Blogging Assignment #9

VOICE:

The author of this "The Sound Of Your Voice" stated that breeziness, condescension, and clichés. First of all, when the author said the voice must be breezy, the author meant that the voice the writer is using should be confident in what he/she is saying. The author also admits that taste is very important for the writer. The author mentions that the voice is one thing that the reader will enjoy. Taste can sometimes visible in the writing very easily, but sometimes it is invisible, or hard to find. He mainly warns us to not be verbose and corny. Imitation is one thing that the author mentioned as a good skill of learning. Through imitating, the author says that you will learn different skills. Also, he says to be not afraid of using your own voice. Also, he admits that we writers should not be intimidated by what the reader's bad comments and thoughts.
After reading "The Sound Of Your Voice", I personally thought that what he said was mostly true. First of all, we should never be intimidated in what other people say. When we get intimidated, we usually lose confidence. However, we should be confident of our own voice because each of our voice is unique. Also, we should build up our own voice as well. This is why mostly I agree to the author's statements.

Blogging Assignment #8

1. What is voice? What makes a voice unique? How would you describe your writing voice?
- A voice is a sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing crying, screaming, etc. It is one of the main source on your body that can create sounds. In order to create the sound the lung must provide adequate airflow and air pressure to vibrate the vocal folds. However, the voice in the literary form is somewhat different. The voice that is used in the literary term is the language style used by the author to communicate to the reader or the audience. It is a very important term in literary because if the voice of a character in a story is misplaced, the story will be very boring and won't make sense. Your own unique style of language makes your voice unique, because everyone uses different styles of language. My writing voice would be very normal, just like an ordinary student.

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- Object: iPod

***I always have a usually day; I do most of the same things over and over again. I find out that I usually sing to SOMEONE when I get along with this GUY to HIS school. Also, when HE comes back home, I have to sing to HIM again. This is because he loves to listen to music. Not only music, I figured he also like to watch movies, some action, mystery, comedic, and many more. Sometimes, he plays the games that I originally had. I enjoy playing with him, but too much playing makes me faint.
***When we finally arrive home, I get a little bit of chance to rest my voice, when HE takes a shower. After that, I have to sing for him once more. HE rubs his finger along my belly trying to control the songs or use other features that I can use. Other times, HE watches movies. It is very interesting to notice how I can play the movie for HIM. When I play the movies too much, I get too tired, and sometimes I faint right away. Movies take more effort to play because, it uses high technology to run the system. Creating all the colors and the light, running all the pictures in process is a very hard job. That's when HE has to give me my juice and battery. When I get my juice and my battery, I sometimes learn new songs that HE gives me, or get new movies. Even though I sing everyday for HIM, I never get tired or bored of singing, no one will be able to accomplish the job I have intended to do. When I connect with my friend, I look through the public stores, and take a look at the famous songs and popular songs. One of the most place I got to is the Billboard. The Billboard site especially gives you a clear idea of what popular songs are these days. I connect with myself to the iTunes Store and find out the hit, popular, and famous songs and sometimes receive the songs. Many of my fellow Pod's users gain songs by using pirated songs. I figured this was saving money, but illegal.
***Today was a really bad day for me, I was squished into a big bag after I sang a song for HIM when we rode a car to HIS school. Through the whole time in the school, I was quiet, like a dead mouse for the whole time. This was terrible, I had to stay in this narrowed, cornered, black empty space with no light wrapped around my wires. When HE finally opened the bag, I was totally squished into one small piece of me. When I opened my eyes, I figured that I was in the library; the air conditioning wind hit with such force that the surface of my body became cool as ice. It felt so good to be back out in the open. Later on in the day, all I did was the usual, sing. And I probably think that I will have the usual days anyway...

Blogging Assignment #7/ Reflection

1.What are some of the aspects of narrative writing and did you like using them?
- One of the aspects I used in my narrative writing was to lead the story in a 1st person perspective. I was able to say "I". This means that I was able to introduce myself as a main character. Also, I was able to communicate my story from my own personal experience. This was way easier and comfortable for me to communicate my experience and what I learned from this experience. An idea that I liked from this writing I also liked was that it didn't always need to be like an essay. It could be more like a story. This was what I really liked about this writing project.

2.How did you determine what details were relevant and necessary to support your ideas?

- I determined what details I needed in this writing by taking a closer look at my topic. My topic was about the CO2 dragster. How I started it, and how it ended. I eventually brought up a moral through this event I had. Through using a moral, I had more things to communicate. Also, if I focused on my topic, the answer became clear; it was easier for me to concentrate on what to write. Also, I was able to determine whether the things I wrote were relevant and necessary to support my ideas if I tried to connect the ideas with my topic. Also, being very detailed helped me through writing the story.

3.How did you create a unique piece of writing?

- I was easily able to create a unique piece of writing because the experience I had was quite different with others. As everyone tells us, every one's experience is different, and their personal thoughts is different with people. Which this also means that their perspective is also different. Also, to make sure the experience is not so similar to other experiences, I added the moral, which was able change a bit of things, such as the experience, thoughts, and ideas.

4.How did you craft your writing to meet the audience expectations? What is easy or hard?

- To make my writing piece meet the audience expectations, I tried to make the story as detailed, funny, and interesting as possible. As I wrote the story, I had to make sure that the inappropriate stuff for the story had to be deleted. For the part where I had to make it funny and interesting. I had to try to remember the parts where my friends had said somethings that were funny. This was kind of hard for me even though the event was only a year away. I also had to think of the style of language I use, and the topic I use. If the topic was too familiar or cheesy, I had to change it, or if the style of language was like talking to a 1st grader, I had to consider that as well.

5.How did your personal experience and faith shape the way you told this story?

- My personal experience gave me a more clear idea of what I had to right. Since I had experienced what had happended in the event, I knew kind of what to right. I did take out some boring parts which might have been too long, but I didn't change the story at all. The basic event and the ideas were the same from my perspective. However, I would have adjusted how the story could flow, then the story might have been a little more better.

6.What would your life be like without the experience?

- If I didn't have this experience, I would have been more different from who I was right now. From this event, I found out what I was good at. Compared to other kids, I was better at using the carving tools, racing, and technology. This gave me a goal in my life. I had a dream and a goal since I found out what I was kind of good at.