Scavenger Hunt #6: Three Errors In An Article
- Weird phrase: “lorry driver girlfriend“
- there’s no editing in this writing: “their relationship was ‘on-off’ “
- Grammatical error: “She sobbed in the dock”. It should be “sobbed on the dock”.
Scavenger Hunt #5: Three Articles I Found Interesting
– The writer’s style is detailed and straightforward about the topic. Also the writer indicated some quotes pretty nicely, and have good research of Shakespeare’s new found compositions, which made the paragraph easy to understand and fascinating.
2. http://www.salon.com/2013/10/12/how_i_learned_to_sit_next_to_a_pond_and_watch_its_ripples_partner/
– What this article interests me is that it’s melancholy atmosphere throughout the article. Also the writer’s style is pretty descriptive and imagery on the location and the situation with the bears, in my own opinion.
3. http://www.salon.com/2013/10/11/end_the_pumpkin_spice_takeover_of_fall/
– The reason why I found this interesting is because of it’s delicious title “Pumpkin Spice”. The writing style is informal, due to the phrases “when the hell” and “big goddamn deal”. But it is pretty easy to read.
Scavenger Hunt #4. Five Adjective About the Writer’s Voice
- Ernest Hemingway
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1455.Ernest_Hemingway
– depressed, observant, melancholic, passionate, and mindful.
- Hunter S. Thompson
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Hunter+S.+Thompson&commit=Search
– brilliant, erratic, passionate, ingenious, and descriptive.
- Emily Bronte
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Emily+Bronte&commit=Search
– poetic, old-fashioned, self-effacing, logical, and descriptive.
- Margaret Atwood
– http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/margaretat392759.html
– descriptive, powerful, confident, metaphorical, and long sentences.
- J. D. Salinger
– http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger#Quotes_about_Salinger
– energetic, realistic, conversational, attentiveness, and descriptive.
- Dashiell Hammet
– https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16927.Dashiell_Hammett
– detective, political, dialogue, hard-boiled, and cynical.
- Jonathan Lethem
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Jonathan+lethem&commit=Search
– descriptive, realistic.
- Dave Barry
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Dave+Barry&commit=Search
– colloquial, easy-understanding, basic wording, logical
- James Joyce
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=James+Joyce&commit=Search
– confusing, weird, quick, repetitive, childish.
- Douglas Coupland
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Douglas+Coupland&commit=Search
– colloquial, statement, logical, realistic.
- Nick Hornby
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Nick+Hornby&commit=Search
– statement, realistic, long sentences, passion, modern.
- Chuck Palahniuk
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Chuck+Palahniuk&commit=Search
– odd, short-sentences, conversational, statement.
- Virginia Woolf
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Virginia+Woolf&commit=Search
– statement, easy-understanding, psychical, realistic, attentive.
- Raymond Chandler
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Raymond+Chandler&commit=Search
– short-sentences, statement, realistic, easy-understanding, modern.
- Kurt Vonnegut
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Kurt+Vonnegut&commit=Search
– short-sentences, straightforward, easy, conversational, statement
- Angela Carter
– https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Angela+Carter&commit=Search
– descriptive, statement, modern, conversational, established.
Scavenger Hunt #3. Ten Articles On Writers’ Voice
Ten Articles On Writers’ Voice:
– http://journals.sfu.ca/sfuer/index.php/sfuer/article/viewFile/68/68
– http://goinswriter.com/writing-voice/
– http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2009/08/the-writers-voice/
– http://www.dailywritingtips.com/a-writer%E2%80%99s-voice-is-all-about-choice/
– http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/09/the-writers-voice.html
– http://humansareweird.com/2013/04/08/developing-your-writers-voice/
– http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/glossary/g/voice.htm
– http://hollylisle.com/ten-steps-to-finding-your-writing-voice/
– http://brenleedrake.blogspot.ca/2013/04/the-writers-voice-details.html
Ten key points:
– “voice” means an original, an author who is like no others.
– To set your voice free, set your words free. Set your characters free. Most important, set your heart free.
– Your voice is yourself in the story.
– The intersection between inner speech and external create write’s voice.
– Spend time analyzing stories or articles you like and jot down the details.
– The right voice makes the work accessible; it gives us the tone and point of view that best illuminate the material and make it shine.
– Let the voice do the job for you in the material in order to tell itself.
– Voice is not only the about the topics, the details, but the the passion for the subject matter, and the fortitude of opinion.
– We must understand ourselves, our personality, and the building materials that have gone into the construction of the edifice we are today.
– Every person has their own unique voice inside them.
Scavenger Hunt #2: Article About “Style” From The University of North Carolina
After reading this article about “style” in writing, I found out that there are several points I need to work on. Such as grammar and style are the two main points for me. The reasons are that in many of my writing I lack of style, always mess up with the keys I want to say and lost my goal in the writing. Many people misunderstand what I try to express. Another point is my grammar. Grammar is always my problem in any of my writing. Too wordy, wrong verbs at the wrong places, also overuse some prepositional phrases, which make the writing pretty awkward. In short, I still have many things to learn to improve my writing.
