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Subject: YWAK entry essays


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Stew
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Date Posted: 20:43:58 11/09/01 Fri
 I was just thinking, what were everyone's essays in order to get into the wonderful thing known as YWAK? Were any or all the same haphazard pile of melodramatic good-grammar laden b.s. that mine was? For instance, here was mine (I won't be the least bit offended if you don't read it.)

A lone figure hunches over a computer keyboard. He squints at a blank computer monitor, eyes wincing from the contrast between the dark room and the painfully bright computer screen. Tauntingly, the monitor stares back at him with one giant, bright white, square eye, challenging him to blacken it with words. I have to write a poem for my Advanced Creative Writing class, and I cannot think of anything to write about. The problem is no stranger to me, as I have been plagued by it for many months now. I have run out of inspiration. There is nothing left in my small hometown of East Grand Rapids that inspires me. Once I had plenty of ideas, but now every attempted subject becomes a victim of poetic injustices. Each is rejected after hours are wastefully spent trying to squeeze something decent out of a now-uninspiring subject. I have written about every imaginable topic my small town offers; yet every new work is paraphrasing something I have written before. I miss the days when I would have so many ideas that I'd walk home from school excited and happy while scribbling the makings of a short story onto the first piece of paper I could find.

I need to get OUT! Ideas came easily once, but now each day seems to be an apathetic duplicate of the last. A simple change of scenery for even two weeks could give me a million things to think about, reflect on, and write my heart out about. To feast my eyes on the tiny slice of the American apple pie that is Kenyon would be a very inspirational and educational experience. This program could greatly improve my writing skills as well, and it would be a great honor and opportunity if I could participate.

Great heaps of drivel, isn't it? How about the rest of you lot?


"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
-Pablo Picasso
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Re: YWAK entry essaysLiz Lopatto20:32:46 11/10/01 Sat
I don't remember anything after that brown acid...preston14:55:59 11/11/01 Sun

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