This week, we started a new project: This I Believe. We started this by watching some videos about telling stories. Some were just of people telling the stories, and some were more on the theory of what storytelling can do and how it should be done. These were cool to watch and think about, but they were really just lead up into the actual assignment. Our goal for the project is to write a story about a belief that we have, then turn it into a video. This scared me at first. I felt self conscious about the idea of talking about myself, and I really didn’t like the idea of recording my voice. That started to fade away though, as I focused on the task at hand. Beliefs make up who we are, and it was really cool to start thinking about my own. It’s also different from most of the other projects that we’ve done, since those were about something we’ve read. This is the first project we’ve done about ourselves. This really breaks into a new part of your brain, as it is more personal, and less formal. I had a hard time coming up with ideas. I used websites like this to help me get closer, but they couldn’t quite get me all the way there. I eventually decided to write about my animals, since that was something safe yet meaningful. As I was writing it, ideas really started to break out. I think the problem was that I just didn’t feel comfortable about writing about myself, so I just didn’t come up with ideas. I think that this project is really good for learning to write in a different way.
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