RIP School Survival Forums
August 2001 - June 2017
The School Survival Forums are permanently retired. If you need help with quitting school, unsupportive parents or anything else, there is a list of resources on the Help Page.
If you want to write about your experiences in school, you can write on our blog.
To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
The forums are mostly read-only and are in a maintenance/testing phase, before being permanently archived. Please use this time to get the contact details of people you'd like to keep in touch with.
My contact details are here.
Please do not make a mirror copy of the forums in their current state - things will still change, and some people have requested to be able to edit or delete some of their personal info.
Thread Rating:
- 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
|
A vignette?
|
| Author |
Message |
whole.cult
Rebel
Posts: 34
Joined: Feb 2009
Thanks: 0
Given 0 thank(s) in 0 post(s)
|
A vignette?
I have a write a vignette for English, either that or a narcissistic letter. I'd choose the former. I'm not sure how to write it though. Developing a moment in time for this is like this ineffably difficult task for me. Supposedly, we were supposed to write a moment from a few years back, at least. Therefore, we would have a more juvenile voice and style, but the idea is awful. I don't know how to do that. I want to write about something more recent and more significant to shaping my character than some silly ordeal with my brother or something. How would you write a general vignette?
"Life is just one damned thing after another." -- Elbert Hubbard
|
|
| 02-18-2010 10:59 AM |
|
 Thanks given by: | |
|
magikarp
Valerie Solanas
Posts: 1,146
Joined: Jan 2007
Thanks: 4
Given 68 thank(s) in 47 post(s)
|
Re: A vignette?
Does it have to be in the present tense? You might be able to get away without the juvenile voice if you're allowed to write it as a retelling of the scene some time after it happened.
"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
|
|
| 02-18-2010 11:24 AM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
whole.cult
Rebel
Posts: 34
Joined: Feb 2009
Thanks: 0
Given 0 thank(s) in 0 post(s)
|
Re: A vignette?
The assignment never specified a tone of voice. But vignettes by Maya Angelou were given as examples, with the young style of writing. Our teacher is stressing "voice" in this. I guess it's like recalling whatever happened as if it were around that time period, when your personality and all that shizz is the same.
"Life is just one damned thing after another." -- Elbert Hubbard
|
|
| 02-18-2010 11:26 AM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
returnal
cold like minnesota (brrr!)
Posts: 3,082
Joined: Jun 2007
Thanks: 0
Given 29 thank(s) in 26 post(s)
|
Re: A vignette?
whole.cult Wrote:we would have a more juvenile voice and style, but the idea is awful.
Mrs. (YEAHTHATSHERNAMEBISH) never said that exactly, it was just something you could put in if you chose (FOR LIKE REALISTIC EFFECT!).
I prefer writing shitty fake letters dealing with narcissistic douchewits.
Also, it was Sandra Cisneros, not Maya Angelou.
woah dude
dude woah
|
|
| 02-18-2010 01:49 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
Aviator
Pariah
Posts: 538
Joined: Nov 2008
Thanks: 0
Given 7 thank(s) in 6 post(s)
|
Re: A vignette?
A vignette is simply a story. It doesn't have to be real, and it doesn't even have to have a super developing plot. It's simple purpose is revealing something about the author through the telling of a story or description of a situation. You can write it from whatever point in time you like, from whatever perspective you like - just make it your own.
Don't worry about writing it from a "younger" frame of mind or anything like that - some people can pull it off, and others can't. Really, the point of writing from a younger point of view is to show how that person saw the world at that point in time - usually at a moment that changed their perception of the world.
But, like I said, you don't have to do that at all. The great thing about writing is that it's not "wrong", it's... yours. Do what you want with it - because your best pieces are not those painted within the tight constriction of a jail cell, they are those composed while your heart is free.
And that's the point of a vignette, whether your English teacher thinks so or not.
It is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission. - Neal Vitale
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun.
Everyone can back up their opinions. Some people just do it a whole lot better than others. - Rebelnerd
Here's to the men and women who did what was considered wrong, in order to do what they knew was right.
'Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?'" - JK Rowling
|
|
| 02-21-2010 03:31 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
Search
Member List
Calendar
Help
/
A vignette?
