literacy history rough draft

Why? this was the eternal question i asked as a child. if i did not get an acceptable response i went and found one. i never read the berenstein bears, i prefered cutaway books and picture encyclapedias, they gave the answers i desired, in a glyphic form i could read.

Sometimes i have to know something is true, or wont work. if you re-cork a wine bottle and and heat it, it will shatter. if you take apart a microwave and hook up the magnetron you will have built a primitive microwave cannon. if you mix styro foam with gasoline it will become a dangerously flammable goo. pick-up lines only work if you are in a bar.

these are examples of my risky behavior. i had an insatiable need to know. this eventually carried over into school, at least once lab classes started. i then grew love popular science just to see what scientists are doing. there is a diy section that i immediately flip to. i then proceed to try the expirements or projects they suggest. i then began to do science on my own.

i tried things methodically, not just on a whim. this never created a need for me to write, though. i could figure things out as i went along and didnt care to share any of my discoveries, many of which were proved wrong mathematically before i tried them. i found self fulfillment in merely knowing i proved something to myself. results meant nothing.

when i got into higher and higher levels of math and science i began to realize there were problems i could not solve in this physical realm, or using systems such as math and science. morals, ethics and theology have now consumed me. i have come to a point where i realize that the wisest of men have no need for planks constant, derivations, or biology.

wise men are fools who think before they speak

love is a like a river-it has flow-some people like it-some people sit outside-some people can’t swim-some people abuse it-some people damn it up for themselves never giving back-others just go with the flow-others try to control how deep they go-yet we all need it

we are like a forest, plant yourself near someone, you will grow close, if you are lucky you become one tree

if you truly believe in something, there is no need to say “i believe”, it just is.

people are like houses, to become great they have to be re-invented, rebuilt, and the old blueprints forgotten

these are some of my analogies and quotes. they may be influenced by what i have read or seen. this is how i like to think and write, as a wise man would. i started looking into wisdom during high school. i saw many “smart” people acting foolishly, and some dull people seeming very wise. this made me ponder and explore. i bought Bartlett’s quotations just to have because there were so many great ideas summed up into simple, concise quotations. as i read i found that many people who are wise speak the same truths, just in a different system of code for their time and society. to me, almost everything has a system and i thought i discovered one to become wise.

after weeks of trying to come up with my own quotes and trying in futility to force myself to be wise it hit me. just be. that’s all it takes to be wise.  don’t interact too much in a situation and you can see many more facets. sitting in a cafeteria or classroom i would always reach out and meet new people, be a clown and get a laugh or talk. now you can find me sitting alone at lunch, by preference. i like windows or eating outside. you have to eat, and if you are doing that right you can’t talk. this creates a prime time for your mind to wander, so i let it. this is how i noticed two trees can become one. observance was the first step to becoming a different writer.

i dream, often. everynight i see images and a real life story play out before me. i believe it might be possible that when we “sleep” we are truely awake, just not here. dreaming is that time in between the shift when we reassemble our personna in another reality. this is besides the point. i like to dictate some of the better parts of my dreams to my computer. one is about a young man, i never finished part two, or even know how this story will end. dreaming i feel is important to society. it may be something you ate, or maybe you should listen to it. some of the worlds greatest stories were dreams far before becoming reality on the page. imagine your craziest dream, that could become the next alice in wonderland.

dreams, wise men and technology all have influenced the writer i am becoming today. i feel to be a great writer you must always grow. if a plant stops growing, we say its dead, what if a man stops thinking. i prefer my dreams to my reality at the moment. they are better than being here. i resolve to one day be a wise man, i know it will be a journey that takes a lifetime, but it is my goal. my present self is a scientist. i am always explrering and figureing out new ways to decifer what i see and feel. life has never hindered a person’s ability to write. that is why i plan to discover as many aspects of it as i can.

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alternative story telling.

in high school i was forced to get an internship. this could be anything i wanted it to be so long as it was unpaid and it was closer to a job shadow than a college internship. i searched for something fun that wouldn’t take me near a hospital. i then discovered a summer camp for making videogames.

videogame design camp is an interesting thing. unlike many summer camps this one took place on a campus. we spent most of our time indoors playing or making videogmes. the point ofa camp is to makefriedships, but if you bring many antisocial kids together they will be satisfied with not talking. it was fun but i cant for the life of me remember one person’s name. that s okay with me i wasnt there to learn names i was there to get an A.

when designing a videogame maps, cooridors and textures are like the paper and pen for a videogames. anyone can make a cool looing level, not everyone can script a great game. i learned that to make a descent adventure game you need to have a protagonist. ths man or woman needs to start out normal and go through some trial that catalizes their change into a hero. this event is often caused by some villain or antagonist. then the hero must solve the problems at hand to gain enough skill to destroy the evil. although this style works in videogames it was adapted from all great novels of thrilling adventureres.

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the lord of the rings and the hobbit were some of the first real novels i picked up. i was in fourth grade when i started the hobbit and i finished the series in sixth grade. i loved the descriptions of battles armour and ruins kept my little mind spinning in fantasy for two years. i finally liked to read. i tried reading harry potter but it just wasnt for me. i needed something new, so i started searching fantasy. i thought i needed an anchient story like LOTR but what i found was ender’s game a futuristic tale of a genius.

these two series have influenced the way i write. i feel we enjoy writers who write like we do. this is why i wouldnt settle for anything but a writer i liked reading. they reiterated my style and …