For 3 stars this week, I watched a movie for homework! “Write a review of a movie.” In sticking with the theme of horror, I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.  It had an interesting opening, and I didn’t really think that... Continue Reading →

Vonnegut’s story curves all share one thing in common, by the time the story reaches “electricity” the character is in high heaven. That is where horror often deviates from the typical story. Shadows on the wall starts with a Cinderella beginning, that is,  life is horrible for the main characters, but things get steadily worse […]

Hello everyone. My name is Eve Winters and I am Lana Winters’ daughter. For those of you who don’t know, Lana was once a patient at Briarcliff Manor, an insane asylum. While she was there, Oliver Thredson was her psychiatrist. Little did anyone know he was also the mass murderer Bloody Face. My mother was kidnapped from … Continue reading Host Character Intro

For this post, I read Last Respects and the Lottery, figuring I could not simply ride my way through the week with my preference of old thrillers. Both stories share a lot of similarities.  Neither one really brings the supernatural to play, only bona-fide just slightly over the edge human. The fact that these stories […]

As I have mentioned before, I am a fan of old media. What I remember from Rod Sirling and Alfred Hitchcock are hosts who let the show do the thrilling. They would dramatically give the same style of introduction, and you might not see them again for the rest of the movie. Granted, some you […]

Huh…This week was a tough one for me. I was really busy so I didn’t really have all the time in the world you know. I did try really hard to get this week done. I think the videos and reading in step one was the most time consuming part, but I made it through. … Continue reading Weekly Summary

I am not a fan of instagram. I AM a fan of assignments poking fun at instagram. I am not a fan of people describing food. I AM a fan of food in general though, so I figured I would have to compromise. Besides, the ol’ vocabulary could always use a workout, and this assignment […]

I like Vonnegut’s method because it shows very clearly the happenings of a story. It demonstrates the depth of a story and what happens in it. I decided to apply Vonnegut’s method to Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and came up with: As you can see the story starts out pretty good. Everyone in town is gathering and conversing as if … Continue reading The Shape of Stories

Meet 5: she is 5yrs old and she is from India… There is something a little different about 5 though… I mean away from the fact the she is a soft speaking child… But that she is a ghost…Soft spoken child. She’s a thousand years old ghost

As will be a theme in my posts, I feel that authenticity is a hallmark of good stories (Seriously, I read non-fiction for fun when I was in elementary school). As a result, I jump at opportunities to explain my actions. As a weird personality quirk, I don’t like talking about who I am, but […]

In the story Last Respects, the character Anthony never really went above the midpoint line. He started out sad because his beloved was dead. When he made it to her grave he couldn’t open her coffin so he just sat there in the rain. He got locked in the grave and he died there because … Continue reading Shape of a Story

For this assignment, I wanted to do the opposite of what was implied in the description. Rather than describe someone who shouldn’t be teaching because they are incompetent or inappropriate, I wanted to put someone in who was overqualified for the position, and simply couldn’t tone down for the audience. What topi could be more […]

I’ve never read a comic in this series before but when I was younger I watched the TV version of Tales from the Crypt fairly regularly. Starting the comic, I wasn’t sure where the twist would be or what significant spookiness there’d be but I can surely say that it delivered in the end. I’m … Continue reading Response to Last Respects →

Week three has been a rough one, I wouldn’t just assignment wise but sadly I got some sort of bug thats been going around, and it just seems to get worse and worse every day. I was fine up until Wednesday, luckily I start my work typically on Sundays so by Wednesday I was practically […]

Another project I chose out of the writing section of the Assignment Bank this week weighing in at a hefty 2 stars is titled Your Adventure is Over. The object of this project was to write a “You chose wrong” scene after you supposedly choose the wrong path in a choose your own adventure style setting. … Continue reading You Chose Wrong. *o*

This week was all about writing. I did three writing assignments from the assignment bank: a diary entry from a Disney villain point of view,  a story about a picture of a dog in a very small doggie bed, and thoughts about a life in a different persons body. These were all interesting and made … Continue reading Week 3 Summary →

This week was not as challenging as the previous weeks in my opinion. I enjoyed learning what a host character was and coming up with one of my own. The writing assignments were tough and I found it difficult to come up with a couple things but it wasn’t too awful. My favorite part was […]

I changed up one letter in the title of a movie and it changed a great amount. I present a piece of the story board for “Last and Furious” "The Last and the Furious" @ds106dc #tdc1342 pic.twitter.com/wcJCVzWHkW — Aaron Dyke (@datdyke) September 11, 2015

My name is Gory Collins. I was born in Nebraska in the woods. My mother and father went missing when I was seven so I was raised by my great-uncle and second cousin. I enjoy walking through cemeteries and eating brunch with different tombstones. At night, I sing carols to my mirror while I drink […]

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I saw that this week The Lottery was a popular pick, most likely resulting from the reference by King in Tales of the Hook that we all read. I was also curious and hence my thoughts on The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. This was a really entertaining short-story. Yes, people got stoned(lol cuz I’m clearly 5) … Continue reading -On The Lottery and Last Respects-

  In a land filled to the brim with magic and wonder, it was no surprise that some creatures found themselves more well-adjusted than others. One such creature was an incredibly intelligent echidna named Go. He was a simple mammal that spent most of his time combing his mohawk and doing pushups. Whenever he wasn’t … Continue reading Go the Echidna (Try to guess the 10 random words!) →

This writing assignment caught my eye because I just recently started the Grey’s Anatomy series after finishing One Tree Hill so I figured I had to do it! Grey’s Anatomy is a series that captures the life of surgeons and interns becoming surgeons. Throughout the show, the cast is seen inside of the hospital and in […]

Haiku About Haiku  Haikus are so fun. Japanese form of writing. Counting syllables. Five, seven, then five. Three verses per each stanza. Capturing feeling. Prompts to inspire. Used to create an emotion. A Haiku for you. #WritingAssignments #WritingAssignments1764

If I could be someone else in the world anyone in the world, it would be my mother.  Not my mother as she is now; but the mother I remember as I was growing up.  I used to watch her dress in the morning and do her hair, she would curl it in spirals, and … Continue reading If I could be

Kurt Vonnegut gave an interesting way to visualize stories thought a graph of plotting the plot of the story as a function of time and fortune.  The graph looks a little something like this. Anthony, the main character, was a limo driver, and average life. One day he met the love of his life Anna, the woman … Continue reading The Shape of ‘Last Respects’ →

Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer who published many books and articles. The youtube video we watched on his was about him explaining how all stories are virtually the same and follow the same pattern on events depending on how the story starts out. He starts by drawing a line and calls it the B-E […]

The two different horror medias I read/listened to were “Last Respects” by Tales from the Crypt and a Berenice reading by Dr. John audiobook. First and foremost, both medias displayed creepy media. The Edgar Allan Poe reading was made on a picture that can be seen at the bottom of this initial description. The Tales from the Crypt […]