The journal of Chad Zahara.
My Twenty-First Birthday.
Yesterday was my Twenty-First Birthday and I spent it with my family and pal Stephanie. Well, mostly with Stephanie. She came over after classes and gave me two awesome books and two squishy swords which led to many epic duels; and will certainly lead to more. She also gave me a witty card which, for [...]
Plasticine puppets.
I have just come home from my Intermediate Creative Writing class and would like to share what I wrote in it. Our assignment was create a little plasticine puppet, then to write a short narration, dialogue, or monologue for them. We had fifteen minutes to write and, using an old idea of mine for a [...]
Reviews and analysis leech my energy.
Yesterday I wrote an entry about a book which I had recently finished reading. I wrote it in a rush, not really thinking about what I was writing. The entry turned into part synopsis, part opinion, but accomplished neither well. This has reminded me of how much I despise writing reviews. Reviews and analysis leech [...]
New Year’s Eve in New Orleans
Last night was my favourite New Year’s Eve since 1999. I was going to write up a short summary of the night until I noticed that my guest, Stephanie (not to be confused with my sister Stephanie whom was also there), has already written an entry on it. So I shall link to her entry [...]
Happy New Year!
I cannot promise anything, as I have found life too distracting to blog sometimes, but I will say that over the next year I do intend to write more. I hope that everyone had a wonderful night; I sure did!
