I hate poetry. (And other things!)

Yeah, I'm writing something for my blog because I don't want to annotate another poem. I think AP English Literature has taught me that no, I don't really like poetry all that much. I mean, actually, I think it can be cool...but noooo, I don't like annotating six poems a night and then beating them to death the next day during class discussions and tests and whatnot.

Can we go back to novels now? Or can we please do a compromise and read a nice play? I didn't mind Hamlet quite as much (aside from all the nit-picky tests we had on it that I all failed). But the poetry? ANOTHER intensive poetry unit, with a third and maybe a fourth coming if that's much long it takes you to get us "AP ready"?

So yes, I hate poetry. I sort of dread when we do the poetry unit in Writer's Craft (AKA creative writing class).

Oh, and yes! I am FINALLY taking a creative writing class! Okay, so basically, nothing we've done yet is really all that new ("first thought" word vomit free-writing, which is the basic principle of NaNo, and microfictions, which we did in 10th grade a bit and I do all the time in Calliope club), but it's so much fun. I think I'll benefit a lot from it when we work on longer (short) pieces, because I think that's where I could use the most work. I think my microfictions and late-night-I-don't-know-any-better poems are better than my more substantial short stories. And novels, of course, but that goes without saying.

I'm still thinking of ways I can do a "Humanities final surpassing final project" for that class, but since he hasn't actually officially told us the specs for the project, it's feels somewhat pointless. I sat next to one of my friends on the bus during a band event who was in Humanities with me (and is now in my Writer's Craft class), and she said it couldn't be done.

Well, my oboe-playing friend, it CAN be done, and it WILL be done! I SWEAR IT!

(It's a BFS goal, and it's one of the ones I know I'm going to obsess over because it's not that painless but very time-consuming. But that's okay, because I will wow the class with my better-than-Fairy-Tale project, I know it.)

I'm thinking something that's sort of like a scrapbook, and where the ten pages of writing are crumpled up and you have to find them to piece together the story. I was thinking about calling it "Demon Book", and the demon book is a character/object in the story...and it eats people! And the project itself is going to be like a replica of the demon book from the story itself. It makes more sense in my head, and if it's physically more than ten pages, then I don't know if he'll let me do it.

Or I might do a short sequential-art-type thing in color, and that will be more amazing than Fairy Tale because...of...the pictures. I don't know, though, since Fairy Tale was a full-on 12k-word novella (I'M CALLING IT A NOVELLA, IT'S NOT A SHORT STORY. SHUT UP.) that took up 40 pages because it had 30 illustrations (plus a cover doodle and little pen doodle of a butterfly on the one two-page spread that didn't have an illustratin). And 26 of those illustrations were in color! So yeah.

...I just flipped through it, and I'm like, "wow, knowing me and my teacher's limits on the project, this is going to be hard to surpass," since I can't exactly go for volume. And volume was what made Fairy Tale...well...Fairy Tale. 100% A-grade work.

Heh.

We'll see.

Oh, and I think Wall-E should have gotten the nomination for Best Picture, not just Best Animation. But whatever, the Academy is made up of snobs who don't generally like animation...or "kids movies". I just hope it wins Best Animation (it totally deserves it) and Best Original Song ("Down to Earth"!). And if it got nominated for Best Score, I think it should win that, too, if not just for "Define Dancing".