Blog Entry #3 Six-Word Memoirs

Six-Word Memoirs

Years in line… finally my turn.

This one is interesting because it symbolizes how my life is going. I have been waiting to go out on my own for eighteen years and I’m about to have my chance with college. It is scary but at the same time, it is wonderfully exciting.

Mortality wasted while worrying about immortality.

This Six-Word Memoir makes me think of how I should live my life. Life isn’t about worrying about dying and wasting your life away. Instead you should be making a name for yourself, making yourself into someone, leaving a legacy behind. You can’t leave an imprint if you don’t live your life so let it all go and have fun. I didn’t learn this until recently.

I’m in the process of dying.

Again, this is something people should learn to accept and instead focus on living and having a full life. My Great Grandmother died about a year ago. She had lived to be in her nineties and had a pretty good life. Just before she died, she told everyone to stop mourning and that this is part of every one’s life. She said that her life has been completed and she is happy to move on and that we should remember her for the good she brought and she will stay there with us if we do that. This helped open my eyes. This is part of who we are and we should make the best of it.

Constantly wondering what I did wrong.

Despite finding the last two to be very ideologically sound, they are hard to practice. I have this feeling quite often in my house and this is what inspired my first choice for the Six-Word Memoir. This leads to my next lesson and realization. Let go of issues. Remorse, anguish, and vengeance are all plaguing feelings that should be forgotten.

Geek philosopher. Usually unemployed, lovingly ludicrous.

This reminds me of a wonderful person in my life who taught me of acceptance. He is a rather humble man, lives with little, and is content with little. From the outside, he is rather… homely looking but he has inspired open mindedness in me and it has changed my life.

Tragic flaw: over-confidence. Usual consequence: unpreparedness.

One to think about for all of the people who think the world revolves around them or that their actions have no consequences. Everyone links to everyone in some way or another.

Blog Entry #2

Blog Post #2

 There are a few areas in which I would like to approve in as a writer. Obviously, it would be nice to be perfect in my writing but that won't happen. Writing is about making mistakes. I honestly have no problem with the volume of my writing. I've always been able to write on and on. Writing just flows for me and I enjoy doing it. I would like to develop my variety though. I tend to be very sarcastic in my writing and when I'm not sarcastic, I'm very straight forward. I like to write about lessons in writing generally and I don't always stray in my tone. I would love to start developing different voices if you will. Characters that will become individuals in my writing. I want to create people with words because words are power and these people could do wonders if I have variety. I'd like to try being sad, mean, nice, happy, playful, rude, arrogant, smart, energetic, zealous and so on. I want to change and be well versed. It probably would help to read a bit more so I could develop these "characters" better. This then goes along with thoughtfulness. How can I grab the reader's attention? How can I make them think? How can I do anything I want to? It all comes with thoughtfulness. I believe that all I need to do to get this is to just keep writing. I feel like I will gradually develop techniques and begin to understand the language better as it comes out of me like the lyrics to a hit song or the notes that fly off the instrument that plays the song. I think that writing can be the key to any one's future. It is quite the tool and I plan to figure out how to use it.

Blog Entry #1: WELCOME!

Blog Entry #1:   Welcome!
My name is Keaton. I haven been a lover of writing for quite some time but I never figured out a way that I could express my writing without having it be school based or so on. This creative writing class that I was just enrolled in has actually allowed me to open up time and allow myself to enjoy something I like doing. I like to write about my own experiences but I usually put a little twist on them. I was always a fan of incorporating lessons and morals in my writing that I have learned from other pieces of literature. It's like I am teaching other people how to be better without directly telling them to fix their ways. I've always loved the idea of people learning in their own way, discovering themselves, and learning how to be the best person they can be by discovering it for themselves. I'm a very family oriented person but at the same time, I like to be an individual. It's a little strange because I am very community oriented in terms of my family, but I am not social at all. I have found myself to be extremely introverted and honestly, I take pride in it. I can be social when I want to but I value my individual alone time. I'll be posting more entries shortly and keeping my own spin on everything so keep up as time goes by!