives us a true version of her story. No picture perfectness, everything is real. I admire this about her.
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As do many!!
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Why will you be ready to submit your essay next week?
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My essay will be ready to submit next week because I am actively taking notes from this blog and writing them down. I am mentally taking notes on what to revise and I am eager to revise!
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Good practice to maintain and re-shape as you need to!!
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I am more inspired with all the ideas and input from my colleagues. I’m feeling kind of blah with the whole “essay” thing. It’s been a while since I’ve needed to use a bit of critical thinking while writing.
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I feel that! And it is nice to hear our colleagues ideas, because people can interpret things so differently!
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This discussion. I know what to revise and add to my essay by hearing everyones ideas
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Thank you, Shanti!!
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I think what has continued to drive me while developing my thoughts is how easily I can relate to their work. I usually struggle placing myself in my essays but have found myself all over this draft. My voice is stronger than ever and after reading everyone’s ideas tonight I feel reassured. Before next week, I plan on watching more interviews with Sedaris and Lawson to better understand their personalities outside of their memoirs. I hope this will help to develop stronger ideas about their individuality along with contrasting they way in which they speak about their past.
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my thoughts before writing my final draft:
-I should work really hard on it in order to make up for how preoccupied I have been these last few weeks with things that aren’t important to me.
-Make myself extra aware of the text. Really understand Lawson and Sedaris. So I’m gonna do some extra research.
– I hope you guys can manage to make yourself feel excited and happy to write your essay. I would recommend allowing yourself to connect with both the personal and universal aspects of your argument as you write!
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I like this!!
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Totally need this! Thank you
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I want the readers of my paper to know that Lawsons writing shows us all that it is okay to be imperfect and to embrace your imperfections.
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What would you ask these authors, after reading their books?
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I would ask Lawson about Victor and how he felt reading her book. I would ask Sedaris why he titled book what he titled it?
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How do they do it?? I also agree with Maddie, I would ask the same question to Sedaris about his book title.
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Ha ha….. Yes!
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Final thoughts:
I need to spend more time with my essay. This means write more and organize my thoughts. I might need to re read a few chapters for more inspo. I need to get back into the flow.
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More than time, is place. Stay in the chair! That’s the only way to get there…
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I would ask Sedaris where the hell he got the title from! I’m sure other people would also like to know! But more than that I would ask them what exactly they wanted people to get from their stories, whether or not their was a specific response they wanted or expected. And also if they felt like they got that response that they expected.
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Just realized I responded to the wrong thing. I am very very sorry.
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All good.
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Hello everyone! I hope we are all doing well, I personally have had a busy past week! I had a Bio exam due, had to awkwardly film myself presenting my speech for my public speaking class, started a scientific research paper and in the mix of all that I also had work. I work at Target and it’s been crazy busy! Luckily I work at 4am so I have minimal contact with people. But as soon as the clock strikes 8am…. The mayhem begins. Everyone rushes over to the corner of the store to stock up on toilet paper from our daily shipment before hunting down any other essentials on their list. I’m bombarded with dozens of questions, mainly asking me if I could move out of the way… but a close second would be if we have any toilet paper in stock. Oh and if anyone needs chocolate chips we received a whole pallet today( Petaluma Target) You know just in case you want to make 5 dozen cookies… that’s what I did today…the boredom is real.
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This story alone is humorous. People are very interesting. Do you find that social norms have changed since this pandemic? I went to target once and I am not going back purely due to the awkwardness of others. How does it feel to you? I bet you have some great things to write about.
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oh wow…. apologies for the late post. I totally blanked, I though class started at 7 for some reason… this really does sums up how crazy my week has been.
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Writing my own story.. Where to start? I think start compiling topics of big events, people, or time periods that really transformed you into who you are now and are getting you where you want to be. This is where I am struggling a lot because writing your own story is accepting the emotional connection to the things you have been though. For me that’s a door I have locked really tight. Everyday I write more to work on unlocking that door. What I did was write a journal entry stating my fears and making a list of things I wanted to write about that really make up who I am. This way once I have these stories on paper (the really heavy stuff), I have then consider other contributing factors of who I am and tell the lighter stories as well. I think by doing this it’ll help me answer “What is my story?” and “What message am I trying to share?”
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I am not an emotional person. I have locked that shit away too. There is so much therapy in getting it all out. It took me years of counseling and even hypnotherapy to release my demons. That’s really helped me be OK and much more accepting of myself. (I don’t always live it because it’s hard, lol, but have more respect for myself in how far I have come.)
