Trying My Hand

Well I'm sure you all don't want to hear ANOTHER reason why I hate Mrs. Hodgins, but whatever I'm telling you anyways. It's because since we never did ANY creative writing the WHOLE year, I have lost my talent. I'm not trying to brag, but I used to be really good at writing, but now I suck!!!!! It's a horrible feeling, knowing you have the ability to do something somewhere inside you, but you don't know how to make it come out. It's like a beast! Like at first in second grade when I first started to recognize my love for writing, thanks to Mrs. Cummings, and continuing throught fifth grade, there was this writing beast that just thrashed around and random pieces of it would escape through my hands, wild and untamed and raw. But then around fourth and fifth grade, I was starting to control the writing beast and make it into real writing, good writing. And in sixth grade I perfected it, with help from Mrs. Peterfeso. So finally in seventh grade I was ready to go places, with this writing beast at my side, tame now, but we never wrote anything! And so the poor, obedient little writing beast was sad, because once I had calmed him I ignored him. But it wasn't my fault! And yes, I could have done creative writing on my own, but I was busy, as school can make you. So finally, after being ignored so much, the writing beast hid away somewhere inside, and now, though I've tried many times recently to find him, I don't know where he went. And I'm worried that when I do find my writing beast, he won't be the same. He'll be quieter, twisted by the strict writing rules of seventh grade language arts, twisted into something that resembles more a bunny than a beast.

So anyway, enough with that extremely long metaphor... oh wait I said like... that would be a simile.... ok whatever thank you internal Mrs. Hodgins radar... anyway I'm going to again try my hand at writing something, anything, and I WON'T DELETE ANYTHING! So if I start something and realize it sucks, I will leave it there, enter twice, and start over, so that you guys can see my progress. If there is any progress, that is.



Well right now I'm trying to think of a topic, so I will

All I can think of is topics for Halloween/horror stories.... Is that sick or because of that commercial for Jennifer's Body?


Idrissa. He wished his name actually applied to him. Immortal. Well, he didn't feel immortal, as hunger clawed at his stomach. Bitterly, he wondered how he could starve in a busy city such as this. Ahead, he spotted some French tourists buying roasted corn from Jawara, a corn roaster.

roasted corn from the corn roaster? hmmm..........

whatever, i'll leave it.

He ran up behind them and, keeping a safe distance, began to follow them. Sure enough, after a few bites of the hard, unsalted corn, they began to look around for a place to throw it away. Idrissa stepped up to them and politely asked for the corn and, feeling lucky, a little money too. A few Francs never did him any harm. Unfortunately, the tourists looked at him in confusion. So. He had been wrong; the tourists were American. He motioned to the corn and then himself, and then put on what he hoped was a convincingly hungry face. Not that he had to change much. The Americans, not used to so much poverty, readily gave them their corn, and one thousand Francs too. Idrissa noted to himself to make it a point to look for more Americans. One thousand Francs would feed him for at least three days, maybe four if he could stretch it out. For now, he took a bite of the roasted corn.

Ok, this is not going to so well......... ok, well I'm kinda tired (its twelve fifteen) so maybe I'll go watch a movie... (valkyrie? i wanted to see that and we have it on netflix) or else just sit in bed and play cards and whatnot....................... i'll try this writing thing again later........ but I STILL HAVENT FINISHED MY HOMEWORK FOR LANGUAGE ARTS AND I HAVE TWO DAYS TO FINISH IT AND THATS NOT REALLY WHAT MATTERS, WHAT MATTERS IS DO I REALLY WANT TO SPEND THAT LAST TWO DAYS OF SUMMER DOING HOMEWORK???????? NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT I GUESS THATS HOW ITS GONNA HAPPEN..... WHATEVER.... IT WONT BE THE WHOLE DAY I GUESS........ well anyway thats all.
bye!!!


ps today i say a meteor. falling from the sky. seriously. i know it was a meteor because it was going straight down and i could see even though it was really really far away and really really high that it was on fire for a little while, while it went through some part of the atmosphere. anyway, pretty cool right? i've seen one before so this is my second time but still, a meteor. i would laugh if it had aliens on it!!! they would become my friends. i would teach them english and they would protect from things that i needed protecting from. like other aliens. yaaaaaayyy!!!!! well bye!!!

pps wow this was a long post!!!