Personal Writing

Indiego

So what did everyone write for their personal writing in paper 1 today?
I chose Q6, the one about needing courage to get through the day, I basically wrote about a blind girl who was being bullied in school, and went into loads of descriptions about how she can hear things, like the wind, rain, birds, and how she can appreciate beauty in the world blah blah blah, and then one day she gets attacked by the people who bully her and they push her infront of a car and she dies depressing... but i ended it with a quote XD

tl;dr So what did you do for yours?

mixery

The social networking one(of course). Took me 3 pages. I've put in some famous quotes and a lot of scientific bull about how bad facebook is for your health. I was so inspired I finished in no-time .

robman60

Indiego, that seems pretty good, if only for its emotional impact.

I chose things that fill me with wonder. I wrote about the beauty ofnature that is present in the wood near by house.

I think most of us will agree that we got really favourable essay titles. The only one that seemed remotely hard was the debate.

Title seven looked interesting for someone who wanted to be really creative.

Overall, I think the people who made the paper should be commended for their effort to introduce a much greater element of creativity. good job guys!

KatiesMusic96

I did the social networking one as well, managed to get 4 pages written in 40mins so I was pretty happy with it. The titles were really nice this year!

Indiego

robman60 wrote: »

Indiego, that seems pretty good, if only for its emotional impact.

I chose things that fill me with wonder. I wrote about the beauty ofnature that is present in the wood near by house.

I think most of us will agree that we got really favourable essay titles. The only one that seemed remotely hard was the debate.

Title seven looked interesting for someone who wanted to be really creative.

Overall, I think the people who made the paper should be commended for their effort to introduce a much greater element of creativity. good job guys!

Haha thanks :L I didnt really focus more on the story, i focused more on descriptions and an insight into her life, and just kind of fabricated a story around it to make it a bit more interesting :L

Yeah i really liked the titles this year, i had a hard time picking one :L

Cakes.

I chose the last one and wrote about two people who go exploring in a countryside and go into an abandoned masion and are up stairs and hear something and run out and the they go back a week later and the house isn't there anymmore :pac:

Moromaster

I loved the one that you had to include five of the phrases. It gave great direction.

P H A 7V T O M

I did a 5 page essay speech on how Facebook is slowly ruining peoples lives and how it encourages people to be a shallow and judgemental as possible. The examiner will lap it up, plus I wrote about something I personally strongly agree with.

DarkEagleEye

Indiego wrote: »

So what did everyone write for their personal writing in paper 1 today?
I chose Q6, the one about needing courage to get through the day, I basically wrote about a blind girl who was being bullied in school, and went into loads of descriptions about how she can hear things, like the wind, rain, birds, and how she can appreciate beauty in the world blah blah blah, and then one day she gets attacked by the people who bully her and they push her infront of a car and she dies depressing... but i ended it with a quote XD

tl;dr So what did you do for yours?

Wow, that story sounds very sad but the ending..is it that sudden?
Nice going dude, I would never had thought about that!

TehFionnster

I also did number 6 :P
I wrote about a guy who murders someone and he goes on trial and gets executed :P
It was more an insight into his psyche though :P

rainaa

i did number 3, an unexpected hero or heroine
fitted a story i had prepared perfectly, wrote 4/5 pages in 20 mins

Indiego

DarkEagleEye wrote: »

Wow, that story sounds very sad but the ending..is it that sudden?
Nice going dude, I would never had thought about that!

yeah i have a bad habit of writing depressing stories Well It wasnt that sudden, i wrote about how she was at the bus stop when she was grabbed by them and thrown on the road blah blah blah :L
haha thanks

innovation.

Cakesofrice wrote: »

I chose the last one and wrote about two people who go exploring in a countryside and go into an abandoned masion and are up stairs and hear something and run out and the they go back a week later and the house isn't there anymmore :pac:

I hope your essay wasn't like that. :P I went and then he went to the lake and then at the lake he seen a dog and then the dog ran away and then I chased the dog and the dog was brown. :P and xD

innovation.