Scavenger Hunt #1: My Ten Quotes…
My Ten Quotes
- That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy. It will make you think, it will tap innto your hidden emotions, and it can make you cry. The power of a story can also bring about healing, give you peace, and change your life! — Jeff Dixon
- I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ― Tahereh Mafi
- There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenback
- No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot participate in that truth, then I have failed. — Madeleine L’Engle
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. –Virginia Woolf
- If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. — Stephen King
- If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. – Lillian Hellman
- If you don’t keep and mature your force and avove all have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. … Otherwise, what might be strength is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation. You will write about life, but never life itself. — Sarah Orne Jewett
- You have to love writing, but more importantly, you have to love learning to write better.– Jim Averback
- You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black
Scavenger Hunt #1: The Quote That …
That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy. It will make you think, it will tap innto your hidden emotions, and it can make you cry. The power of a story can also bring about healing, give you peace, and change your life! — Jeff Dixon
The reason why I agree with this quote is because whenever i read a story, no matter what kind it is, it always amazed me and brings me all kinds of joy and laughter. Also some emotions that I resist to show others, such as sadness, tears, and awe. Thus, this is why I agree with this author’s quote, he speaks the true inside me.
Birthday Dinner Under the Candle Lights
In the 1933, there is the Great Depression. Many people work hard everyday to earn a living for their themselves and families. And there is a young lady, who is from the middle class society. She is a hard working girl in her age, never miss a day to go to the textile factory with her friends, even though her job is not easy.
It’s her everyday routine, she gets up from bed, brushes her perfect, white teeth, combs her hair and picks an outfit to wear to work. She chooses a beautiful full-lengthed, puffed red sleeves dress, with some red buttons and a waist-bend. The girl doesn’t usually wear a dress to her workplace, but today is her birthday, she decides to look her very best for just one day. What’s special about the dress is not only its puffed sleeves, but the buttons down the front. The buttons are in round shapes. On the buttons, they have unique designs that looks like two small seashells, divided by a vase-liked shape.
The owner of this particular dress is a young, elegant woman, who is turning twenty years old, and is going to have a birthday dinner with her boyfriend. She’s a well-mannered and kind-hearted lady, who doesn’t often get angry and slow to anger to other; also, she is rarely known to gossip. She has beautiful brown hair that glistens in the sun, which many girls admired.
When she leaves her house for work, the weather is perfect and perfect for a perfect birthday. On her way to work, neighbours and people from the streets waved ‘hello’, ‘good morning’, and even ‘happy birthday’ to her. Everybody likes her very much because of her good personality and behaviors. And that’s why her fiancee adores and loves her in all his heart. When she arrives the factory, her friends come up to her with gifts and congratulate her for turning into adulthood, then they all go back to their stations, including the girl. Nothing in particular happens during her shift, only the ordinary process, making buttons in all types of style and colours, like oval, orange, square, black, and other kinds of buttons. However, she made the red buttons that is on her dress, and they represent the her style in fashion.
Time passes quickly, and it’s almost seven o’clock. The time for date is at seven thirty, which means she has thirty minutes to get to the restaurant, Loyaly Day. Before she leaves the factory, she goes to the washroom to clean and tidy herself up, so she doesn’t look all beat-up. After a few minutes, she called a cab and leaves right away. When arrives at the five-starred restaurant, a waiter guides her to her boyfriend’s reserved cabin. The place is well-decorated in fancy chairs and tables, and some fine rugs on the floor. Everything seems splendid, and her boyfriend is smiling warmly at her when she walks in the room. The waiter gives them each a menu to decide what they want for the night. The girl ordered a pasta with a glass of red wine. As for the young gentleman, he ordered a grilled chicken with some vegetable and also a glass of red wine.
There is an awkward but comfortable silence at the same time, in the cabin because the young couple don’t know what to say to each other at that moment. It happens to them many times, but they’re getting better and better whenever they are on a date. Finally, when the food are served and the candles are lit, the atmosphere turned from awkward to warm and cozy. The food is delicious and the place is beautiful like what she imagined before she came here. Suddenly, the boy coughs and catches her attention. He stands up from his seat and walks toward her. In his hands, there is a small box, which is the size that can only fits for a small-sized necklace. He hands the box to the girl, and she accepted then asks him ‘what is this?’ As she glances down at the box, on top of it says “Happy Birthday, my Sweetheart!”. Her boyfriend tells her to open up and find out herself. She opens the lid and reveals a sparkling, golden heart locket with her name carved on the surface; it also has some elaborated rose designed carving all around the surface. She is already surprised by the expensive gift, but what comes after is even more surprising. The young man whispers ‘I love you. Will you marry me and stay with me forever?”
Inside the girl’s heart, she is elated that her boyfriend has finally proposed to her. But because she is too shocked to trust her voice, she could only nod and kisses her fiance on his lips. He kisses her in return and take the kiss as a yes. Their love aura surrounds them in the room, and the candle lights on the table beam like any other stars in the cloudless sky.
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