Drew Myth & Folk

The story lab I am completing is from the advice to writer’s story lab. The specific advice I took from this story lab was " One of the Hardest Things is to start .”   This was an interesting advice that had some really good key points. On of the very interesting advice strings was everyone is always convinced that their next will be your worst, or you will never be able to write as good as your biggest hit again. All writers live in constant terror, but one of a writer’s biggest jobs is making sense of the chaos and making something from it when you can. The only way to do this is sitting down and just start writing. (Image depicts this lab very well I think, Writing )

For week 12 I decided on completing a story lab. For this I decided to read C.S. Lewis's statement of Practice, Practice, Practice . In this article the author suggests a technique to better the readers writing skills. They suggest writing continually as well as you can. Whether it is a fun write or a meaningful write. That by doing this the writer becomes so much further on. I really found this interesting and meaningful because I struggle with writing and this is a possible activity that could improve my writing skills. This is a technique that I believe can help the majority of writes with sentence structure all the way to idea generation. (Image is of creativity in progress, Source: Pencil )

For the story lab i decided to do it over the article 8 Reasons to Join an Online Course . This Article hit on eight key points which are as follows, Varety is good, the location, the time is up to you, teaching, coaching and feedback, the pace is up to you, the topics and lessons are up to you, community and after-course support.  These are very interesting points and I think the top three that I agree with would be location of the online course is very important because it allows me to adapt it into my day. This leads into the next point I like which would be the time is up to you. This is very important to me as I am very busy now in my senor year studying mechanical engineering and have very little free time. the third and final point that I think really sold this article was the coaching and feedback. With online classes, most of the time the feedback your receive on assignments is very good, and very instructive on what you can change. This was a very good article and really...

For week 6 I chose to do a storylab, the article I chose to do it over was What’s the Difference Between An Autobiography and a Memoir . Although both are based on the truth and both require lots of research, there are many differences between each. Starting with autobiographies. They are usually written by someone famous, and they usually make use of documentary records. Autobiographies usually focus on an entire life, starting at brth and chronologically progressing until the current age. It usually has the feeling of a historical document and is filled with facts and specific dates. Now the similar Memoir has its differences as well. Memoirs can be written by anyone, and is a representation of a memory, not of history. Memoirs focus on an event, theme or choice in life. Memoirs can begin anywhere and move backwards or forwards and end whenever. Memoirs are more concerned with the emotional truths of your life. This article had some great insight of the differences betw...

For week 4 I decided to do a story lab versus a story. For the story lab i have decided to learn more about writers block. The article I read was Breaking Down Writers Block by and anonymous writer. The article was very open saying that all writers experience writers block in some form or fashion whether it is a writers still creating work but it just nit being quality, or a writer that can not create work at all. The author said some of the things that can cause writers block, and seeing these writers can look at these and try to avoid these 10 things. The author listed fear, distractions, procrastination, anxiety, self-doubt, fatigue, illness, perfectionism, pressure, depression. These are all key components to the onset of writers block. two of the ones that stuck out to me were self-doubt and perfectionism. These stuck out because i believe these would be the leading causes of writer block in my case. Article Source: Breaking Down Writers Block (Thought this image was fitting...