In this blog I have answered the questions from the Proust Questionnaire. The purpose of the questionnaire is to provide an individual's true nature. This should give you a good insight on me at the moment, but the answers are subject to change do to mood and life experience. __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being on vacation with my family and friends. __2.__What is your greatest fear? My daughter dying. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Laziness __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? Prejudice __5.__Which living person do you most admire? My sister. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? Travel. __7.__What is your current state of mind? Anxious __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Orderliness __9.__On what occasion do you lie? To spare some else pain. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? Wrinkles __11.__Which living person do you most despise? Donald Trump __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? A sense of humor. __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Strength __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Get over it. __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? My daughter __16.__When and where were you happiest? On vacation in Newfoundland __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? To be a concert pianist. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My age. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? My daughter. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? My dog. __21.__Where would you most like to live? St. Johns Newfoundland in the summer and St. Johns U.S. Virgin Islands in the winter. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My grandmothers table from China. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? To not be able to help my loved ones. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? Pushing scared skydivers out of planes. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? A need to be independent. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty __27.__Who are your favorite writers? Tolken __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? Gandalf __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? Queen Elizabeth I __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? Oprah, Elanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart __31.__What are your favorite names? Elise and Alice __32.__What is it that you most dislike? Stupidity __33.__What is your greatest regret? I wish I would have decided on a career earlier in life. __34.__How would you like to die? In my sleep. __35.__What is your motto? All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. (Gandalf)
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The assignment for my English Composition 1 class was to read and choose three quotes from the following articles: Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray), The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova), and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Ann Lamott). I was then to add three quotes of my own to this blog. Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
“Don’t look back. Yes, the draft needs fixing. But first it needs writing.” Don Murray “Be patient, listen quietly, the writing will come. The voice of the writing will tell you what to do.” Don Murray “Writing is primarily not a matter of talent, of dedication, of vision, of vocabulary, of style, but simply a matter of sitting. The writer is a person who writes.” Don Murray The Daily Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” E.B. White “I’m always in a hurry to get going, though in general I dislike starting the day.” Simone de Beauvoir “Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.” Ernest Hemingway Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) “You don’t have to see where you are going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you.” (Anne Lamott) “the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.” (Anne Lamott) “I don’t think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough at it, and I don’t think you have time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect.” (Anne Lamott) My own writing process Don’t Panic. Breath and know you can do this. Just write the first sentence. Get up and get a treat. There are much larger obstacles in life than this. |
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