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Fiction and Nonfiction stories

2008-05-09T04:50:36Z

I enjoyed everyone's nonfiction and fiction stories. There isn't anything I didn't like about any of them. All of the fiction stories were creative and engaging, and I enjoyed reading each and every one of them. The non-fiction pieces were all ...

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Critiquing Ashlee Hooks

2008-02-25T18:08:50Z

Poem 1 This poem is very sad, yet sweet. I want to know who this person is. I love how she is happily remembering this person instead of being all emo and saying "Ohhh, whyyy? I'm sad and I'm cryyyying". That is probably how she is feeling, b...

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Critiquing Amy McIntyre

2008-02-25T18:00:59Z

"The Dry Fountain of Creativity" I like how she rhymes each word at the end of every line. I think it's ironic that though she's complaining in the poem of not being able to be creative, she's being quite creative with her word choice. (Irony i...

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Critiquing Amanda Partlow

2008-02-25T17:53:13Z

Poem 1 The metaphor of the girl being the sun and the boy being the ocean is BEAUTIFUL. The descriptions are phenomenal. The last four lines bring the descriptions together very well. I love the last line the most. Excellent word choice! I wo...

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Critiquing Amanda Baran

2008-02-25T17:45:11Z

"Rupert" I like this poem, but I have one small problem: Is Rupert a dog that chewed up a book, but has now gone missing? I don't know, maybe I should read over it more carefully. The poem is very metaphoric and descriptive, but (to me) the me...

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Critiquing Alex Gregor

2008-02-25T17:40:13Z

"The sweet unknown" This poem is very sweet. I love the imagery of the coast and the horizon in the first few lines. I like the way he italicizes some of the words to add emphasis. The only thing I didn't particularly like about this poem was ...

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Imaginative Writing: "The Knife"

2008-02-25T17:24:17Z

I never thought that a piece of nonfiction could turn into how Richard Selzer describes a simple cutting tool. The very first image--"One holds the knife as one holds the bow of a cello or a tulip--by the stem. Not palmed nor gripped nor grasped...

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Imaginative Writing: Character

2008-02-25T17:13:08Z

"Imaginative writing has the power to also to take us inside the minds of characters to show us directly what they are thinking." (Burroway 89) As a child, I read countless books (mostly because I had loads of free time). Most of the books I re...

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Imaginative Writing: Development and Revision

2008-02-25T04:30:30Z

"As poet Paul Engel famously said, 'writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.'" (Burroway 207) This is the part that I look forward to least when I write something. It's a necessary evil. It seems like you've been working on a piece foreve...

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Bird by Bird: Index Cards

2008-02-25T04:11:35Z

"One of the things that happens when you give yourself permission to start writing tis that you start thinking like a writer. You start seeing things as material." (Lamott 136) Everything--an incident, a flashback, a smell, everything--can be u...

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