Thursday, February 2, 2012

Writing Focus 2/2/12

Write a description of a setting that holds emotional significance for you.  Like Momaday, use vivid images to capture your perspective and to make the setting appeal to readers' senses.

12 comments:

  1. A setting that holds an emotional significance for me would on a ship in the ocean. The crystal clear water is beautiful but hold so many varieties of fish in the sea. Sometimes the waters are as rough as a storm and sometimes they are as calm and weak as a spring day.The ship is built strong and tough to handle whatever harshness the waves throws at it. From the sunny days to the stormy days, the ship continues on it's voyage to set out and reach it's goals.

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  2. "Breathe." That's my only thought when I'm going through something stressful. When I realize that there's nothing that could help me, I drift away to a warm, breezy place. A place where the only noise is waves crashing onto the shore. Sitting on the sand, smelling the salt of the sea, makes all my worries go away. The beach feels like a kind of heaven. It relieves my stress and when I go there, I am worry-free.

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  3. Do you ever just want to sit and think because everything gets a little to much sometimes? Well, under a tree with a few sheets of paper is the emotional significant place for me. It's not just any tree that is good enough for me. It has to be the old willow tree in my yard. It's the most soothing place to sit draw, think, and write. Listening to all the little birds singing. Like there is no worries in the world and the world is at peace.

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  4. A place that will always hold a spot in my heart is Alabama. Ive always loved visiting Alabama ever since I've been born. My father is originally from Alabama, born and raised. I have a whole entire side of family there. I visit there once or twice a year for thanksgiving or either to help my grandfather around the farm. Usually when i visit it snows. Its a beautiful area when the snow is resting on the ground. When i visit my family in Alabama, there is never drama, its always joyful. Despite the high mountains and the frightfully deep valleys, the scene is very attractive and peaceful. You live the southern life in Alabama also. From hunting, fishing, sports, cooking with family, and relaxing outside with your friends and family. I have always and always will enjoy visiting Alabama.

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  5. Hampton Beach holds an emotional signiffagance to me because I used to go there when I was a kid. Hampton Beach is in New Hampshire. It's the best during the summer. Even though it's like 60 degrees outside and you have the penguin plunge goin on in the 40 degree water. During the Summer all of the carnivals and festivals and stands are out and it's just the best place in the world. You get to smell the ocean, the carnivals, the just made corn dogs, and fried dough my favorite.

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  6. The room is illuminated with an orange glow from how the sun shines through the Clemson curtains above the Clemson-covered futon. My room is my sanctuary, my place of self-respect and pride. It's private and secluded, no is ever in their but me. A guitar in the corner, a keyboard on the side, and an iPod dock on the shelf, my room is made for me. The iPod is always on, the keyboard I use sometimes but that guitar never leaves that corner. Old records, autographs, and awards hang from my wall. It's symbolic for everything that is me. The light in the center of the ceiling is never on, in the darkness it's quiet but theres always a notebook and there's always a pencil and they will never seperate for it is me.

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  7. I am in a place that you can feel the cold, damp, emptiness, where you are unable to see the area around you. It gives you the sense of nothingness, and the sense of loneliness. You can call out for help but nothing or no one comes to your rescue. Then, you ask the question, "When will I be free from this place...to see what I am missing in the world." However, in this place there is no hope to be found, no person to give you company. This, place, this cave, is unrelenting to the human spirit. "Will there be a light at the end?", I ask. "Will I make it through this?"

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  8. A signffigate place. A that will always be my restful spot will be my room. Laying down in bed listening to music takes all my worries away. In my room I'm alone there's no problems and no one to bother me. In my room I have quiet time to think, I have my time. My room with my music is like heaven gets described, peaceful relaxing and just me. My room is my place my room is my heaven!! :)

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  9. A place that holds emotional significance to me would have to be laying out by a pool. I prefer a pool over the ocean because the water is not sticky and pool water is clear. It is significant to me because when I'm laying out by the pool I know I am relaxed. I also know that if I get hot laying out I can just go jump in the pool. When I am laying out by the pool I know I can let all my thoughts go away and let my mind go blank. I feel like i am in the happiest place on earth.

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  10. As I softly close my eyes i can hear the waves crashing against the sandy shore. I tilt my head back as I can feel the sun starting to shine upon my skin. It seems as though I am starting to dose off, but really I am just enjoying the fine grains of sand skimming over my feet in unison of the ocean flow. As I place my elbows on my knees I begin to feel the comforting warmth of the sun begin to bake on my back. I could never be so relaxed. I feel as though the problems and worries of the world has dissapeared and there is no where else i would rather be.

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  11. The most emotionally significant place that I can think of would have to be sitting under my grandmothers old popcorn tree because it's always so peaceful and calm. I can do pretty much anything there and no one bothers me. Went I get mad and need to go somewhere just to vent that's where I'm headed to. Most of the time I take a fee sheets of paper with me to doodle or write what happened that day. When I go there my mind just goes blank and all my worries eventually dissolve like snow. After I'm done with whatever it is I went there to do I my grandmother comes outside and we share what has been going on lately, she is the closest thing to me and I can tell her anything and feel like I'm not being judge that I actually am being heard.

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  12. I would have to say my swing in my backyard has the most significance meaning to me. When I'm in a bad mood or just having a rough day, I can go there and not be disturbed and just think. I always go there when I have a lot on my mind. I also like to read and it is somewhere where peaceful and quiet I can read with out being bothered by anyone. Me and my dad are really close and when I feel like something is bothering me and I need to talk to him, that is where we go because it is peaceful and calm. It just takes all my worries away.

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