Creative Writing Club

I will not be able to attend the creative writing club today, as I have a meeting with my college counselor today at lunch, and unfortunately not be able to attend the meeting as they take place at the same time. So the next possible meeting I can attend is next Thursday, a

My story is proceeding slowly, but it is beginning to take tentative form. I have found that I like to edit and rewrite things multiple times after the first time I put them down, and it seems that I sometimes spend more time on a page than I intend to. For example, I had written the beginning of this story down on paper, but then when I went to type it, I changed a big chunk. And this is only the first half page or so, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to increase the pace of writing the story so I can actually get the first couple of pages done. I feel that sometimes I take longer because I try to make it sound better, try to make it blend, and seem natural, and there are parts that I come to and they sound forced and sometimes seem awkward, so instead of coming back to those parts and continuing the story, I tend to stay at that spot and try and make it sound natural, sound normal, and keep it from sounding forced.

I do think that I have improved as a writer, and that I'm able to transfer my ideas more effectively than I could before I started Creative Writing Club, but there is definitely more room for improvement, as the improvement is slight, but noticeable, but there are still many areas in which I could use improvement. I also believe I am showing perseverance and commitment, because before this activity, if I ever started a story, I'd never even attempt finishing it, and now I've actually been able to start two stories, and, as of right now, I am keeping them both active and am continuing to edit them and expanding the story within them, though I still haven't completed one to bring into the meetings yet, so that is an area where I may be falling short, so I should start going about this with a greater focus.

Film Club

There was no film club this week, but last week we got into possible ideas for the movie we are supposed to be starting in January, as well as discussing the ideas from the movies we'd seen so far in the course of the club. We also discussed lighting of certain movies as it can very decisively make the movie seem realistic or not. One thing we hit on was the idea that you cannot have the lighting for nighttime to seem like broad daylight, as it will very quickly make the movie seem ridiculous, as the idea that the sun is shining in the middle of the night just seems ridiculous.

Creative Writing Club, October 22nd meeting

Last week I missed the meeting due to Group 4 presentations, and this week one of the group members brought in the first chapter of a book they were writing and I myself though it was a interesting idea, and had potential, but I felt it ran too fast, and the grammar could have been improved.
Also, the story I'm working on finally has an official beginning, and I have typed the first page, as I had brainstormed it, with a few minor changes. This way I feel it brings out the suspense better, and i eliminated a few of the ideas that I felt was flimsier, and hope to be able to present the first chapeter of the story by the week after the next.

Film Club October 9th meeting

This friday, we watched a silent movie from the 1920s, which was about Dracula, but it wasn't called Dracula. I can't remember the name of the movie. I had to leave early so I didn't see the whole thing. Considering the technical limitations of the time the film was pretty good. We didn't get to discuss much but hope to next time.

Film Club

We have a film club meeting later today. We were going to watch Freddy Kruger, but apparently we are watching something else, though I don't know the reason why, as for the entire week it's been Freddy Kruger, and now a last minute change. Well, whatever it is, we'll watch it.

Creative Writing Club

We had a meeting yesterday at lunch; but only three people showed up. We read a short story by one of the group members, which I felt had a really powerful ending. We discussed the story and ways that we felt it could be improved, and ways that we felt it really stood out and gave our feedback to the author.

Also yesterday on the bus I came up with a new story and actually began writing it. It is so far more compelling than the other one I've begun and so far I can't really get the other one going, but this one I feel is much more involved and so far I've been able to write, so far, the first half page or the whole first page in less than an hour. Hopefully I can maintain this story while at the same time starting and continuing the other story.

The overall story is still unclear, but it begins with a US Navy SEAL team going into a small town in the Midwest investigating the death of the entire town. Hopefully I can continue it and have a page or two completed over the weekend. I hope to be able to keep the feeling of suspense up until the big reveal. And I want to keep what there actually facing a mystery until I feel it would be prudent to be revealed.

Creative Writing Club

This week's meeting was cancelled so I was not abel to go; however I hope to begin my story this weekend and have a passage for the meeting thursday.

Film Club #3

This friday we finished the movie Poltiergeist, and after finishing, we watched the original Dracula. We had already discussed most of the features of Poltiergeist, so wet discussed a little more and then started Dracula.