Creative Writing: Lacy's Failure

An Analysis of David Brooks's Writing David Brooks is a writer for the New York Time. He is a phenomenal writer who epitomizes style techniques and delivers a very well sculpted message. I examined his latest work, Why America’s Leadership Fails, where he discusses passion, adversity and bureaucracy in

Is it really Alex? We should get back down to ground level." "You're right." They head to the door, and Fox wonders just how he's going to explain. Back in the main level of the factory, Wolf and Fox find Hawk lying on the ground, pale and unresponsive, his bulletproof vest next to him and the edges of a red stain showing around a wad of gauze. A soldier that Fox assumes is N-Unit's medic kneels next to him, along with Snake and Coyote. The three medics are talking frantically among themselves. The rest of N-Unit hovers nervously nearby; the rest of H-Unit is nowhere to be seen. Dust particles dance through the beams of sunlight from the holes where windows used to be, giving the whole scene a strangely dreamy air.

My teachers would walk my works around to other classrooms and share them with the peers, impressed with what a 10 year old was able to produce. My mind was a locomotive and my imagination was the coals that fueled the fires that kept it running. As time went on though, my writing started to get more and more lackluster. Compared to the other students, I still had a superior intellect in regards to vocabulary, but I wasn’t able to move my thoughts form my brain to the page. The locomotive was slowing to a halt with no hopes of moving much further. I was letting my “watcher at the gate” succeed. Like Gail Godwin, I was terrified of failure; so much to the point that I wasn’t even able to prepare a coherent essay. While my watcher thought he was protecting me, he was really holding me back. I’m still struggling through breaking the chains of his mental

The ominous breeze spread a blanket of silence over the once picturesque Victorian graveyard. The leaves on the trees swayed back and forth with a soft moan of the

In Rachel Shteir’s essay, “Failure, Writing’s Constant Companion” Shteir states that “Failure in writing is not like failure in business” meaning that when writing you have to be able to recognize you strengths and weakness also that writers have to write every day to exercise their writing muscle and implement the ability to have coherent ideas into their writing. Admittedly when writers feel that there work is less than up to par to what they are capable of writing it’s not the end of the world, everyone gets stuck and its okay just to write anything that comes to you that will eventually inspire your work and get you back on track. However when you think of others peoples approval of your work this can distract you from on writing your best

One day Billy wanted a challenge. I am going to all the fast food restaurants and try all their cheeseburgers.

After running from the P.M.C.C. for hours on end Collin finally caught his breath and began to regroup. He ventured into an abandoned Shop-Rite scavenging for food. Something he had not had since the hydrogen bomb went off two days ago. Nothing much was left due to every store being ransacked as soon as America went into fallout. After some searching, Collin fortunately found canned tomato soup and some beef jerky. As he was about to eat he heard a loud clamor a couple aisles over. He slowly made his way and peered to see what or who made the noise. To his relief it was only another man, around the same age as he.

He was worn out, his hand hurt badly, and now he had to fight for his life with one of those enormous warriors.

Carson's POV I woke up to Mickey screaming from her room. I rolled over and of course, Witney was gone. I rolled out of bed and went to her room. "Da da," she said when I walked in. I picked her up and she snuggled into me. "Momma?" She asked looking for Witney. "Momma's at the studio," I explained. "Me go," she said. "We can go see momma today," I said,"let's get ready." I put Mickey in a white onesie with a light blue Cinderella slipper on it and blue bloomers with white ruffles. I put a light blue bow in her hair and started to cook breakfast. I got Mickey and I breakfast and we headed to the studio.

I was cold damp and the air smelt of old wood and smelly feet. My mother was holding me but the place I was in was a place I didn’t like and the atmosphere seemed sad and gloomy. You could hear footsteps going up and down the hallways but you could barely see anything in the dimly lit room. There was iron bars and a small window where the slightest of light was able to seep through. The little window was the only comfort as the sun’s light came through in the mid afternoon providing warmth and a sense of comfort. It lit the room just enough to allow you to see many boring features of wood and bars. As the wood heated and released some of its moisture the smell of the decay became a little stronger.

It all began with a simple phone call one stormy, gloomy night after dinner. “Jake,” his mama yelled up the stairs,”its for you”. “Its Victoria, she sounds distressed.” As he was making his way down the stairs, he was getting more worried. It was too late for Victoria to be calling at this time, he thought. He was also really tired after his work and homework he was looking forward to some quiet alone time, he really just needed to relax and not get roped up into one of Victoria’s dumb fights again.

Yeah, we're talking about the search for Damian Davidson. Authorities and community members searched for him for two weeks before his body was found. Dozens of parents have gone to that same heartbreak every year, and that's why this dad is stepping in. The fear realized in Duncan. A week ago, after 13 days of searching, authorities found Damien Davidson drowned in a creek. He was just eight years old. David was autistic. Doron Somer has an autistic son at a mark now 19. He knows what it's like to the family in Duncan.

'Why do you hate Richard so much? The words; the first which had slipped from the Socialite's lips since he'd forced onto her knees, and into the bedroom, rang in Karl's ears, and gave him pause. He'd insulted Richard to taunt Lexi, without realising his hatred was so obvious, but

L’OCCASION D’UNE VIE There I was, sitting in the middle of the class looked upon by every single student in the entire room. I had a feeling of total awkwardness and embarrassment, and my mind went totally blank. There, like a terrible dream I never thought would come to pass, as time went by like a broken hourglass. I stared, as if I had seen the future through my eyes, as the teacher stared right back at me with her look of despise. She knew deep inside that I was unaware of her dialogue, yet she simply waited in silence for my response. Words began to spiral in my head as I searched for the one phrase that would satisfy my instructor. I threw a quick glance at the other students, and watched as they snickered and babbled off to their

The coffee is always ready though rarely hot, the styrofoam cups are always out and hardly ever stacked. Though Heber has no problem pouring a cup as the teachers at the fridge continue their conversations. “...Like I had time to read that? I put C’s on anything over three pages. Pfff, administration will just pass them anyways.” The other teacher replies. “No, no, I could never just base it off page limits. I make all redos assignments emailed to me, that way I can just copy the first names from the references and search for them in the essay.” A laugh comes from the first teacher as she replies. “Ha, just be thankful we don’t teach math. What a waste, the students never do better the second time.” The two teachers continue to go back and forth, each comment becoming a little more insulting. Heber just continues on with the coffee making, too numbed from all the other times he has heard the conversations to even pay attention, instead just focusing the styrofoam cup he pours the coffee to.