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FINAL GRADE FOR EXAM
1. INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH 15 points
Post a piece of writing that introduces yourself, states your philosophy as a writer, and describes three of your works in detail

2. TEN COMMANDMENTS OF WRITING 15 points
Revise and post your "Ten Commandments of Writing".
(-3) Each commandment should include an example to illustrate the commandment (a majority should be from your own writing).

3. HIGHLIGHT FIVE OF YOUR BEST WORKS 10 points
Identify five of your best works you created this year in Creative Writing and complete the following:
For each of the five works, clean up the page so that it only features the final piece of writing.
Briefly introduce each piece of writing

4. POST TWO FEATURED JOURNAL ENTRIES 5 points
Identify and post two of your best entries from your journal.
Post these on pages titled: "featured journal entry".

5. CREATE A TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 points

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2) Blackout Poem: I would consider this piece more of a creation or art piece rather than a work of literature. However, that is the reason I have picked it. My blackout poem is simply a magazine page. Yet it morphed into a story that relates in no way whatsoever to the page it was created from. I especially loved creating this because it is really a hit-or-miss project, you cannot make any mistakes while creating a blackout poem because you are working with a black marker.
3) The Girl Who Didn't Love: this poem is different from the other two that I have chosen. It differs because for this poem I was given something to write about. I wrote about a piece of art called Armored Hearts by Renee Stout. I enjoy Stout's work and it was really very easy for me to conjure (haha) up an ekphrastic response to her art.
To Visit My 10 Commandments of Writing:
10 Commandments of Writing
1) Listen to the voices, unless they tell you to burn the house down.
You must not question what you're doing, accept the writing you have created. For example, my sound poem, Clocks, is slightly strange (it's a poem made completely from non-existing words, what did I expect?) yet I love it because it sounds interesting.
2) Great writers don’t cheat, they steal.
THe Copy Change poem I wrote, Polar, is written in the format of another writer. I simply stole his format and put my ideas in it.
3) Mystery is the catalyst of imagination.
Playing House, a story I wrote from a name and occupation out of a YellowPages book, is full of mystery that causes the reader to create their own images and ending for the story.
4) Imagination: less is more, in some instances.
It is possible in any work of literature to over-imagine things, by using too many details and getting slightly side-tracked.
5) Mystery is more important than knowledge.
For Playing House, all I started with was a name and a job. I knew nothing about the occupation I was given, yet I was able to write about it like I did by simply creating an air of mystery around his job.
6) Imagination is the compass that leads you to what you love.
For many of the assignments I was given, there were limited guidelines. The lack of guidelines allowed my imagination to lead me to topics I was actually interested in.
7) Criticism can be honest AND help the writer.
When peer-editing in Mr. Wright's class, you have to both complement and destroy the writer. It is tough, but possible to give good advice and still be friends with the person you're giving it to.
8) Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
For Troubled Minds, I rewrote that poem around twelve times. It is a great and annoying feeling to always feel that your writing needs improvement.
9) Good readers make good writers.
While creating my Six Word Memoir, I watched and evaluated, collectively, around 75 other memoirs. By reading other works, you can gain experience yourself.
10) Do not change your writing to please others.
This rule applies to every piece of writing I have ever written or will ever write. Criticism is fabulous, but can be ignored if you feel completely content with your writing.
My 5 Best Works:
Blackout Poem

10 Commandments of Writing
1) Listen to the voices, unless they tell you to burn the house down.
You must not question what you're doing, accept the writing you have created. For example, my sound poem, Clocks, is slightly strange (it's a poem made completely from non-existing words, what did I expect?) yet I love it because it sounds interesting.
2) Great writers don’t cheat, they steal.
THe Copy Change poem I wrote, Polar, is written in the format of another writer. I simply stole his format and put my ideas in it.
3) Mystery is the catalyst of imagination.
Playing House, a story I wrote from a name and occupation out of a YellowPages book, is full of mystery that causes the reader to create their own images and ending for the story.
4) Imagination: less is more, in some instances.
It is possible in any work of literature to over-imagine things, by using too many details and getting slightly side-tracked.
5) Mystery is more important than knowledge.
For Playing House, all I started with was a name and a job. I knew nothing about the occupation I was given, yet I was able to write about it like I did by simply creating an air of mystery around his job.
6) Imagination is the compass that leads you to what you love.
For many of the assignments I was given, there were limited guidelines. The lack of guidelines allowed my imagination to lead me to topics I was actually interested in.
7) Criticism can be honest AND help the writer.
When peer-editing in Mr. Wright's class, you have to both complement and destroy the writer. It is tough, but possible to give good advice and still be friends with the person you're giving it to.
8) Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
For Troubled Minds, I rewrote that poem around twelve times. It is a great and annoying feeling to always feel that your writing needs improvement.
9) Good readers make good writers.
While creating my Six Word Memoir, I watched and evaluated, collectively, around 75 other memoirs. By reading other works, you can gain experience yourself.
10) Do not change your writing to please others.
This rule applies to every piece of writing I have ever written or will ever write. Criticism is fabulous, but can be ignored if you feel completely content with your writing.