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Take 5-7 minutes… Get some ZEN.
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Where do you start in writing your own story? A person? A place? An interaction? A feeling or thought?
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Whenever someone asks about an interesting story in my life I typically go to the summer of 2018. that was the Summer I had my tonsils taken out on my birthday. The surgery had complications and it was a truly traumatizing time for me and my family. But it is a story that has been a part of me. It is a story that is full of emotion and some humor. I think that Summer shaped a part of who I am. And it is always a fun story to tell. Lots of events and people to talk about.
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Start there! And possibly in the writing, STAY THERE!
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I don’t know what I am going to write about I was trying to think of a specific event to write about, but I couldn’t think of a really good one. I am only 16 and not much has happened. But I feel like it will start with a person. Or an interaction with a person. Why? Because human interaction is the most important thing in my life, so it’s what I most remember about my life when I look back at events. Especially during this time when I have such a lack of that interaction.
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I would start writing my own story with the journals that I started a few years ago. I actually don’t even remember why I started doing it, even though it wasn’t that long ago! It just started up for whatever reason. They were pretty discombobulated pieces of prose, but I guess that’s what should make them humorous!
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I would start by writing about the people and interactions with people throughout my childhood. Now, especially during this time I would talk about interaction and my feelings/thoughts because there is a lot going on between getting into colleges, not seeing the people I love, and this entire situation in general.
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Lot of material right now, with covid, and how it impacts future possibilities..
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I would probably start by self evaluating. Figuring out who I am and what I want to contribute to the world with my writing and otherwise. Then I would consider the moments that shaped me and tell those stories first.
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I like that approach.
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Man this is a hard question to answer. My immediate response would be with my childhood as it’s been pretty eventful. But I think, with inspiration from Lawson, I’d like to mention the crazy shit that’s happened in my childhood and laugh at it. My dad is a drug addict, he’s threatened to kill my family, he’s robbed us, the list goes on. All of this has made me the person I am today though, and I’m tired of dwelling on it. When I talk about these moments with my sister we usually laugh, because how the fuck did we stay sane through all of this? Lawson has inspired me to laugh at moments like these, so in conclusion I want to place myself in a specific event from my childhood and become reactionary towards my younger self, creating a dialogue in a sort.
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Writing my own story. That’s the million dollar question. Where do you start? Your earliest memory? I know I have blocked out a few of those. Reading Lawson’s story, I could give her a run for her money. My childhood wasn’t full of turkeys, but it was full of fuckery. Maybe the time I realized the only reason I was treated different or “special” at school was everyone else knew my biological mom was a drug addict, except for me. I was an A student because I needed to feel accepted, somewhere. It sure wasn’t at home.
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You should tell your story. I think your strength is amazing.
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Samone… yes.
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I just don’t wanna be doom and gloom. I’m figuring how to write about the shitty situations as a come up and not being brought down? Inspire someone that it’ll be ok in the end?
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Thank you! I’m getting there! I’d like to be able to inspire someone.
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yes, tell your story, I think it’s important to explain the past and how it’s effected your present.
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Even glimpses of your past and where you’re at now is inspiring. Please keep sharing. Your story plus your ability to tell a story are GOLD.
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Agreed.
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sometimes the doom and gloom stories are the stories we need to write. these are the stories that make us who we are.
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Absolutely!!
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For my story I wold probably start by looking back through old journals of mine to find memories and key events to look back on. So my story would start with what I thought was important enough to journal when I was younger. I would probably keep things in chronological order.
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Or, just pick one or two events that shaped you as a character, taught you something, or that was/were funny…
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I would probably start writing my own story from when I was a kid. I guess that’s the easiest way I can think of. I would then think about events that impacted me growing up and then keep going from there.
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Yes. Anything that impacted you, and helped carve your character is essential, and should be written.
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man this is a hard one because my most interesting parts of my life are in the early years and my recent ones, if I’m going for more dark I would talk about my childhood and my more funny adventures were all after I graduated from high school so it depends on what kind of story I want to tell the reason why my ages mainly between 11 to 18 were me just stuck inside being anti social and never leaving the house so not many stories there but I shall keep thinking of a story that of my life worth telling!
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Everything’s worth telling. You just have to decide what to tell.
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Maybe more can come out of being stuck inside the house than you think. “Fear and Loathing in Skyler’s House” or “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls inside of Skyler’s House” are all pretty solid ideas I think. No matter how mundane something seems to be, its probably not if you explain it right!
