Wintry Nothing (7th Grade)

This is a poem that I found stashed in my bookshelf that I wrote for my English class in seventh grade. This is a clue to my upcoming new short story.

If you go outside on a cold winter night,
Then you will see nothing at all in your sight.
If you look up into the deep, dark sky,
Then you might see dancing stars with your eye.

They dance with each other or dance alone.
They dance as if with only one tone.
But if you look around there is nothing there,
Nothing at all, anywhere.

You glance around and suddenly realize,
That there is nothing here but stars and skies…

Story Idea #5

Write a story beginning and ending with the question, “Why?” Try to keep the story based around the question if you can.

The Club: My Chapter 4 – Cyclone of Confusion

There was a strong wind that struck my face with a shocking sting. Snow continued to blow wildly about, freezing my bare skin and I realized that I was once again a human, now lying in the frozen powder without any protection. The shirt that I had previously been wearing was once more too large to properly fit me and sagged from my small-framed body. The mere shorts that I had worn to prevent from tearing jeans now left my legs vulnerable to the cold, forcing me to sit up and curl into a small ball to keep my body temperature up. What a perfect night for a full moon.

The Club: My Chapter 3 – Light of Renewal

After shaking the emotional thoughts from my mind, I heard a thud from the car. My head instantly glanced to the loud noise and found Mr. Gifford rubbing the back of his neck with a groan as he picked himself up from the roof of his overturned car. “What are you doing here?” he asked Isaac with a surprised look upon his face.

My Thoughts: March 28, 2007

I was given a suggestion that I should write about a hobby of mine such as drawing. I think that this might be a little odd, but I have decided that I will at least give it a try.

Drawing: to sketch or to trace figures; create a picture or depict by sketching. What exactly is the ability to draw? Why is it that some people are blessed with this ability and others are not? Is it hereditary or is it learned? Perhaps it is both…

Guide to my Blog – Update

For those of you who haven’t already noticed, I do have a post that I update everyday called Guide to my Blog. You can easily access this guide by clicking on the link to it on my sidebar to the right of the page. On it, you will find the last time that I came on Magic Pens down to the last minute and what I have done so far such as commenting, writing, posting, or just checking. After the Latest Activity is my To Do List where I will post some writings that I would like to write, have to write, or am still working on. The rest of the page is the actual guide to my blog that will have some of my writing posted under different categories from my sidebar. If you think of any other categories that I could use or have any questions, comments, etc., please comment.

The Club: My Chapter 2 – Familiar Faces

I found myself darting through the wheat covered fields of North Dakota upon my four, long legs with the long, shaggy fur that sprouted from my skin blowing in the wind as I traveled. It felt a little odd to be running with my head about a foot from the ground and my unusually lengthy forearms curving below my body past my back feet as I sprinted. I was no longer a human, or at least in a human form. I was now an animal, and I could not control my thoughts, or my actions…

The Club: My Chapter 1 – Transformation

The administrator of the writing club, Magic Pens, that I am in, created a story using real members of our club, giving them interesting powers and abilities, and told us, (the members of Magic Pens,) to write our own versions of it. Here is mine…

Just stay calm…just stay calm… The thoughts seemed to emerge from my desolate mind into the silence of dusk as I paced down the lone highway. Keep your thoughts clear, just keep them clear. I knew that it was coming. I knew that I could not stop it. Empty thoughts…blank thoughts. Everything is fine. It taunted me in the back of my mind as the sun inched closer to the horizon far off. You’ll be safe. It’ll be all right. The horizon seemed to be the blade of a knife as I waited for night to come, for with night, death would follow. Just don’t think about it. Don’t think of the pain. I could imagine the gruesome scenes before me with my heart rate increasing. No, don’t lose control. Don’t lose control. I shook the bloody thoughts from my mind as I tried to regain control of myself. I noticed that my breathing had become sharp and quick along with each beat within my chest. Happy thoughts…happy thoughts. I could not live with this forever. I had to do something about it. What to do? What to do? I felt the shrill pain of fear bite into me along with a nagging at the back of my mind. Look at the moon…look at the moon. You must look at the moon. “No!” I screamed aloud, grasping my head within my hands. I was surprised at my sudden action and found that I had stopped walking. The sun is setting. It won’t be long now. I glanced back in the direction that I had come from, checking to see how far from the Air Force Base I had actually walked. This seems far enough. This is good. Flashing my dark eyes about, I found that I was beside a wide spread field of wheat with the empty highway to my left. “This is good,” I said aloud, confirming my thoughts. The sun is almost gone. Darkness is approaching. I knew that my mind was correct but I didn’t want to believe it. Ignoring the instinctive thoughts, I turned from the pavement, placing my tennis shoe into the wet snow of the field. It is coming…it is coming.

Meeting Overview: March 24, 2007

Unfortunately, there were not a lot of members at our last Magic Pens meeting that was held at 10:30 AM, (although it started quite a bit late,) on March 24, 2007 at the Bagel Stop/Book Nook. Due to the lack of members, and the somewhat short amount of time that was available for Mr. Gifford, we did not discuss a lot of new topics, however, a few good topics were brought up. At first, each person who attended the meeting shared what they have recently been reading and what they liked about it, and then gave a short review on what they plan to write about recently. Afterwards, we discussed the following topics. If there are any mistakes in this overview, please inform me.

Enter the Forest…

If you haven’t noticed already, I have redone my blog’s layout once more. After helping Melissa redecorate her blog, I felt that my old layout was a bit boring and since nobody could see my background anyways, I wanted a change. After purchasing the awesome game, Oblivion for PS3, (also available for XBOX360 and PC,) I have been in an Oblivion mood and have downloaded some awesome screenshots and beautiful title music, and decided to try out the forest screenshot for the background of my blog, just to see if it would show up. I knew that it had nothing to do with the space and dragon theme that I currently had, but I was just seeing if it would at least show up. A few minutes later, Mr. Gifford commented that he could see my background, making me very joyful. I quickly created a banner and reworded my “Continue Reading,” “Previous Entries,” “Next Entries,” and such to go with my new forest theme. I really enjoy this theme and like it a lot more than my past theme so I will most likely keep it up for a while. Right now, I am still working on the banner for there is one thing that I would like to add to it but I have to draw it first. Until then, I have a temporary banner to display. Now, I must go change the colors of my text!