Part Duex

This is just as, if not more, hilarious.
Yes it is.

I know its supposed to be sound, but I'm adding video; so there!

This is hilarious period
If you disagree, you are wrong

Blog #4: Fiction

I found that writing about fiction was really interesting and made me think a alot about the elements of the story and it helps to make the story more enjoyable. Writing fiction on the other hand was just fun. It was fun to come up with a persona that was like me in a way but not like me in others. It was cool to make the character use the dorky jokes that I wouldn't neccesarily use. Actually, I probably would say the dorky jokes anyway.

I'm not sure what impact writing about fiction had on my fiction writing because I have spent the last two years writing about fiction and not really writing a lot of fiction. At any rate, this writing about fiction didnt have much of an effect on my story but I imagine the last two years of writing about fiction has in some ways. I certainly am familiar with the elements of fiction but in my writing I didn't think much about that. All I really thought about was being at least a little funny and therefore interesting. I used the circumstances prompt and tried to make all the detail unnecessary or at least, strange. I got a kick out of it.

I will surely have my students write about fiction in my classes but I might not use the writing of actual fiction in all my classes. I do think that it helps to understand the elements of fiction and how they are used which could make reading it more interesting for students but I don't think that I will always need to make it more interesting as long as they can relate to it in some way.

Blog #3: Myths

Creating a myth, much as creating poetry, helped me to understand how the elements of mythology work together. More so than from just reading mythology, which i am known to do. I think a lot of people learn better by doing than just be studying, or at least they learn some other element than they would just by studying something. So creating mythology serves to broaden my understanding of it. It also helps me to become engaged in it. Mythology is already an interesting subject to me and this puts me in the middle of it which makes me more interesting to me. And I'm already a fan of me.

Besides being informative, writing mythology is really a fun writing exercise because it is not governed by the same literary rules that I am used to in academic writing. Suspension of reality and disbelief can be at an extreme because its ok to be completely magical and un-real. At the same time, plot structure and even grammar can be played with because things don't necessarily have to flow perfectly from one thing to another. Much mythology has somewhat difficult to follow plot lines and a lot of those old crazy people didn't know anything about grammar anyway.

I would use this in a classroom to get students thinking about mythology and get interested in it. Like the found poems, mythology can be a safe way to be creative while not having to be overly self-conscious because its just a crazy myth. Students can have fun with it and create some strange magical stories that don't even have to make that much sense. It can get them writing and even having fun with writing. Also, as I said before, actually doing it can help them to gain a fuller understanding of the elements of mythology and how they work together in the actual stories.

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