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Except I've been bullied since first grade
I'm so sorry Raven and Shine. I hope those people leave you alone from here on out. If people bully you on here, feel free to get help from us :) But the Goodreads staff I've found are very responsive, so they could also help with those users.
Hallie I have great news! I'm on the committee for the literary magazine now!!!!! :DNot only did they say it was okay for me to join them- they joked about preventing me from leaving because they need more members!
I'll come back later to tell you more when I get done with my monstrous load of work- unfortunately, there was no competition for the question "what's the best thing that happened to me today" because otherwise it was just stressful :/
Hope you can sleep okay!
Alia [permanent semi-hiatus] wrote: "Hallie I have great news! I'm on the committee for the literary magazine now!!!!! :DNot only did they say it was okay for me to join them- they joked about preventing me from leaving because they..."
CONGRATS
Thank you Kavy! :) I'm looking forward to how it'll go! And I see the potential and the room for growth already here. :)Admittedly I thought getting involved in the editing and production part would require more effort and time than that needed to walk into a specific classroom on a set date. XD
But I'm not complaining! My teacher Mr. Knox didn't even know there was a meeting going on, he just said to speak to the adviser in his room... and I happened to walk in on an actual meeting, not just him!
Hallie, you will be surprised to know that there were only four other people at the meeting if you discount the teacher. XD It's very small. That's why the teacher was pretty excited. But these four couldn't be more different. Proof that writers come in all shapes and sizes. :)
Pretty sure there are a couple more members who couldn't make it.
We discussed whether we should give detailed or general feedback on submissions. The consensus was to have general feedback and more specific grammar corrections (except for poetry). And also to ask people if they want feedback to begin with. Then we went on to methods of encouraging students to submit- in the end, we're relying on certain teachers and a few flyers.
I can't believe it! By February I'll be giving feedback on people's writing!!! :D
Thanks Val! :D
Wow yay Alia!!!! :D Congrats! I knew you'd get in! :) Four? Really four?!
Shine and Raven, I'm sorry :( I guess I can't speak much because I might have been a bully.
eeeeeeeeeyy boi what's good?sorry to like spam you but if you're still awake i could really use some help a bit editing my essay that i have up on the newest page of my journal! i just need a few extra pairs of eyes to look it over for me because i feel really self conscious about it and i kinda think it sucks so any criticisms you might have (if you'd like to check it out no pressure) it would be great to hear from you!
if not, that's fine too ^-^
*jaw drops* That would be an honour! I'm not that good at critiquing, so it's absolutely fine if you ignore it. But I'd love to look at it!!! :D
i will take any critiques with grace and humility.and i'm not finished yet, it's just whether the start of it seems like a good college application essay
here's the link directly to the comment
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Can u help me make a character for Vanderbilt? Nd i wanna borrow ur template.
Hallie wrote: "Wow yay Alia!!!! :D Congrats! I knew you'd get in! :) Four? Really four?!"Thanks! Haha! XD Yep four! So I didn't have to prove myself. Was very, very shy actually. The way I always am when meeting new people. Though I share a class period with one of the four!
You're alive, Sarah :/ Whatever.
Alia! I honestly expected more xD You'll get to know them anyway.
Maybe I shouldn't run down the stairs looking at my phone xP
Uh yeah me too. XD I guess your school has more writers. Well admittedly we do have a lot of writers in newspaper class (but a lot of them are not in the literary magazine) and then we've got Mr. Knox's favorite students in yearbook. According to him though the class is mostly focused on pictures with the occasional piece of writing. :/I suppose I will! Well I already know two at least. But most of them are seniors! What will happen next year?!
In general, my school is very STEM oriented. It's not a specialized school, but you can't deny it. Biology is verrry popular. And then of course there are athletics.
We have some amazing teachers in both the humanities and sciences, but many more people are into science. And the arts too. I love the arts. Don't get me wrong! I'm a proud orchestra member. But in the midst of this, writers aren't that prevalent.
