Blog #3

1. Congratulations! You wrote your first play. Reflect on your experiences here in paragraph form. Be sure to including explanation for your ideas. Write at least 75 words.
Some things to consider are:
What limitations about the form did you find frustrating?
What strengths did you see in the form?
What pleasant surprises did you find in writing a play?
What unpleasant surprises did you find in writing a play?
Would you ever be interested in attempting drama writing or any of its sister forms, screenplays or television scripts? Explain.



2. If you could give advice to a kid who was 5 years old or 10 years old (pick one), what advice would you give him or her on growing up in today's world? Would you give advice based upon your own experiences? Would you give advice based upon what you see in others? Would your advice be based on their thoughts, their choices, peer issues, school? Explain your advice and why you give it. Write at least 100 words.

If i were to give a 10 year old child advice about growing up in todays world the advice would be long and harsh, but realatable. One of the things I would tell them would be to stay positive even when things look horrible. My parents got divorced when I was about that age and it was beyond horrible. But thankfully I knew to look at the brighter side of things and I'm glad I did; it really helped. Another thing I would advise them on is staying healthy. Being and staying healthy at young stages in your life is very important for your future. If you form bad eating and excercising habits early on you'll end up having to be fork lifted off of your living room couch, and you think I'm exaggerating. And excercing can be fun! I have played soccer all of my life and its such a good way to meet people, stay in shape and have more fun than you could ever imagine from sitting on the sidelines. These are just a few things I would say, but they are definetely important.


3. Great works of literature can last a long time. Jane Austen's novels (including Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility) are still popular almost 200 years after they were first published. Anne Bradstreet's poems have survived about 400 years. The works of Greek playwright Euripides (who wrote Medea) have survived for over 2000 years. What do you think causes great literary works to live forever? Could you ever foresee yourself writing something that lasts that long? (Write at least 75 words.)

I think there are a few contributing factors that help a literary work "live" for so long. One is that is relateable throughout time. Many of the works that are still mentioned today include stories of love, loss or a fued. Love and war are big contenders because everyone can read and understand, to an extent, what it is they are talking about and how it relates to their everyday life. Losing something that is precious to one may also survive because everyone knows what it is like to lose something, be it a person, an object or a feeling or emotion. I could never write, nor would I want to write something that would last 400 years because I would not want tmy work to be studied in classrooms or any other form of education. The only time I would ever want my pieces of work recognized so long from now would be some what of a Egyptian type thing where people find my work after thousands of years. Thats the only point at which I, from beyond the grave, would feel comfortable with it. And even so, I dont think any of my works would be memorable enough to last so long or be relevant.