Metacognition: Writing a Short Story

Howdy.

In this blog post, I'm going to be talking about the oh so lovely process of writing a short story. Sounds Harmless right? Wrong. The first step to writing a short story is reading some to get your brain flowing, and then you have to think of the plot, or at the very least, your main character(s).
     I hit a block here. Considering the fact that I was only on the first step of the assignment, I wasn't feeling too hot. Then an Idea hit me. The words started flowing out of my pen onto the blank page in my notebook. I thought my idea was great. I girl who goes out for a run, she witnesses a car accident, turns out her husband was a part of it and died. Great idea at the time, three drafts later, not so much.
     I was left three days before a complete draft was due with absolutely nothing. Now I had to come up with a completely different story idea and I had three days. Two of which were spent looking at a blank computer screen. Do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with a story idea that isn't completely obtuse? Probably.
    Anyways..... I basically spent the whole weekend attempting to write my story, and the idea didn't come until my family ditched me to go to a St. Patricks day party. I cried for like two-ish hours, and then it dawned on me that, if i just changed the names around and the alleged assignment around, that I'd got my story. Awesome.
    Something that I learned through writing my story, was that original and intelligent ideas are very hard to come up with for me. I supposed this implies that I'm not a very creative person. Never have been never will be. (No seriously though, I can't do a craft project well for my life.) I have a lot of ideas, but not many of them are great by any means.
   I think it's pretty sad that I've lost whats left of my creativity. I feel like creativity is almost suppressed in school nowadays with very straight-forward/rigid assignments. Welp, that's another blog post I suppose.

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And now some parting words.

My mother regarding the fact that my brother sounds like a dying whale when he's annoyed/remotely sick.

"It's hard to tell if he's got a hang nail, or he's dying."

-my mother for ya.

An Inconvenient Truth: Mankind is Stupid

      In this blogpost, I will be discussing a truth that is rather in convient. As a part of mankind, I think I have the right to say this, as a whole, I think we're pretty stupid.

     When you look back at history, we look like absolute idiots. Sure we can capture energy from the sun and have any information you need in a light up box on your lap, but really compared to all the really dumb stuff we've done? Allow me to list just a few: WWI, WWII (didn't see that one coming did you? ;), race superiority, etc. I'm pretty sure those outweigh the technological advances that we've made.

    In class this week, we've been discussing love and how the motion picture "Once" compares to how we perceive love. Today in class specifically, we were talking about all of the insights that "Once" has given us about love: Love is uncomfortable, Love is hard to speak about, and the one I'll be focusing most on in this blog post is Love isn't always fair.

   Okay, for some reason, from what I see, most people get upset when things don't go their way. I'm pretty sure someone has told them in their life that "Life's not Fair," so why they would get upset when everything doesn't go their way baffles me. Don't get me wrong, I get upset when something doesn't go my way too, but I try and move on just like everyone else does. (some people are better at this than others.) It also helps that I'm a strong believer in the "Everything Happens for a Reason" theory, so there ya go.

   Well now that we got off on that tangent, back to our regularly scheduled programming. I think that people who think that everything is easy and is going to go their way are stupid. I know, I just called myself and probably the majority of the planet stupid but hey Jack, this is the internet, I can say whatever I want.

   Plot Twist------

  It seems like every history class since 6th grade, we've started out the year answering the question "Why do we study history?" This question bothers me because I personally don't think we should study history, al least not at the depth we delve into it. Anyways, the answer we always seem to come up with is: We need to learn history because it prevents us from repeating the past. children have been learning history in school since my parents were in school, so when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and I think we've repeated history just a couple times ya know. They're only been like half a dozen + genocides, countless civil wars, a couple of times when we discriminated against people.

    Mankind is stupid. We learn about something every year for 14 years, and then go and start another war. We say, life's not fair, and then mourn for 2 years after our relationship doesn't work out.

    This inconvenient truth bothers me because, as a member of mankind, I don't like calling myself stupid  but as the term implies, it's the truth.  Mankind has been stupid though for over 2000 years, (although I think it's gotten exponentially worse in the last 300.) So I guess we're just going to have to work on being a little smarter, and think before we perform an action.

**le sigh**