What Am I doing

Ok. I've spent a lot of time trying to decide on a project that would be fun to work on, and reasonably completable by the end of the semester. My first thought was to write a novella, because that is something that I have always wanted to do, and I have an idea in my head. But when I sat down and started writing, I realized that in no way would it be possible for me to complete it before the years end. So, I scrachted the idea of novel. This all happened the week before break. I wanted to do a project that I would enjoy working on, not just working to get it done. I thought about doing something about music, and figured that song writing and critiquing those songs would be a good idea. Songwriting is somewhat tied into English and literature, but while researching the actual writing of it, all I could find were informal pieces on how to improve songwriting; nothing I found would be valid sources for a research paper. While on my plane home from my spring break vacation, I tried writing something...in fact anything. With that, i decided that I am going to write a screenplay. Using the plot idea that I had for my original project (the novella), I am going to write a script for the silver screen. My research paper will be based on medical malpractice. My project will be a fictional story involving medical malpractice. My final presentation will be on what it takes to write a screenplay. Thank you and good night.

For the week my plans are...
-To get two or three books on medical malpractice
-To start writing the screenplay

Project 4th Marking Period Project.

For my fourth marking period project, I plan on writing a novella (anywhere between 50-100 pages long). I recently researched how to write in this style. I have some ideas in my head, and have already created a character list. A brief outline of my plans: the story involves a family settled in a very normal surburban town. The family is well respected and loved by the community and each other, but a medical incident involving the mother, tears everything apart. The story is narrated by youngest child Anthony, and documents and discribes the mental and emotional hardships of his family. Due to the new found use of wiki's in our classroom, I plan on uploading all of my research and outlining and writing into a wiki that I will create myself. This will serve for organization and for observation. I tried to start outline last night, and found that it was very difficult to do so. Although I have several ideas in my head, translating it onto paper can be farily challenging. And I have been getting feelings that the plot formulated in my head may be better suited for a screenplay. But I cannot jump to a finished project just yet. I set out to write a novella so that is what I will begin doing.

My plans for the week are

-to create a wiki
-to complete a rough outline of the entire plot
-to upload the outline and character list onto my wiki
-if time allows to start writing my first draft

The song "Fix You", by Coldplay, is possibly (in my opinion) the best song ever written. I just felt like jotting that down.