The other problem is that due to Common Core, English classes nowadays are evidence-based and don't encourage creativity so much... you won't get many writers from that! It could be argued that even Mr. Knox's method of almost all discussion strays greatly from the norm- templates and outlines.
Maybe. I don't know. I've only met one writer till now, but you know my socialization skills xP There could be more because when I applied for the magazine committee, it had over a hundred only for reporting. They then picked 22, and then short-listed them. But pictures don't make everything! Er Biology! Sounds like my school now xD Sciences have more people. Writers being a rarity sounds strange to me, though. Why wouldn't people but write? xD
Why do so many people have that reaction when I say Biology? xD I find it interesting because I like medical stuff.
Ugh I'm back to square one now :/ Depressed and suicidal.
Valentine Ransom (call me Val) ~Phantom of the Library~ wrote: "I like the medical aspect too. Just not all the other stuff."I don't like Botany a lot, but I love the rest (even dissecting cockroaches xP)
Hallie wrote: "Maybe. I don't know. I've only met one writer till now, but you know my socialization skills xP There could be more because when I applied for the magazine committee, it had over a hundred only for..."Interesting! Well I can't judge unless I actually see them in person. I doubt they are that bad. WOW! 100 people?!?!?!? :O Okay no that's probably never happened in the history of this school district, never mind my school alone. It's true but more people know how to take pictures than write... Snapchat. XD
At this school, you take the newspaper or yearbook as a class, and literary magazine is a club. I think for the newspaper you need an A or B in English and a recommendation letter from your current teacher. As for yearbook, you just need to make sure you know who doesn't hate you!
I would do the newspaper next year but I want to be on par with my peers and take an AP class instead... looks better to colleges. However, they could use an editor. One person wrote "demolishment" rather than "demolition" in their story, and a word repeated many times in an important announcement about the paper was missing a letter. Oops XD
I like some parts of bio but others not so much. Depends really. We are in genetics now and I really like them!
I don't know why people don't write. Likely never crossed their minds. Most develop a dislike because they aren't taught well. I'm lucky because of the million books I read and genetic affinity for it. I paint myself as so unique but I'm actually just a conformist within a writing family. XD
I should be asking you: why are so many at your school into writing?
Valentine Ransom (call me Val) ~Phantom of the Library~ wrote: "What secret dream (or is it staying secret)?"I'll tell you I suppose... I'm actually eager. My dream is to create a network of young writers in my community. Bring everyone together: the political enthusiasts, those like me up until now who have kept the secret of their writing, and people looking for a gap to fill a void in their creative minds.
As I've been saying to Hallie, my school doesn't have many writers. However, another high school appears to have quite a few. I would like to plan it in the summer, get some adults involved, and use a local space that supports anything related to literature pretty much.
So yeah. My dream :)
Thanks! :) It might be impossible but I'm not discarding it just yet.
Hey Hals, I'm thinking of making a group for writing competitions?
Alia wrote: "Hallie wrote: "Maybe. I don't know. I've only met one writer till now, but you know my socialization skills xP There could be more because when I applied for the magazine committee, it had over a h..."I don't know whether they applied for skipping class (or if they were like me, skipping lunch), but there was a lot of names for reporting itself. Photographers had an even bigger line, though. Lol xD
Ours is just decided with auditions xP Uh that error doesn't sound like something I'd be able to accept (OCD like problem here).
I don't know. I have no clue who write and who don't, but my school does have a reputation. So we actually have people good at all fields, and since there are so many students attending, it's not that surprising.
❄️Ƙανу тнє ναмριяє❄️ (Ɓνвαяму) (Aelonian) (AA family) wrote: "Hey Hals, I'm thinking of making a group for writing competitions?"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! You should do it!
maggie wrote: "hallie i edited a bit if you wanna check it out again ^-^https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
I'll check it out, but it might be a while.
