I Want Dessert!

“Conflict is when there are two or more people or forces that want the same thing or want to keep the other force or forces from doing or getting what they want. Think about the most exciting parts of the books you’ve read. You’ll find that those parts are the ones in which the most clearly defined.

This same situation is true in stories. People love to read about conflict in fact, all the stories are based on conflict because this is what stories are: incidents in which conflict is resolved.

 In this exercise you’ll have a chance to create a conflict and its outcome. This exercise has three parts. You will:

1. Create characters

2. Put the characters in opposition

3. Solve this conflict the characters have”

            Excerpt from Writing Strands Level 6, lesson #3, pg 13

Dear reader,

            I wrote this piece at the age of sixteen while learning about conflict. I hope that you find it interesting and informative. I did not change any of the original content except for punctuation. Without further ADO I give you…

Writing Strands Book 6 Lesson 1

I Want Desert!

Janet Williams had just finished setting the table when her husband Fred walked into the dining room from the pantry.

            Fred smiled with satisfaction and said, “Well, I just finished putting the last of the groceries away. How are things coming in the supper department?”

Same Land

3/13/2012

A Report to the General Public on the Effects of Like Mindedness in a Newly Discovered Country

Dear Reader,

            I have recently spent an intrigue-filled week in Same Land. This short report should help you to better understand the gift of difference in opinions and in life experiences. My personal experience in Same Land was something of a small revelation in and of itself. I expected an intricate and well-developed society, but got a shallow unsatisfying world.

            I hope my self-imposed work will educate you and the rest of the general public on the beauty of opinions.

            The newly discovered island of Same Land, located east of the Bermuda Triangle, is a very exciting and novelty filled country. Of course that reference applies to only those who have never visited such an island. As with most new things, namely Same Land, the novelty quickly wears off. Especially when thinking about taking up a residence in such a place.

            At first all the differences from our culture and society compared to theirs, seem exciting and new. However the ideas that seem new, quickly manifest themselves into ones that have been around for some time. In fact realization strikes that the ideas in Same Land have remained the same for quite some time. The more time one spends in Same Land the more one realizes that the disagreements back home, due to differences in taste, don’t seem quite so bad. For instance…

            When I first arrived in Same Land, by way of boat, I noticed I was hungry. I signaled for a cab and soon found myself riding down the highway in a blue taxicab. I asked the driver, “Since this is Same Land are all the taxis blue?”