Derek!

What is a text? What is reading? What is writing?
As you guys might think, text is just a whole bunch of words. You guys also might think that reading a whole bunch of words and that writing is writing a whole bunch of words. At first, I thought this was text, reading, and writing. Now I know that I am WRONG. Text is more than just words. Text is active. It comes in different forms like paintings, photographs, and even video games. Text is self expression, art, and you even learn things from text. The most important thing about a text though, is that it has to carry a message that can be read by other people. Reading is more than just reading words. Reading understands the message that is meant to be carried, understanding some ones self expression, understanding some ones art, and understanding something that somebody put their heart and soul into. Writing is not only writing words, it is making something that carries your message out to the world. It is making something that at least one person can understand.

What texts do I like? What do I like to read? What do I like to write?
Texts that I like are written texts from novels, paintings, videos of all sorts, photography, especially video games, and more. I’m not sure if I have the ability to read text (except for novels and text books, of course), but I think that by the end of the school year or even before that, I think I can understand somebody’s self expression. I especially want to read paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. He is my favourite painter. Who is your favourite painter?                             

Here is a picture of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

 Also here is a link to a website about Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. http://www.vangoghgallery.com/.

For writing, I think I am a good writer for novels. Sometimes, I think of ideas of a story in my head. One time when I was playing “house” with Kate and Ashley, I was an author. I had written a book in a game and some people made it into a movie. When I was telling Ashley (being my daughter for house) about the book I written, she said that she actually thought it sounded good. Now, maybe that is something I would like to consider, being a writer and all, but I would still like to try different things. I also like drawing, even though I’m not too good at it :).

That’s about it!!

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