Kanpekina Designs

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6 Word Memoir #6

This is my family category. I chose parents because of everyone in my family the person who has inspired me most is my mom. I lost my mom nearly 3 yrs ago on November 26th. My mom was my role model, a singer/song writer, an athlete, and most of all the most amazing and supportive mom anyone could ever be. I miss her so much, love you moma.

6 Word Memoir #5

This is for my past category. I chose mistakes made because I have really good hind sight. When I first dated my love we didn't see each other much. We were young though and we were both really shy. After just over 7 months I ended up leaving him because I thought I had found someone else. I would probably call this the worst mistake of my life.

6 Word Memoir #4

This is my memoir for growing up. I chose the relationships category because that is kind of my area of expertise. I find some people don't know the person they think they love well enough when they commit to them and as they get to know each other they realize they aren't good for each other at all.

05/11/12

Writing Reflection #8

I actually really enjoyed the Newspaper Blackout Poetry. I did have a little bit of a problem at first, probably doesn’t help that my first poem was the longest and most definitely the most difficult. I find I was trying to say what I wanted to say rather than finding the words that stood out and letting them speak. Once I realized that there were actually really beautiful poems under the articles I found it a lot easier to just pull out the special words.

I think my biggest problem was actually getting the poems on the construction paper and getting that on the wall. Lefties and scissors just don’t mix nicely.

Now as for the unique qualities of this type of writing; I think I found a few. I really liked the idea of changing something as normal as a newspaper article into something entirely different. I’m pretty sure that’s what the author of the newspaper black out book said too. (Sorry his name is escaping me at the moment.) He was really right, after the few poems I did that has to be my favorite part.

Another thing I liked was just this whole subtractive way of writing. Every other form of writing I know is adding words to a page and making it speak the way you want, and trust me I have nothing against that; I totally love writing my novels. Still taking words away the way this style requires is something totally new to me and I really liked it.

Finally I like how this form of writing is so short and sweet, so to speak. I write novels most commonly and I know I can be very long winded so this type of writing is really something new to me, and I totally love it. I’m not giving up my novel anytime but it definitely changed the way I look at word count.

Reading Reflection #8

05/11/12

Reading Reflection #8
No Title at this Time
Desiree Henry
Prep Work

Hello again. This week I’ve been looking at the idea of a new book. My main character is a 17 year old girl and for the introduction we are introduced to her as well as her boyfriend, also known as the love of her life; but what happens when she loses him.

Due to some current BS going on in my life as well as my recent interest in a certain mythical creature I have been having a bit of a difficult time with the book I had been writing, I sort of lost my inspiration. It’s been quite a while since this has happened to me but it seems I might have to put Phoenix Confederation on the back burner for a little while.

Have you ever had that feeling that you just have to get words from pen to paper. That burning that says you’re not allowed to do anything else and takes all other creativity away from you until you just give in. That’s truly how I’m feeling with this new idea. It’s sort of taking over my conscious thought.

I’m not giving away details other than that little brief but the reason I’m putting this into a reading reflection rather than a writing reflection is because I haven’t actually started the writing yet. All I’m going to say is there is so much to know about the creature I’m writing about and so much I didn’t actually know; it really surprised me.

Reading reflection #7

Reading Reflection #7
Immortal City
Scott Spear
1 - 290 pg.

Well this past week I actually got into a good book. I just loved the chemistry between the two main characters. I had a text to self connection when Maddy mentions that her and Jackson are from two different worlds. Devon and I always say that because we were raised completely opposite from each other. I personally think that our different backgrounds and similar experiences are one of the reasons we're so good for each other. We have allot of the same ideals but many different methods for accomplishing our goals.
I think the first question I asked my self when these two characters meet was I wonder if this author has had his own love at first sight. He nailed the description of their first meeting. I love how descriptive he is, it really helps me to draw a detailed picture in my head, and I'm really good at that as it is.