Essay
My Study Books
To be honest I am looking for support in a new venture in writing. I am going to start to write my own study books from all the courses that I have taken from maybe middle school through graduate school. I have been re-reading some of my old textbooks and going over all my old notebooks and I thought why not make these into books. What do you think? As I was a teacher education major as well as a few other professions it would be a good thing, I thought, to offer all my material for future students. Comment.
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Critique
What is a Vision?
Who knows what a vision really is? To me a vision is something that we want to see and hopefully come to fruition some way or how to show that we have lived the way that we want and wanted. I believe that I have several visions, and some have actually occurred. My first vision was to one day get my advanced degrees, my second was to write a poetry book and get it published even though it didn't sell. I am trying this one again for I wrote a few Art picture books and a text/workbook for Barnes and Nobels Book Nook in the form of eBooks, but so far, no takers, but still hoping.
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Critique
We Will Never Forget!
I was just waking up that morning after working a double-shifting weekend as a nurse. Mondays were always like a lost day for me back then for working those long weekends. September 11, 2001, was a day that is another Day of Infamy in the history books just like Pearl Harbor had become. My memory is while sitting on the couch watching 'Good Morning America' and seeing those planes flying really low I was wondering why are they flying so low and then crash and smoke. I just stared at the screen as kids today watch their screens. Always remember.
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Critique
The Fall of NaNoWriMo
With the fall season just inching its way into the next couple of weeks, and with me on the bend writing until the late late hours as of late. I thought it would be a neat idea to jump back into the National November Writing Month contest here at NaNoWriMo and really push myself to write 50 thousand words in a month, or finish my book I started at the beginning of the year. I was met with a 404: Webpage cannot be Found web break page when I went to log in to the critically acclaimed website that I had started writing/logging my word count with since 2014.
By Parsley Rose 4 months ago in Critique
Generative AI & Knowledge Gaps
Introduction: The New Knowledge Divide Generative AI promises to democratize creativity and knowledge, making vast worlds of text, images, and ideas accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Yet beneath this promise lies a troubling paradox: the very data on which these systems are trained reflects a deep imbalance in whose voices, values, and philosophies count as knowledge.
By David Thusi4 months ago in Critique
So I watched Wednesday...again. Content Warning.
This week, I watched Wednesday, Season Two Part Two on Netflix and I have more notes than I did when I first watched Wednesday on Netflix in 2022. Someone told me to watch The Vanity Fair interview on YouTube because my theory corresponds with something Jenna Ortega had said in the interview.
By Parsley Rose 4 months ago in Critique
Locker Days
It's that time of year again. Those days of lockers that seemed to fail you one way or another. For me it never seems to fail when I had to ride the bus, and it was running late for that meant you will be running late, and that meant for some reason the darn locker would not open for you remembered your combination, nothing was stuck that stopped it from opening. The warning bell went off and you try a few more times maybe you went a tad too far in clicks, but the final bell rang, and you give it one good kick, and it opens. You practically had to run to homeroom before the classroom door shuts, and you are marked absent for no fault of your own. How many of you remember such things happen to you in those halcyon days of yore, come on be honest.
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Critique
Overcoming Writer's Block
Bruce Springsteen was frustrated and exhausted when his manager, Jon Landau, insisted he write a preeminent single for his 1984 album “Born in the U.S.A.” By that point, Springsteen had already written over 80 songs for the album, yet a standout single still eluded him. Returning to his hotel later that evening, Springsteen poured all of his pent-up angst and frustration into the song “Dancing in the Dark”, wherein he grapples with the “joke[s]” that are writer’s block and self-doubt, as well as how the external pressures of the music industry and his own audience can stifle creativity and personal growth.
By Strange Overtones4 months ago in Critique
So I watched Wednesday ...again. . Content Warning.
So I watched Wednesday again on Netflix. Following the release of the second half of season two on Wednesday, September 3, 2025; I was inspired to start again at Season One. A whole new world started to re-weave itself around me. In this little part two of So I watched..., I wanted to discuss what in my weed-enduced psychosis I found in the underlining story that writer Tim Burton shares with us.
By Parsley Rose 4 months ago in Critique
My Favorite Dead Writer
Oh, what is this Facebook thing I keep hearing about. Is it like radio for I believe it is for there are programs one can listen. I am Maragret Mitchell that wrote a Civil War epic entitled 'Gone with the Wind' in the year of our Lord 1939. We are on the brink of another war to end all wars, and my book is one the shows how war affects the one's left at home to deal with the many challenges of just being able to survive. 'Gone with the Wind' is a story of a family The O'Hara's who believed in a system that seemed right for them, but not for society in general that had many right and wrong ideas of how to see 'others' as this guy Hitler that I keep hearing about in Germany.
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Critique
Back to School Again
Another school year is upon us now and memories abound for all ages. Do you remember that first day of elementary, middle school, high school even or college. The thoughts you had or for some still have. You see old friends and maybe even make some new. Wondering what you heard was true or false of the teachers you will be learning. Another year of questions and answers that will maybe leave you pondering with your own thoughts on how to achieve what you need to achieve and understand how everything may or may not fit into our daily lives.
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Critique
