Saturday, June 8, 2013

I'm so Bored that I gave writing lessons to the blogosphere: Lesson 2

Now that you've gathered some life experience, it's time to choose your writing format.

So, what are you going to write?

An autobiography

This is what you write when you're incredibly Bored and have no imagination, so rather than continue to have fascinating life experiences, you sit down somewhere and write them all down without changing anything.
Or maybe you just write them down without ever having any...

Basically, nobody wants to read this, and the only people who will read it are 3rd graders who are forced into it for a school project and will hate you forever.

A novel

Maybe you're incredibly Bored but have a wonderful imagination. Write a novel. It will take you forever and you'll want to rip your hair out 5 million times before you're finished, but if and when you do finish, you'll have a work of art that will be appreciated by generations to come.
Until someone makes a movie of it and completely misrepresents everything you spent so much time writing

A short story

This is what you want to write if you have an incredible imagination but you don't have the time to devote to a novel (or if you're hoping that your story will never become a full-length film fiasco).

Haha, sorry. There's no avoiding Hollywood.
Poetry

Who needs things like plot, character development, or proper syntax or grammar? Not poets. If you'd rather just let your emotions flow straight onto the paper without worrying about any of that (how do you objectively define poetry, anyway?) or if you like to purposely play with the power of words by inserting all kinds of figurative language and plays on words, then write a poem. Or write 20.

Nobody will read it, but then again, it's safe from Hollywood!

Blog post

 Do you have the attention span of a fly? Do you want people to believe you have imagination when you really don't? Are you beyond the point of even caring about your writing style as long as you get to post links on your Facebook wall?

Welcome to the 21st century of writers. You should be a blogger.

We is the kings of the writers because we is so clever.

 Bored Game Time!

Answer: Don Quijote. Move forward 3 spaces if you knew that, even though it probably means you're a creepy stalker.

Question: Which of the above writings formats do I use in my writing? 

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