I feel as though the most logical decision on a theme for me would have to be the Family/ Relationship theme.  As a person who in the past has struggled with writing and and keeping up with English work I know i have to pick a theme that I am passionate about.  Since a very young age I have always been interested in the relationships and lives of people. Thinking about all of the assignments this semester I have a numerous ideas for each. For the personal one, I would want to detail a past relationship I had and the escape that I inevitably had to make from it. for the ethnology portion I want to research the relationships going on in the gay bar that I work at and see how relationships differ between the communities.  My argument would more than likely be about why the hookup culture is very large in the gay community and how it gives a negative impact on homosexuals as for the photo essay, I think I am going to detail an event in the community such as the 10 year commemoration for the incident that happened at Puzzles a gay bar in New Bedford.

At the age of twelve, I was almost one hundred percent sure that I was going to be a famous author. I wrote stories almost every single day. I personally thought that I was the best I wanted to write stories like J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl. I thought that I was  completely set, until i realized that my stories were god awful. The stories that i would write were just really bad rehashes of already famous stories and I didn’t realize this until when I hit sixth grade or so and I got a D on a creative writing assignment. “Not an Original Idea” was scrawled across the top in red pen.  As one can imagine, that completely discouraged me, however slowly but surely i have been getting back into writing. though some of it is forced through  school I have gotten to the point of generally wanting to write again. One of the points that the article made was that writers need to write and revise constantly, something that I didn’t do. Once i finished things i was done no one could tell me to edit it, they didn’t know it was mine and it was perfect. A professor that i had for theatre in my first year of college that when you’re writing something that you have to “Back your character up into a tree, and then throw rocks at them.”  keep giving them challenges and once they get away from those challenged throw more at them. When writing that I keep that in the back of my mind knowing that in order to keep people interested i need to keep giving challenges. Needless to say this has helped me enjoy writing again, and I am happy that I am excited about it again.