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Aug. 5, 2010
So apparently a few weeks ago (when I was saying ******** the world!') a mentor in my youth group started a writers circle. They called it 'Poetry Circle' but screw them because they do all kinds of writing. So today I actually decided to go.

It's run by this guy Kevin who has amazing t-shirts. I've been trying to figure out for 4 years what he majored in and apparently it was writing (get use of Brown freaken University!) He made this whole augment about how writing is everywhere. What's the most used form a communication? Writing! People use it in texts (thought not well) in emails, on the internet, in books. Think about it, the most common thing in the internet is text. Somebody wrote everything on the internet.

We started off with an excise called Swim. I don't know why he calls it swim. We free wrote for 10 minuets about any object that we had find at our yard sale organizer (we're holding a massive yard sale this Saturday). I wrote about a scary doll that I assume was used for torture. The doll killed me in the end. I'd so show it to you guys, but he collected our notebooks at the end (so stealing it in two weeks when he's my last time until the winter).

Then we had to take words from our first story and use them to create a completely different story. Kevin and I were the only ones to write about different things. A word, or better yet, phrase was awful awful, so I decided to write about the Newport Creamery. We were suppose to write it like a Dr. Seuss book.

The best story out of them all was my friend Bambii's. He wrote about single glove that he had found. He wrote about the gloves life, with his friends Lenny and Tracey. Glovey was very lonely so his friends tried to set him up on a date. No body like him so he killed himself. Epic!

Then we did some one word stories and played a little word ball. When our coordinator came back we had to cut the cussing and censor ourselves. I didn't like that. A writer should feel free to write and say whatever they feel like (this was Kevin's argument too). So I'll say ******** if I want to. ********, ********, ******** I really like the fact that Kevin has started this group. It's totally below my writing abilities, but you can learn something from everything and the activities are fun. I think this is really good because there are a few writers in the group and I wish they had something like this when I was still in high school.

I'm thinking about convincing these writer friends to do NaNoWriMo. I mean, I know they have a lot on there plate. There are three of them who I want to do it. Stacey does chorus, is Vice President of the youth group, and plans on becoming a cheerleader. Jessi is secretary of the youth group and has marching band. Ray...well Ray does nothing. He has no excuse, he's doing NaNo.

I think it would be really great to convince them to do it or at least try. When I found NaNo last year my friend Michelle was going to do it with me, but she bailed. It's a hard commitment, but I totally thin they could do it. I really love those kids. I know I'm only a few years older than them, but since I've had a leadership position over them the whole time I've know them, one I haven't even slightly abused (alright, I did abuse Seniority, but not my section leader position or my presidential position) that I think of them as my kids, or at least see the ones closer in age as younger siblings. I want to pass on my love for writing to them. mrgreen

Aug. 7, 2010
Totally got not writing down but that's totally okay. I needed a break. Now, after my oh-so-fun birthday party I feel so relaxed (which is weird, since we spent the whole time playing Marco-Polo in the pool and running around the neighborhood playing manhunt, not very relaxing games).

I'm really sad write now. Not a depressed sad, but a nostalgic sad. I'm going to miss my friends. I guess I'm just scared. Everything is changed. I'm becoming an adult, I'm moving into college, my dad's getting a new job, I've finally figured out what I truly want to do with my life. But I'm going to miss everything from my old life. The band, my youth group, high school, my friends. I'm honest to God scared and I don't want to lose all these people that I call friends, who are practically family to me. Honestly I have tears in my eyes while writing this, because I love them, and I'm going to miss them like crazy.

Haha, I understand what you are going through with being afraid to leave everyone behind. It is horrible having a great time with friends/family but then getting nostalgic because you are going to somewhere new without them. You will be fine smile

Beginnings can be tricky! The beginning sets the whole thing, tells a reader whether this is worth reading or not. Cliches are coming back with fads such as Twilight but the really new things get the real respect. A great exercise to do is pick a random subject you feel passionate about such as anti-abortion and write something on that subject. It gets you out of the 'cliche' mindset and into the nitty gritty real life setting.

Cliches are always going to be in a story, you cannot avoid them. Complete originally is very hard to achieve however I am sure you can do it after a few years experience. The first years of being a writer is exploring cliches and learning from mistakes. I don't think anyone can really have enough experience.