thisweek...

...I continued reading the Ivy Chronicles, which I really like. Ivy Ames,the main-character, told the parents, or her clients, to create a few paragraphs about their child, which she would edit into profiles. The first she received, was, well, horrible, she had to have her professional-writer-friend to make it sound the slightest appealing. Ivy also attended to her personal life, she got to know her neighbors, one , a cook named Michael, who owned a very famous deli downstairs (from her apartment), who's regulars included Oprah and Hilary Clinton. Another, a writer, named Philip, got used to the noise from her children playing in the very rare backyard, I remind you this in the middle of New York City, he even moved his desk/office from the back of his apartment to the front.
I also worked on my "writers notebook", I continued writing a few writing prompts throughout the week, one being an invention which i wanted "destroyed", a chose cars, I just feel like our generation as become accustomed to very lazy behavior. Also, I read a short comic, with no words, I created a short story-line on how all of the characters (in the comic) got into this "messy" situation. I based the situation on sibling rivalry, which I fortunately don't have to partake in, where they all blamed the "slacker" of the family, for the food fight caused at their "mother's" birthday party. I also added in that this "sly" looking character in the background caused the mayhem in the dining room by stealing all of his grandmothers birthday presents. He was unfortunately surprised at the presents, being one a shower cap. He decided the only thing he could do in a situation like this was to join in with a piece of cake and laugh.
Also, we were to write an affect-effect story based on Grammar Girl's entry, on how to differentiate between them. Affect is what affected the "aardvark", and Effect is how the reaction was. I chose a strange story about me and a friend, and how an elderly woman came up to us whispering in our ears, "vote for Obama", anyways it was very strange, which is exactly why I chose it for the writing prompt. Being creative and differant is exactly what writing is about, uniqueness.