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If I had to choose a story like right at this instance I would probably talk about a particular scarring night from my childhood and only 3 people were involved in total but it was a moment in my life that shaped me into who i am today a significant amount.
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For my story, I would first have to decide which side of myself I would like to write about. Who I was? Who I am right now? or Who I hope to become? then I would decide which character were or are important to my story.
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Not to be cliche but aren’t they all important? If you could do three distinct “voices” of yourself representing past present and future, I think that that would be pretty cool.
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They are all important, but it’s more advantageous to pick one story to write about.
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Fair enough
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I like your thought process. I often forget how much we change over time. If I was to write about my life experiences from 4 years ago, its absolutely nothing like who I am today. So much as change and that alone could be an interesting story to write about. Addressing the change.
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Only one really big thing has happened in my life so far so I think I’m gonna start there. Maybe work backwards a bit but I’m planning on writing about the summer 2016 when my dad came out and my whole life kinda flipped over in about a month
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Start where your heart tells you.. where the pen tells you.
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I do think that depending on the person, the story can start at a time when nothing exciting or new happened, but for me this is really the point when I became the person I am today
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Maybe I could tell the story about my biological mother gave me mushrooms when I was 13. I was doing homework in my bedroom and she was being awfully nice for some reason. She handed me a chocolate shake and after I drank about a half of it, she laughed and told me she put mushrooms in it. No, no, not Portobello mushrooms, pshycedelic mushrooms.
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WOW I would want to read about that!
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Thats CRAZY ! I would definitely read that
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same i want to hear this story!
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That is the story. HAHA. I can write out more details. My bio mom gave me shrooms for the first time, unbeknownst to me. I tripped terribly for the next 8 hours and that is where my curiosity for drugs started. At the ripe old age of 13.
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I’m grabbing inspiration from one of my fellow colleagues and had the idea to write about some of my experiences working in retail, particularly at target. Addressing the controversy, the drama, the unrealistic expectations. Exposing the truth. Behind the scenes look at Target and reveal the harsh reality that is working retail. Would this be interesting to hear? Any thoughts?
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I love retail stories!!
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I would love it! Kinda like the Tiger King, but with Target!!! Expose all the dark truths! HAHA!
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I think it would be super interesting! I have a few friends who also work at target and I have heard some crazy stories!
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Yes you would be surprised what kind of shit goes down behind the scenes. We are pushed to our limits to go as fast as we can and even that isn’t good enough. I have been there for 3 years and still don’t get the respect that I should… so no regrets writing this paper!
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For tonight’s page….. Start where your heart tells you.. where the pen tells you.
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How about the people in your story? Who stands out? Who in your mind deserves the page?
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The people in my story are mostly doctors and my mom. I think that my mom stands out, while we were all scared she was my rock and stayed with me through everything.
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My parents in both good and bad ways. I love them both dearly, but now being a parent I am learning what a struggle it is to steer and encourage versus control and mold. My story would be a lot about this.
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My parents definitely, and my childhood best friends. Most of my memories were made with those best friends and we would always have a good time together. I would also include my friends now and all the coaches that I’ve had for gymnastics/track.
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If I did the story I have in mind know it would mainly be my mother and the lengths she goes in that part of my life and the particular story and myself because it was a lot of inner change that would define for the rest of my life.
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I think my biological mother would be a part of my story. Although my childhood was pretty messed up that was where a lot of my behaviors/attitudes/characteristics come from. She has taught me how NOT to mother, that’s for sure. And how NOT to be a human being. As far as “deserving” the page, I deserve to write about my trials and tribulations that I went through. She does not deserve the right to take up space in my head with anger and hatred anymore. (I spent a lot of money in therapy differentiating between giving her the forgiveness I didn’t think she deserved and freeing myself.)
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I love this! You absolutely deserve the page, I admire you girl!
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I am not sure what I will write about but the people in my story will be the main focus I am sure, and I think it will be focused on one or two people depending on which route I go. I think I stand out in the story, and that I deserve the page, and that is why I am writing it.
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You don’t have to know now, just think about who you are and how you got here.
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My mom stands out! Through all the hard times she kept it together! I realize how incredibly fortunate I am for this, and so the page would most definitely be for her. It would be about how most things about me come from her, etc..
