This is the Creative Writing Final

Please answer these questions in a New Post on your blog.  Number each of your answers and answer in complete sentences/paragraphs that reference the question so we can easily see which one you’re answering.  This should be a rather lengthy post to earn the entire  80 points.  Include 2 images.

1. List/discuss several of the different pieces of writing you’ve done this quarter, including posts, comments, creative pieces, journals, in-class writings, and things you’ve written on your own.
2. Name/discuss a couple of pieces you’ve read this quarter, including other classmates’ work and/or reading you’ve done in or out of class.
3. Write about setting up your blog and what you have gotten from that experience.  How did you come up with the name for your blog? Will you continue to use it on your own in the future?  What kinds of things will you post?
4. Write about journaling.  What kinds of things are in your journal?  Who would you want to read it?  Will you continue to journal?  What will you write about? 
5. Type an entry directly from your journal that you consider notable.  It could be a paragraph or a page or so.  You don’t have to explain it, but you could.
6. Type or copy/paste a passage or section directly from one of your pieces of writing that you consider notable or your favorite that you’ve written.  It could be a section or a whole piece.
7. What creative writing do you plan to do in the future, if any?  What do you get out of writing creatively?  How does this differ from the other writing you do, in school and in life?
8. Some final words of encouragement, appreciation, inspiration, etc. for your fellow writers you’ve worked with this quarter...
9. COPY and PASTE your answer to #8 as a COMMENT on as many of your classmates' final blog posts as you can.  

{Writing} About a Boy

Use one or more of these prompts inspired by the film About a Boy (based on the novel by Nick Hornby) to write in your journal if you still need entries (journal due tomorrow with 10 new pages):

• "No man is an island." (John Milton, not Bon Jovi)
• What is the point to your life?
• godfathers/godmothers
• Single Parents Alone Together
• "I am not a sheep."
• kids are cruel
• "Did you know when I was born I would be a vegetarian?"
• lies are hard to keep track of
• when children have to "look after" their parents
• going to work=having a purpose in life
• such a thing as too much free time?
• kids see through adults' games and BS
• "It happens, and I wish it didn't, but that's life, isn't it?"
• new shoes=cool
• holding a cigarette=cool
• family dynamics at holiday gatherings
• "He thinks he knows what kids need:  expensive footwear and vulgar music."

P.S. The actor playing Marcus grew up to play this character...
Recognize the recent film that some say is a twist on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?