My 5 Best Works:
Blackout Poem
Troubled Minds
In the Green Suite
Kind of Blue
Reunited and It Feels So Good
Troubled Minds
Kind of Blue
Links to Two Featured Journal Entries:
Featured Journal Entry 1
Featured Journal Entry 2

While creating my Six Word Memoir, I watched and evaluated, collectively, around 75 other memoirs. By reading other works, you can gain experience yourself.
10) Do not change your writing to please others.
your writing.

My 5 Best Works:
Blackout Poem
Troubled Minds
In the Green Suite
Kind of Blue
Reunited and It Feels So Good

In the Green Suite
by Savannah Seeber
to Fatima!
Come to Fatima!
Wretch open the locked doors of your soul,
Examine the shadowy corridors of your thoughts.
Come to Fatima!
mind upon her.
Fatima sees all
Fatima accepts allher,
Do your worst.
Fatima sees all
Fatima accepts all.

Reunited and It Feels so Good
Savannah Seeber
Montezuma smiled as he placed the last triangle on his stone piece and put the final project in the oven. He had always been the most artistic and creative boy in his grade at Tenochtitlan Primary School. But with creativity came sensitivity, and with sensitivity came bullies. Yet no fear coursed through little Montezuma’s body today. Oh no, it would be the rude Aztec boys who were scared, for once. For, this latest art piece served a dual purpose. While being pleasing to the eye, this craft also was significantly heavy. Heavy enough to teach those bullies who was in charge!
Montezuma smiled as he recalled this fond memory. The death of the three boys was what really began his rise to power. He would never stop cherishing the heavy little stone square. It would forever hang from the archway over the door to his palace, though the blood stains tend to scare visitors. But he was a brutal ruler, he lived for that fear. Because now, it wasn’t his own.
And thus the hunted became the hunter.

Kind of Blue
“So What”
Savannah Seeber
A soft swaying tune plays lightly from the interior of her restaurant. She smiles as the tempo increases slightly with the volume. The sound of a well-tuned trumpet brings her back to younger days. Days full of swing and nights of slow-waltzing to the smooth, syrupy melodies of what she considered to be the most beautiful records ever created. She couldn’t have been happier then. It didn’t matter that the white men tried to stop the music. They could never control what she had ingrained in her brain. Those men could lock her in a cell for demanding her rights, but they couldn’t change what she thought and what she heard every night from her window. The laughter and clack of dancin’ shoes spinning on the floor as people danced the night away. It didn’t matter to her what color they were, they knew good music and they were enjoying it; just as she had many nights before. She knew now what she would do with her life. She would create that music, and provide the dance floor for all the happy people. She realized now that she didn’t need to dance to be that special kind of happy, she only needed the atmosphere that came with it. Ella couldn’t be happier now.

Hello! My name is Savannah, and I live by only one rule in life: in order to fully experience anything, you must fully immerse yourself into it. I believe this rule applies to my writing techniques also, because I love to be engrossed in my own stories. In fact, I think it is the only way to really create literature that is truthful and complete. Food for thought: why do you think J.K. Rowling can so easily explain what her characters were thinking or how they felt during a specific chapter or event in the Harry Potter Series? I'll tell you. Rowling can do that simply because she is able to completely become a character she has created, she feels everything they feel. J.K. Rowling exemplifies my writing philosophy entirely.
Didn't Love.
1)
1) Troubled Minds: this piece.
2) Blackout Poem: I would consider this piece more of a creation or art piece rather than a work of literature. However, that is the reason I have picked it. My blackout poem is simply a magazine page. Yet it morphed into a story that relates in no way whatsoever to the page it was created from. I especially loved creating this because it is really a hit-or-miss project, you cannot make any mistakes while creating a blackout poem because you are working with a black marker.
her art.
10 Commandments of Writing
1) Listen to the voices, unless they tell you to burn the house down.
You must not question what you're doing, accept the writing you have created. For example, my sound poem, Clocks, is slightly strange (it's a poem made completely from non-existing words, what did I expect?) yet I love it because it sounds interesting.
2) Great writers don’t cheat, they steal.
I wrote, Polar, is written in the format of another writer. I simply stole his format and put my ideas in it.
3) Mystery is the catalyst of imagination.
4)Playing House, a story I wrote from a name and occupation out of a YellowPages book, is full of mystery that causes the reader to create their own images and ending for the story.
4) Imagination: less is moremore, in some instances.
It is possible in any work of literature to over-imagine things, by using too many details and getting slightly side-tracked.
5) Mystery is more important than knowledge.
For Playing House, all I started with was a name and a job. I knew nothing about the occupation I was given, yet I was able to write about it like I did by simply creating an air of mystery around his job.
6) Imagination is the compass that leads you to what you love.
For many of the assignments I was given, there were limited guidelines. The lack of guidelines allowed my imagination to lead me to topics I was actually interested in.
7) Criticism can be honest AND help the writer.
When peer-editing in Mr. Wright's class, you have to both complement and destroy the writer. It is tough, but possible to give good advice and still be friends with the person you're giving it to.
8) Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
For Troubled Minds, I rewrote that poem around twelve times. It is a great and annoying feeling to always feel that your writing needs improvement.
9) Good readers make good writers.
10) Don’tWhile creating my Six Word Memoir, I watched and evaluated, collectively, around 75 other memoirs. By reading other works, you can gain experience yourself.
10) Do not change your please others.
This rule applies to every piece of writing I have ever written or will ever write. Criticism is fabulous, but can be ignored if you feel completely content with your writing.