The Vocab Book
http://vocabbook.blogspot.com/
In my younger days, I had an english teacher. I can't remember her name now but she was simultaneously my most hated and most loved teacher at the time. It's a dichtomy but that's life.
Each week she would make us get fifty new vocabulary words each. Each week she would check our notebooks so see how we were doing.
I want to get better in writing. I think it helps with the creativity and the works of the anacrusis guy just inspires me.
To this end, I've created a new forced writing blog which I call my Vocabulary Notebook. Each school day I will go to dictionary.com's word of the day and write a story utilizing that word. I was meant to start yesterday but I got lazy. So I started today with the word Temporize. I drafted the story in school. I actually liked my draft better. For some reason though, I decided to leave the paper in school, choosing instead to fold it and write the URL of my blog down. Shameless self promotion, yes but I doubt it got read anyway. Probably got promptly thrown in the trash.
So yeah. My writing can only get better. I hope. Onward ho!
3 comments:
I often leave scraps of paper with a clever phrase and the words subtlepen.danwa.net scrawled across it. I haven't gotten any hits off of it, sadly.
By Zachary @ 2:12 AM
I think The Vocabulary Notebook is awesome! I'm totally subscribed.
(This is the Anacrusis guy, by the way, although I guess you have to take my word for it. I tried to email you and it didn't work.)
By Brendan @ 4:48 AM
:o
Thank you for those words of encouragement. I was wondering who you were when you posted on my post about the english paper.
Probably ought to update my blogger profile.
By Jeiel Aranal @ 4:04 PM
Post a Comment