Indiego wrote: »

yeah i have a bad habit of writing depressing stories Well It wasnt that sudden, i wrote about how she was at the bus stop when she was grabbed by them and thrown on the road blah blah blah :L
haha thanks

One thing though - what perspective were you writing in if you're describing what you can hear then you say how she was thrown on the road? :cool::P

innovation.

Oh yeah and I also did the courage one. I wrote about this guy who was 'popular' at school and was bored during his summer so him and his friends decide to go on a roadtrip travelling Ireland but then once of them betrays the rest for money. Two die and I'm the only survivor who manages to persuade a nice 'guard' to let me go. Then after that I suffered with trust problems and became loopy and emotional all of the time. xD

Yeah it sounds really bad. -sigh-

Cakes.

innovation. wrote: »

I hope your essay wasn't like that. :P I went and then he went to the lake and then at the lake he seen a dog and then the dog ran away and then I chased the dog and the dog was brown. :P and xD

:pac: No, I dragged it out some more and put in some fancy words.

Indiego

innovation. wrote: »

One thing though - what perspective were you writing in if you're describing what you can hear then you say how she was thrown on the road? :cool::P

well i didnt exactly say she was thrown on the road, thats me explaining what i wrote from my own perspective, in the story i goes somthing along the lines of 'it was eerily silent, i could feel their presence, omnipresent and lingering, like a calm before a storm. I felt her boney fingers wrap around my ankles and I was jerked off the bench, feeling the gravel under my feet as i fought against gravity, struggling to break free, but i knew resistance was futile. i was learning this slowly. evenything was muted, the cars grew quieter and and i could hear the blood coursing through my body' etc.etc.etc i did it from her perspective :L

Lollipop95

^ I wish I had your vocabularly!

Indiego

Lollipop95 wrote: »

^ I wish I had your vocabularly!

hahah thanks :L i have a pretty wide range of vocab under my belt, when i was younger i used to be obsessed with those 'word a day' things you can get :L

cantanstrophe

I did the "things that fill me with wonder", and basically bullshítted about how awesome humanity is.

P H A 7V T O M

cantanstrophe wrote: »

I did the "things that fill me with wonder", and basically bullshítted about how awesome humanity is.

"Humanitay haz rained viktoureus over the mani yeers, and will kill all them alionz from teh other planots"

God is jealous of humanity being a real thing. He is just some made up guy in Jesus' 420 mind****s, known as The Bible.

This is all quote.

cantanstrophe

P H A 7V T O M wrote: »

"Humanitay haz rained viktoureus over the mani yeers, and will kill all them alionz from teh other planots"

God is jealous of humanity being a real thing. He is just some made up guy in Jesus' 420 mind****s, known as The Bible.

This is all quote.

That's exactly what I wrote

anirishlad

Did the social networking one and argued how awesome it was and how ireland should become world leaders in social networking and social happyness

mixery

0_o I can understand you, but for me this is sickening. You become a shadow of yourself, live your life on-line.. And the health problems it can bring! Slowed reactions, no creativity, less capacity(your head is filled with BS, not something interesting) it can also lead to Schizophrenia. And there's hundreds more proved theories on effects it can have..
I mean - it's fine to just visit occasionally, write to a friend in Australia or whatever, but spending 50 or more hours monthly on it, and visiting it several times a day is a huge problem, and I see it all the time.

WTF is happening to the people of today.

I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings or whatever, you just mentioned a fragile topic.

Desire.

I did the one about courage. I was able to use my essay about a match. I just changed it so that I was low on confidence following a run of bad form.

Happy with it, nearly wrote four pages.

DarkEagleEye

I did the one about courage too. I wrote about a young boy who was hiding from monsters trying to get him. After a bit a character development, I ended it by saying the monsters were his parents bringing him to the dentist. Its from his perspective so I wrote what I thought he would feel.:rolleyes:

Got 3 pages done,Sound.

anirishlad

mixery wrote: »

0_o I can understand you, but for me this is sickening. You become a shadow of yourself, live your life on-line.. And the health problems it can bring! Slowed reactions, no creativity, less capacity(your head is filled with BS, not something interesting) it can also lead to Schizophrenia. And there's hundreds more proved theories on effects it can have..
I mean - it's fine to just visit occasionally, write to a friend in Australia or whatever, but spending 50 or more hours monthly on it, and visiting it several times a day is a huge problem, and I see it all the time.