And I flunked my Biology paper, but seems like it won't be much of a problem because they are less likely to correct it.Besides, I just came to know that I passed in Math!! Woohoo!
But I'm going to keep it a secret from my parents.
That we got the results.
My friends and I went to eat :) The bus left already, so we're taking the subway.
Hallie Mr. Knox just told our whole class that we can't write! But being who he is, he didn't criticize us, just pointed out things he noticed in this 1 page paper we did. And ranted about the middle school English classes and how they don't teach us to really write. Which is true. We are getting the grades back on Tuesday and I'm soooo nervous... apparently he was lenient with the grading but my thesis statement was ridiculously unclear because he didn't really direct us towards having a clear one. He just thought we know. Apparently a meh student surprised him by having a clear one and a great paper. Perfectionist Alia is not happy! I told him I was a writer and now he's probably gonna be thinking "yeah right" :(I guess I can't blame myself totally when all I've done is formatted writing for school and fiction and poetry, but still. Uh I want to be a good writer!
He did put feedback on it so I do look forward to reading and internalizing it.
(Sorry for this I just needed to tell someone!)
I'm sorry I did not say this but congrats on your results!! :)
Hallie wrote: "And I flunked my Biology paper, but seems like it won't be much of a problem because they are less likely to correct it.Besides, I just came to know that I passed in Math!! Woohoo!"
CONGRATS
Oh my gosh, Alia! I'm actually thinking you did do well. My teachers deliberately never told that there was one certain person who did extremely well even though she criticized all of us for doing bad, and yet I somehow got on top of everyone else. To be honest, I'm hoping the same will happen to you because you are a good writer.
My results aren't actually that great. It's only average, so I don't I deserve those felicitations.
Sick, delusional and depressed - that's who I am.I'm sure if I stay on here for long, I'll be picking fights with majority of the people on Goodreads. But that means I'm most likely going to kill myself, so unless Mum doesn't recommend drinking the cough syrup, I'll be dead.
It's the other way: I'm going to fight with you even though you're my friend.
Not really. You haven't seen the aggressive side of me. I get really offensive, so you'll hate me and stop being friends with me.
I'm serious, Val. I've done it a couple of times before and it ended with me being blocked from a group. Nope, nothing.
Hallie wrote: "Oh my gosh, Alia! I'm actually thinking you did do well. My teachers deliberately never told that there was one certain person who did extremely well even though she criticized all of us for doing ..."I swear that this time I'm not convinced. But I can't blame myself 100%. This was an in class assignment that we had a day and a night to do. I spent weeks on another one of his writing assignments and basicslly got a completion grade because the bigger grade is for an assignment I'm doing over this three day weekend! So unlike in every other class the timeframe is not proportional to the grade or how harshly we'll be graded. I like that class but uh! I suppose I should have known that even he would care more about a paper on an issue than a creative writing assignment.
Aw that story sounds so sweet :) I'm so glad you did well! I have a feeling that that student in my class was the one who already got praised. But hey I'm actually happy for them, don't get me wrong. Always nice to be told that you are the one who is definitely getting a 100! Plus, I think I fared much better on a recent hard test than most so I'm glad for anyone who gets a leg up with this.
The one thing I did do was underline the book titles and he ranted about how he nearly fainted when he saw that because almost no one did it, although I wasn't named. So that's something! XD
And I guess there's the possibility that he hadn't read mine at that point because he wasn't finished grading.
Alia wrote: "Hallie wrote: "Oh my gosh, Alia! I'm actually thinking you did do well. My teachers deliberately never told that there was one certain person who did extremely well even though she criticized all o..."Well, I sure hope you get a good grade, though, because I think you deserve one :) There could be more than one person who did well, and there is that possibility that you mentioned at the end. Or maybe he expected something good from you and that's how it was. That was what happened to me; the teacher said everyone did bad and even the top students left her disappointed. We were all freaking out as "top students" and the next thing I hear is everyone saying that I'm so skinny because I eat English textbooks instead of real food xD
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