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My mom deserves the page. I was rereading what I said I planned on writing about for my story and realized that as a result of my dad being absent, my mom and I became best friends. This has since changed and I miss that relationship and hope that writing about how it used to be might help me understand why things changed. So, I want to focus on my mom and the way in which she continued to make my childhood feel peaceful while it most certainly was not.
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My boyfriend would also have a part in my retail story because that is where we meet. He was my boss. The controversy alone from that story is enough to make 5 pages!
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My parents will be on the page. My friends. My enemies. Teachers. Anyones whos name I can remember will be on the page. I ont want to leave out any details.
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Good! I have to say, though… less is better and more loving for readers.
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Does anyone else have a disconnect between different parts of their lives? I feel like my story and who I was childhood-18/19 is so incredibly different than the person I have turned into from 20-30’s. I actually feel partially ashamed of the time I wasted being who I was as a teenager. It is really hard to let go of that baggage, I grew up in the stereotypical “perfect house.” I rebelled SO hard and became a fake, lying, jerk. Sometimes I have to actually take a step back and pity the girl who had no idea who she was and no strength to just be her own person. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I rebelled because my mom had spent my entire life trying to control every move I made. It took a lot to just be me. Wow, I guess I just realized my connection to how all of that made me who I am now. huh…
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For me I feel as though Im a completely different person than who I was just 4 years ago! It’s definitely a part of my life Im glad to see go.
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I was literally JUST thinking that. Except for me it’s my childhood and the neighborhood I grew up, vs the pains middle school and high school.
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Absolutely. It’s amazing how much things can change.
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I see continuity, as all events result in who you are today. Yes every moment is singular and I guess different, but here you are, the person you are as a result of those moments.
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ABSOLUTELY. Ironically I had a really hard time finding that common ground until I just wrote it out.
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Perfect!! Writing self-educates and illuminates.
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I have trouble remembering who I was before having kids to be honest. As parents, once I held my baby, nothing I did before that mattered. I got a fresh start, a new beginning. That was the most pivotal point in my life. Maybe I will write my birth story on my blog. You inspired me. 🙂
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I’ve always seen telling your story as a re-live of it, of certain moments. We do what we do in the moment, but whether or not it was the right thing is not the objective. Do you understand what happened? Why you did what you did and why others did as they did? Writing is about understanding, and seeing… developing a sight toward and for your own life. Stories are collections of understandings, singular and collective, I feel. So, what do you want to understand about your occurrence, occurrences?
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I think that I understand what happened in my story. I am very aware of what happened that Summer. I think that writing this and re-living it will allow me to perhaps close that chapter in my life. It will allow me to move on and not let it give me constant anxiety. At least that is what I hope for this piece of writing.
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Make it happen! It’s your story!!
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I totally agree, and this is going to help when I write my story to understand who I was at that time and how it affected my life!
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Identity is a big part of it… who you were, who you are, where you’re going.
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My mom would be the first person in my story because she is my role model and the main person, I want to make proud. Then I would include my dad and siblings and finish it off with my dog. I think I would talk about the struggles we faced as Latinos and the challenges my mom had raising us. I would emphasize how different it is when you’re a first generation college student.
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Looking forward to reading this, very much!!
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I think my story is impossible to write without giving my dad the majority of the attention. My dad is still a big part of my life but I think that although he is the most necessary for the story, my mom deserves the attention more. She never got the recognition for what she went through and she was so strong and inspiring the whole time. I’m hoping to tell my family’s story in a way that honors both of my parents instead of shining a light on just one
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If I was to write about my childhood, I would also have a difficult time showing recognition for my mom. I naturally bonded more with my dad over sports growing up and would write essay’s addressing him as my “Hero”. You have inspired me to start writing more about the relationship I have with my mom and focus on strengthening that bond. 🙂
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I love this.
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As do I. Can’t wait to read it.
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How to start? I want to start by writing about the most traumatizing moments of my life. Why? Because it gives me clarity and positivity to find that humor and really focus on the good. This in turn will lead it to how I have gotten to where I am.
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Everything is good. And you’re right… it’s much of what brought you here.
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Oh man. What story to tell first… Making a list now.
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Good way to start.
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Anyone who is in my story will be anyone who had some kind of impact on my life. I want to include details but also not include too much. If someone isn’t important to my story I don’t need to write about them.
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That is how I am going to write too, only with the significant people!
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How to start? I plan to start a little like Lawson started her book, with a kind of explanation before I jump into my story, so my readers will understand where I am coming from and I can give any disclaimers or anything I want to include, maybe some context if I feel I need it. I will start with myself!