WTF is happening to the people of today.

I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings or whatever, you just mentioned a fragile topic.

I dont even use facebook that much anyway,it just seemed easier for me

FatRat

Did "The best advice I was ever given"

I picked it so I could say the best advice I was given was about the future. By doing this, I can then write an essay about the future. By doing this, I completely copied the essay I did for the pres.

One thing for me is that I can never even attempt descriptive or dialogue essays. I also can't do debates well, at all. So, really, do only thing I ever do is discursive essays. Solely because I'm very bad at using descriptive text. Not my thing. Writing essays isn't my thing, apart from what I think. And real beliefs that I have. So that's all I write about. Making it discursive.

matthew8

Wrote about best advice I've ever been given which was don't trust anyone. First page was poor but really came into my own towards the end tosave hopes of an A. Hated the titles, I love writing out arguments but only on things I care about so I argued as to why you shouldn't trust anybody. I like the idea of writing a speech but the topics are always pointless things that are basically telling people how to live their lives (Why should people not be trusted to make personal decisions?)
rather than things that matter. The problem with examining speeches is that in reality they are 90% delivery. They also like for you to include telling people to imagine an image and other techniques which work with the riff-raff but get you nowhere in real life. Debate on something which affects me like the bailout would suit me.

Also to the poster above me I feel exactly the same way.

buyer95

Did anybody do the essay " My recipe for Happiness." It was a breeze. A very similar question was asked not too many years ago, I think, and I had it done out in class. It was about 3 pages

Colm!

Can someone give me the titles? I'm in TY, quite bored and wouldn't mind trying one of these questions :L

robman60

1. The best advice I was ever given.
2. Things that fill me with wonder.
3. Write a story that features an unlikely hero or heroine.
4. My recipe for happiness.
5. Write a speech for or against the motion "Social networking sites have had a predominately negative impact on the lives of teenagers".
6. Write a story beginning "I knew I would need a lot of courage to get through the day.."
7. Write a composition including at least five of these words or phrases:

-Oddly shaped
-little red car
-only another 800 to go
-silver key
-storm-laden clouds
-without stopping to think
-the smallest one imaginable
-black then purple then green
-with a deafening pop
-invincible
-it shimmered and floated
-a single earring

The boredom you mention is one of the main reasons I selected fifth year...:(

Eoin_Sheehy

I did the courage story, anyone else swear in theirs, I said "f**king extended metaphors" (long story!)

enchanted_hm

I loved the last one. It basically was write whatever the hell you want, just put these words into it ^.^

Desire.

robman60 wrote: »

The boredom you mention is one of the main reasons I selected fifth year...:(

Colm! wrote: »

Can someone give me the titles? I'm in TY, quite bored and wouldn't mind trying one of these questions :L

It's summer anyway so would the year you're in not be a bit irrelevant?

Colm!

Yeah, TY was far from boring, TOTALLY epic, I just needed to point out "I'm not in 3rd year, so I need the title list from one of ye."

Thanks Robman. Sound. Looking at that list, I'd probably lean more for no. 7, but right now I've no idea what phrases I'd use, or how I'd link them. It's an odd one though, don't think I've seen that type of question on a paper before.

enchanted_hm

Colm! wrote: »

Can someone give me the titles? I'm in TY, quite bored and wouldn't mind trying one of these questions :L

examinations.ie has the exam paper up already ^.^

9Elliexx9

enchanted_hm wrote: »

I loved the last one. It basically was write whatever the hell you want, just put these words into it ^.^

Oh I did that one, I was so happy when that came up, I had a story written from before that I could fit the 5 into PERFECTLY!