Book of Eli

Digital storytelling is something that is not new to me. I have been making videos for myself with my brother for as long as I can remember. Making videos for academics has always scared me though. Most of the videos I have created were considered sketch comedy or terrible lip syncing music videos of Katy Perry when I was a young boy. I had an obsession with Katy Perry, what can I say? My biggest and best creation was a video my brother and I created called Cheese and Crackers. It was a parody of Dora the Explorer and Boots, but for more adult audiences. I still have the video, but am too embarrassed to share it. That video was particularly special for me, because my brother and I could not drive so we biked around our area and filmed in places that were familiar to us. On page 10 of the pdf from "Place-Based Digital Storytelling" by Chisholm and Trent, I really like what Riley says at the end of the article in her interview with Ms. Trent, "I realize that it is what...

 Writing, what is writing? How do you write, why do you write? All valid questions, but I am here to discuss the writing process I use. In the Spandel text from chapter five, Spandel quotes Stephen King and says he writes roughly 2000 words a day, which is about 10 pages. I do not do that, I am not a mad man, but I do try to write everyday. The writing could be in my journal, on Letterboxd after I watch a movie, doing homework, or if I am feeling real crazy I will write a letter. The letter is a bit strange. I write a letter to my future self in the back of my journal. The front is dark and gloomy, full of strange emotions and foggy rants, and the back is motivative and goal-oriented. When they meet in the middle, I have no idea what will happen, maybe a black hole will form.  Writing for me is a dump of words, phrases, thoughts, and language. I dump ideas on a page and keep writing until I am out of ideas. This is how I form my "body paragraphs" then I leave it how it is for...