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Yes!!!
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I would start with dialogue, or an observation. Thoughts?
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Exactly my plan!!
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sort of
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that’s my plan now at least. I also think dialogue would be a strong beginning!!
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Yes.. to see the words of the people in your life and that shaped your life and character. Immense value in that.
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I like the idea of starting with a dialogue, I think it’d be a strong introduction!
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Yes I agree! I think starting with dialogue would make the story more interesting. Especially if you start the dialogue with humor!
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I would start with self-reflection, dissection or even interpretation. I have learned a ton about my “inner child” and the traumas she endured. So, I would sit and speak with her. The moments that shaped her just happened to be traumatic. That’s where strength was born and bravery was bred. It was at the same time that she needed someone to be there and learned about self- reliance.
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One time I observed a kid who kept getting pulled out of school and it felt like he was only ever there on a select few arbitrary days every other week. Don’t want to go into details but it was clear later on that that kid had questionable parents with a questionable source of income. Made me realize how privileged I am, and is the reason why I have always had an infinite amount of respect for parents who do right by their kids. I think they all might be the best people in the world. Aside from maybe teachers.
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My story would probably begin describing my life as a child. So much occurred to me as a child. Traumas that now present themselves in the form of depression and anxiety. Friendships that lead to my family searching for me for about an hour before I showed up back home with a tray of cookies I helped bake at my friend’s house without informing my family. You know, the small yet amusing things worth mentioning to an audience. How my relationship with my father slowly turned into resentment and regret.Yet, I can still find it in myself to dismiss it and laugh about the strict lectures he has given me and how fixable things would be if we both stopped being so damn prideful and salty.
My own failures, injuries, and consequences, when I analize them, all contain something worth laughing at and since my childhood is filled of those juicy details and experiences, it makes the perfect subject matter. That and the fact that I’m kind of crazy?
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I think I would have a hard time starting because I don’t want to sound boring. Like most books we have read they start entertaining. I would use those books as a guide to start my story. I would think of a way to engage the reader from the start.
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I often find myself staring at a blank page for at least 40 minutes before I come up with an idea to how to start my paper. Its a skill that I’ve been working on improving because I believe its highly important to grab the attention of your reader within the first paragraph of your story. You’re not the only one!!
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I wasn’t planning on using much dialogue in my story. For me its less “re-living” and more reflection. Do you think that I can tell the whole story like that or should I try to use dialogue?
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Try it!
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Reflection could have your inner dialog. Conversations with yourself when telling your story.
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The more I think about it, I might try writing the dialogue that occurs in my head
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also I think ive decided to talk about a particular traumatizing night from my childhood that involved my mom me and one of my moms very old abusive ex boyfriend and the story I write will go into more detail but it changed me that night because I know people who have a traumatizing childhood either use it as an excuse to be an a-hole themselves just blaming others or use that trauma to benefit yourself and learn from it and never cause that kind of pain and suffering on anyone and if I ever see it to also have the will to stop it and im the person who learned to be better from it and never used it as an excuse to be a complete piece of garbage to people.
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How will I start? I want to start humorous, so it will probably consist of the text I received from my mom before coming home from school with cops on my doorstep. She though the cops were cute lol
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Loving these ideas on self-narration!!
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Individuals that have influenced and taught me about what it all means, why things happen, and so on would be my parents. They have always supported me regardless of my idiotic actions. There has always been love within my family even though we all have issues expressing ourselves and how we feel to each other. My family and friends have all played an important role in my life and have taught me things I could have only learned from them and their own human experiences. Opening my mind to other people allowed for a new perspective.
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It’s fun to just take notes, in the beginning stages of telling your own story…
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I never thought of including dialogue, but I agree, I think it would add character and life to the story.
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Dialogue aids in the picture-painting.
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One more thing for tonight’s page…. Capture voices.
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Since it’s my narrative, I think I’ll begin with myself. My first memory and what I took out from it.
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Okay y’all…. what’s on tonight’s page???
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Start where the heart tells you.. where the pen tells you
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Start where your heart tells you.. where the pen tells you. That’s what I got too! and Capture voices!
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.. Quarantine IS comedic consideration and composition!!!!
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Capture voices
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Everything is worth telling. You decide what to tell.
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#professormikey, OUT. I’ll be available for office hours for the next hour, by text. Enjoy your night… stay healthy and safe!!
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Good night!!
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