Rache Writes

Wow, it's so crazy that it's the end of the semester already. Junior year is flying by. This week, I took a ton of time to go look through other people's blogs and see all the cool work everyone has done. I wish I had more time to revise my project, but I'm also happy with the work I did this semester as well. Again, crazy that this is my last post. I don't think my story for this week (my final story) was my best, but it completed the three aspects of my storybook that I was really wanting to cover. Writing in first person like that was a very new experiment, and one that definitely helped me be more creative in other aspects of my life and academics. Right now I'm working on a 25 page final paper for another class, and I don't think I would have taken some of the creative turns that I have without the brainstorming and processes of this class. Most of my finals happen during dead week for me this semester, so we're in the home stretch. I've d...

This week, although I enjoyed the Native American unit, I actually enjoyed my extra credit reading more. I'm not sure if it's because of the HEART post I did with it that required me to read it aloud, or if it was the subject matter. The moral dilemma of the Chinese story of the fake sacrifices to the river god is really sticking with me. I'll probably end up doing my story retelling this upcoming week over it. I didn't really do any writing for this class this week, as I did a StoryLab and revisions instead. I have to say, I feel a lot better about my story after completing revisions and looking at comments from classmates on what I have so far. I'm thinking I might try to get the next two completed in one go before my other classes pick up too much speed, and while I'm feeling good about the story as a whole. I feel like I've read some really excellent writing this week in class, and most of them had to do with choosing unexpected narrators. While I ca...

The past couple of weeks I've definitely fallen behind due to being sick. This week, I only completed half of the reading, which is unfortunate because I was excited for this section. I think I may use the extra credit reading in a future week to go back and revisit this week's sections. I remember the reading that I did complete was strange and that it left me wondering if it actually conveyed any moral lesson, and who the audience for that story was. I definitely want to revisit those ideas in future storytelling. Sadly, I also didn't complete the storytelling assignment for this week so I'll have to remember to come back to this later in the semester. This week I had to write a strategy brief for an advertising campaign for my ad copy class. Normally I hate copywriting with a passion–I'm much better at art direction and academic writing. However, I think I nailed that assignment and that I might finally be getting the hang of a solid copywriting strategy. As fo...