Short Story: The Writing Of

So I am about finished with my short story that I have thought up. My story's archetype is that of "overcoming a monster". The monster in my story happens to be a whole race; Goblins. This story takes place back during Ancient Earth which can be thought of as the same as Middle Earth( From the famous book and movie trilogy, "Lord of The Rings". The "good" guys in this story are the humans. The war between the two foes has been waging for three years and the final battle is about to be fought in the Gorgon Hills. This is about the point of where my story begins.

I am an avid fan of J.R.R Tolkien and his works. This is the reason I wrote about fantasy in ancient times. It just leaves so much open for your own imagination and creating something that has no rules is, in my opinion, the best type of writing there is. Though I will say that yes, this was not the easiest thing to write. Things such as making things flow along with describing things in words so that your audience will picture things as you are, are among the most difficult. The thing about short stories is that in order to make it short, you must leave out some details about characteristics, plot line, and key characters. You have to write so that the audience gets the feeling of that a character or situation is important to the final outcome of the story.

Now on the other hand, the easiest part of writing this is that you have complete openess to what you want to write. The is no rubric for certain things you have to have in it(other then dialogue). I think that when you have this option to just create what you want it makes is so easy to create scenarios that are interesting. When you start to write you get in the zone and kind of put yourself in the characters positions. You can picture your settings and characters so vividly which in my opinion makes it so easy to come up with dialogues and scenarios that the character's get in to. You take things that you have seen from things in your life and just apply it how you want to your story. For me, that type of writing doesn't get any better.

Those are the difficulties and easier aspects of writing a short story. Although the requirements for this was only eight pages, I believe that you cannot fit all the things you need to properly introduce characters, setting, and plot into eight pages. To me you need at least fifteen pages. I do not know whether mine will end up finishing with fifteen pages but I do know that it will be around that. So hopefully everyone that will read it will enjoy it and can make a connection with the characters and situations portrayed.

_Yockey

To Who This May Concern

To whom this may concern... I am currently typing a blog about what my situation is. Shall we call it a dilema. Well first off, there was a project due today in one of my classes. I did not finish this project but I came in late because of a medical appointment. My dilema is that he said you were suppossed to have someone else run your car, but I did not do that as well. So I am hoping that he will let me turn it in on Monday. Then to further make my situation worse, as I was walking to my 6th period class I saw him in the hallway. Yes, Awkward. No words were exchanged but I could sense that he wanted to say something. If he were to take points off since I didn't do it today I would be overjoyed. For having zero points is far worse then having 10 points taken off for being late.

That is what I have to say on the date of Friday, November 21st, in the year of 2008. Thank you for reading this my friends.

_Yockey

Der Aphorismus für mein Leben

The aphorism or saying that I can say I live by would be "Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do something, they tell you can't do something because they can't do it themselves." I think this quote is exceptional because it happens all the time. People don't like being outdone in certain things. They try to put you down so your on their level. And that's so selfish of people to do such a thing as that. I'm not going to say that I havn't done this before but for awhile now I have tried very hard to stay away from that. It's being very ignorant towards people's goals and wishes.
And I think that one of the most satisfying things is proving someone wrong. When someone tells you that your not going to be successful or achieve anything with what you have. When people say that and truly mean what they have said, that makes me work so much harder to prove them wrong. It's happened in many instances in my life and I can say that about 95% of the time I do prove them wrong. It may not be an immediate response, but I will complete what you say I can't in due time. If I were to truly set my mind on a goal and was willing to do anything to accomplish it, I assure you that it WILL be accomplished.
And when you do prove them wrong, the reaction you get is bliss. They realize they are wrong because they have no idea about your willingness to become what you want to become. They make assumptions because they think they know what your truly like, they may know you oh so little, but they still make outrageous comments about what you will and won't become.
Well I wouldn't say that that is an aphorism, more or a saying, that I live by. I got this idea from two places, one being, "The Pursuit of Happiness" and secondly " The Secret". The second movie mentioned is by far one of my favorite movies. It has changed my views on life and thinking so much. I'd advise you to see it.

Over and Out, _Yockey

Poems For The Soul

Opposites

The opposite of good is bad,

Like the opposite of happy is sad.

Sometimes it's fun to be both,

So be both, not just one, take an oath.

Sense Poem

Port-a-Potty

I see rear end cutting toliet paper

It tastes like thick steamy sweat.

It smells like feces

It sounds like pushing silly puddy into it's container.

It feels like being dirty and sweaty.

Port-a-Potty

Haiku

Summertime

All day in school I

Daydream about the summer days,

Waiting and wishing.

Cinquain Poem

$Money$

Cash

Smooth, Crisp

Loving, Spending, Wanting

It runs the world

Money.

Apology Poem

To All Kids...

I have stolen

the cookies

from the cookie jar.

The one that

all speak of

when we sing

aloud together.

I am sorry,

I love chocolate

chip cookies,

waiting to be eaten.

Life Choice

Why do we choose what we think is right

instead of choosing what we truly desire?

Like going to rob a bank at night

to obtain so much money you could retire.

Is it because of laws?

Or the punishments of your actions?

Well what i know is i want to be a Santa Clause

I want to do right, not become part of the selfish faction.

Yeah, I'm that cool. Laugh out loud.

Alright, well this is my first serious blog about me and the very interesting things I do in my life. I am trying my hardest to be as perfect as I can be because last blog I forgot that we had to use perfect grammar and I was scolded minutely for it. But I’ll just jump in here and talk about some of the things that I do in a normal day.
First off, I am a male student at Northview High School. I am a senior and play multiple sports. I would consider myself athletic if I had to describe myself, which I actually am doing. One thing that I enjoy most doing when I have free time would have to be playing videogames. I love first person shooter games like “Halo 3”. Make that Halo one through three. Best games ever made in my opinion. But I just bought a new game called “Geometry Wars”. Very legitimate game. Similar to the arcade game “Asteroids”, you are a small spacecraft flying around shooting different shapes. But it’s not as easy as it seems. The shapes are intelligent! The longer you live, the more difficult it becomes. And there are many game types to choose from. Awesome is a word that could describe the videogame. Oh, and they play some radical techno/trance music during so you get into the zone.
But we’ll go back to how mad I was when the stupid blog website deleted my blog that I worked on vigorously for a whole period. It was truly a work of art. I will never be able to write something so true and beautiful again. I shall name it, “ The Blog That Never Was”.
So finally I’ll end this blog with a shout out to all my friends, and to Mr. Ackerman because he is probably the only one that will read this. Oh, and possibly Colleen. And she’s super sweet. And she won our homecoming court, how amazing of her. But the bell has rung and to class I will go. Until next time.

_Yockey

Ahhhhh! I am blogging

Oh Jeez.... Im just so excited to be blogging. All i have to say right now is please look at rudy's blogging name. it is just baseball no caps.. no special font. el Oh El so ill be blogging throughout the semester. be sure to check out my other awesome blogs. :D