As I look back through my first blag posts, I think to myself, "This is as boring as watching paint dry with Gordon Brown!" I was really formal and uptight. Although I do pride myself on my extensive vocabulary, I do not talk in the fashion of ostensibly stuck up people when I use my verbose manner of speech. Rather, I talk like a babbling fool with a dictionary, who happens to accidentally say the right big words. Overall, my blags go from constrained and formal to silly and entertaining enough to read. I remember not enjoying writing my blags very much at the beginning of the year, but now it is a veritable metric bucket of fun. I can see, as the year goes on, my influence by humor columnist Dave Barry manifests itself, and I become a little less intelligible, and a little more like my real self. Also, I accumulated readers from elsewhere. At first, I thought, "Oh noes, my work is going on the Internet, for all the world to see! I must sound sooper sophisticated," but as the year wore on, that thought was replaced by, "It's 3 in the morning; no big words for me." Even though it was probably bad for me to do my blags at such an hour, it actually helped me lighten up and loosen the shackles I forged for myself. I then realized that writing can be really fun. I never really enjoyed writing as a child, even though my teachers told me I was good at it. Now, I can be myself, and use dry humor, ALL CAPS, crazy metaphors, and elevated speech all at once, like I do when speaking, of course substituting all caps with shouting every now and then. This experience might even teach me to write more in the future.
My blag posts began this metamorphosis starting with my third, "The Late Short Stories Show", posted at 3:07 AM. I was real tired and a bit loopy from being up so late, so I decided to make it more humorous. My next one, "The 1930's. Eww." had more of a dry style of humor in it, since it was at an earlier hour, but after what I shall call the Humor Revolution. My third post-revolution post, "To Pwn a Mockingbird: First Impressions" was really rather short and contained little humor or big words. On that one, I think I just didn't fee like writing. Actually, in retrospect, my To Kill a Mockingbird posts are pretty boring and uninformative. HMM. I WONDER IF THAT MIGHT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE SOURCE MATERIAL? Once I'm done with all that, I have "The Year After the Previous Year To This Year That Is Not The Old Year". What was I thinking with that title? The blag post itself, however, is pretty spiteful, actually. At that point in the year, I'm weary of so much work, since I have been metaphorically running for a long time and the metaphorical finish line is still out of my metaphorical sight. Now, I'm on the metaphorical home stretch, and I'm metaphorically sprinting as fast as I am able. My next post, the first one about Great Expectations, is one that I am particularly proud of. My ORIGINAL invention, that I came up with in a couple of hours, is actually a really good one. I know exactly how I would make it, and it would be very effective. I might actually try to build it over the summer. After this post, I settle into another generic stretch, much like my To Kill a Mockingbird posts. AGAIN, WHAT COULD THAT INDICATE? MAYBE GREAT EXPECTATIONS IS A TAD DULL? No, that's not possible. When we move on to Romeo and Juliet, my posts become better. I enjoyed R&J, but it was very hard to read. Failure is funny from a third person perspective, though, so it was more fun to blag about. And my own vocabulary compared to that of my peers in my non-honors classes is a joke in its own right, so the Word Power post was my absolute favorite as both a reader and writer. As for the last line, you just try writing with "Hearts on Fire" from Rocky playing in the background and not write anything like that.
Mia, my sister, said that Honors English would make me hate writing.
Nope.
Thanks, unconstrained writing assignments.
In addition, thank you, Mrs. Gilman, for a great year of English. Also, please do not discount my analysis due to jokes in this post. That's what it is all about.
"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step" -Lao Tzu
I'm almost done with what I consider to be the first year of my serious education.
It was a pretty good step. I'm ready for the next 1,318,680.
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