I believe it all begun when Lacy wanted each individual in the class to think about a story we can reveal literacy in. I felt like if I was to go creative I should make my literacy look real. For example, sensory details are such a factor. I want to write about something important in my life. To give off the exact atmosphere of when it happened on text. My focus on this literacy narrative was not to force myself to write, but to enjoy writing about something I loved. I was sitting in the library narrowing my choices down and it came down to one. "My experience at Lake Wylie"
I knew that this was what I was looking for all along. I love camping. I love smelling the scent of the forest. And most important, I love it when the lake is so peaceful. I actually wish one day I can own my own lake house. It would be so superb and unreal.
As I was writing, I begin to imagine how it was at the lake recently. I put myself in a memory where I was at Lake Wylie one weekend over the recent summer. I wrote down everything as much as possible, trying to grasp that moment. Every second of it counted. I wrote and wrote and wrote until I couldn't think of anything else to reminisce. The hardest part about thinking about the whole moment is distinctively small things, such as exactly where I was.
Although I finished about three pages of my first draft, I felt like something was missing. Earlier in the semester, I remember hearing two stories in my english class. One was called "Mother Tongue", by Amy Tan. The other was a video by Ira Glass with him explaining the use of an anecdote. Both of these stories were two amazing piece of art that I admired so much so I wanted to use their ideas in my story. This required me to write a second draft for my literacy narrative. Amy Tan inspired me so much because in "Mother Tongue", she tells a story about part her life and showed that no matter how different things may be, right or wrong, just reach for the stars. I begin to do that as I write, seeing what was most valuable and less valuable of my memory at Lake Wylie and turning it into something as a piece of artwork. To do that, I wanted to use a anecdote, who Ira Glass explains to well about. An anecdote was going to help me have different catalogues. It was actually going to help me be at Lake Wylie. How does the air smell? How does the ground feel? It was coming to me.
I sent both my first draft and second draft to my english teacher, Lacy Manship. She commented on both of my pieces, and I knew what I had to do. I then combined my first draft with my second, putting it together and making sure things were aligned. It was harder to re-write these pieces together than it was to write two drafts, because I had to connect one moment to another, and that took time. I finished up writing the final draft in the school library, and a victory shout was in my head.
This project wasn't bad at all because I actually was able to create such a vivid imagination of an important memory and put it on text. I usually don't write much either. It felt so awesome writing this piece of art, something I can consider a real art from me. I felt that this assignment probably gave me more to search for when I'm at the lake next time.
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