Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Maya Angelou--Writer's Dream

Talking about bad dreams or "feeding" into something may give those things power. You end up talking about it more and more, and then they're always at the top of your mind. If there is drama and a person talks about it all of the time, it gets even bigger. It becomes more of a situation and is always on your mind. Sometimes it is good to talk about, but only if you talk to the right person. It will help because you can get your feelings out and they aren't bottled up inside. Venting about a problem to the correct person or just someone you can trust is always helpful.
Dreams can reveal the truth about us. Some dreams can be surprising and not ordinary; those are the dreams that reveal the most. Whenever someone has a absurd dream it could mean there's something on their mind, and the things in the dream all represent something. Reoccurring dreams can also reveal truths about a person.
Angeleou didn't talk for almost five years that is something I could not do. I could stop talking all day if I wanted, that's not a difficult skill to acquire. People would start considering you rude if you didn't talk to them or ignored them. Being rude to people is something I learned to avoid. I think I talk just the right amount, but whenever I get hyper, not so much. I used to not talk much at all, sometimes I still do not. I'm a reserved person and I like to be laid back. If I learned to listen more and talk less, I'd learn a heap about other people's problems and different situations. I'd be able to be there more for people than complain about more of my hardships. I could grow more as a person if I spoke more by speaking up in class. I would like to be part of more classroom discussions, which would be useful. I would like to speak up in some classes whenever I need help.
The only language I would be comfortable in is my own. I took three years of Japanese, but I was not ever fully comfortable speaking the language. If I would be to choose languagees to be fluent in they would be, Japanese, German, Spanish, and French. I'd be able to speak and understand my grandmother more if I were to be fluent in Japanese. My brother took German, so it'd be cool to be fluent in that language, it's different. Spanish is a language that is getting more common in the U.S. French is just a language I would like to be fluent in just for fun, in case I ever travel to France I would like to communicate with the people there.
I agree when Nathaniel West says, "Easy reading is damned hard writing, writing is just hard work, you know?" When you're trying to let readers inside of your mind, it is hard. Connecting to a reader takes an ounce of effort. The easiest thing about writing is getting ideas and having them flooding out of your mind whenever you get a prompt. A difficult concept to grasp for me is transferring these ideas to paper and getting my thoughts organized. If your thoughts aren't organized and the ideas are great, you still get a not so good result. Depending on what you are writing, it could be considered hard work, or maybe even who you are might determine that. If I have a prompt that I really enjoy, it is not much hard work, besides the editing and revisions.

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