Writing. To Create.
Kalynn Hawkins' Writing Capstone Portfolio
Minor in Writing Program
The Minor In Writing Program at the University of Michigan offered an area of study utilized specifically for students interested in critiquing and challenging their writing on multiple formats. Those include, but aren't limited to, Poetry, Screenwriting, Songwriting, Multimedia Aspects, Fiction, Short Stories, Creative Writing, Novels, etc. The minor helps students develop their academic, professional, and personal writing abilities. Thorugh the program, courses are taken that tailor specifically to students needs, interests, and future writing goals. The Capstone Course concludes the Minor and shows the evolution of the students writing during their program.
Listed below are many, but not all of my blog posts during the MIW Program. I wanted to incorporate the changes in my blogging over the course of my minor. My frst blog posts are very broad focusing on a variety of things. My middle-last blog posts focus on topic-specific information pertinent to my interests and fields of study. Feel free to browse through my blogging as my development changes through the MIW Program.
MIW Course Blog from other MIW students
She, like many others, does indeed love quotes,memorably because they capture the thought that once was, the idea that may have vanished, the quotation that is no more. Similar to her finding herself: she hasn’t lost who she was, but she’s just now figuring it out.
The purpose of a great story wasn’t the stories’ originality (because nothing in this life is original; everything has been repeated and altered, tweaked even in the smallest sense) but,the story tellers own, personal story. The personal way we as people tell stories is more unique, more authentic, and more “storytelling-ish”.
When I eat a bagel I like to take things slowly. Sometimes I want cream cheese, other days, I don’t. Sometimes I want it toasted, other days I don’t. Sometimes I even want a sweet cinnamon swirl bagel, other days I (you guessed it!)…want a plain one. The main question here is: Are all bagels edible?
If you’re like me and hate dressing up for interviews, you may understand my ranting. I had two interviews last week and one this week that I ended up declining. I still have another sometime next month and a phone interview that waits for the day that I’m of course, not prepared. How do you feel about interviews?
I like laughing, people that make me laugh, people that laugh with me, and people that laugh at themselves (we’re pretty funny individuals). Cookies & Cream. Hot yoga. Glamour Magazine. Neutral colors. Fluffy hats. Chrysanthemums. Secrets. Hidden smiles. Manicured nails. Massages. Family. Chunky babies. Pugs. Old people with teeth.
The inner core of my writing was so close to my soul that I didn’t want to share my experiences with any of my readers. I wanted to showcase how great of a writer I was, without mentioning my life experiences to get there. I was lost in a sphere of thinking I knew where I was and once I found myself (naked page, blinking cursor, easy prompt)...
One of my favorite writers, Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday passed a few weeks ago (January 7, 1891; she would’ve been 123 years old this year;-0 ). (You may have seen/read on of her books, Their Eye’s Were Watching God)...
Being a bilingual student of American Sign Language, I find these facts intriguing. The pictures jumped off of the screen and into my bedroom as I watched two very different signers communicate in very different ways. The woman (whose name is Carol, she is also a professor at The Galludet School for the Deaf)...