Week 5: Famous Last Words

For this week I believe that my best writing was done in the Storybook Introduction. I know this was written in week 4, but I spent this week revising it. For this post I spent a lot of time researching about each of my characters to create a different personality for them. It was exciting to pick who my ‘therapist’ would be for my Storybook, I ended up picking Ganesh. For the Introduction I tried to write using more dialogue, which was actually really hard to do. I also had more than two characters, which was the amount I have usually used in my posts this far. It was a difficult, but fun challenge to try. I believe this new style was a success.

(Large Ganesh Statue. Image Source: Wikipedia)

I really enjoyed reading some of my fellow students work this past week. I truly believe that there is some great talent in this class! I was reading through some of the posts and Allison took the story of the Himalayas and Vindhya and turned it into a story about a blanket fort! I thought that it was an awesome story! I think she did a great job of taking the story and making it truly her own, which is something I continue to struggle to do. This was a very interesting story to read and it made it more realistic and understandable to this day and age. She did awesome!

This past week was a pretty good week. My other classes have been going well. I just need to keep up with them and try to stay ahead as best I can. This week I have been really focused on filling out all of my study abroad forms to finalize everything so I can be ready to leave in May. It’s a very stressful, but also very exciting event!

When I was writing my storybook post I used a lot of dialogue. I realized that I did not know a lot of words to use in the place of ‘he said’ or ‘she said.’ So naturally I Googled it and found this website that gives you tons of words to use instead. You should definitely check it out by clicking here.