Response on David Greenberg

This one's for you Mr.G

Response on Author David Greenberg’s performance

When Mr. G told us that we would hear a writer talk to us, I was actually quite happy because I enjoy listening to writers give little pointers to aspiring authors like me. I think that anyone at the assembly who was paying attention could have taken a lot out of David’s presentation because he spoke in easy kid language and he made sense. I think his poems are amazing in two ways, one, he used great rhyming words but still maintained the flow that he wanted to and two, he cared about what he wrote.

I understood when he said it took him one month to write his poems because I know from experience that everything doesn’t just come to you at once and even if it does you can always make what your thinking more interesting on paper. Anyways, when I write my short stories it also takes me one to two months to write it because sometimes I have to edit more than four copies to get one amazing piece of literature.

My favorite thing that David spoke about was the three components of writing because I really agree with them. I also liked when David spoke about how cool and crazy things happen to all people. I never really think of what’s happening in my own family yet when David mentioned it and gave examples, a lot of crazy things have happened to me and my friends and those crazy amazing things would make a great poem. David writes great poems/short stories and hopefully I will too some day. Even now when I read back at what I write, my writing skills are maturing just like me. Most of the things that David said I agree with and his comments sparked a part of my brain that holds my writing.

For me writing solves all my issues, good and bad. When I’m angry I write in a darker tone usually thinking of black; when I’m happy I write jumpy little poems with bright colors; and when I’m sad I write about gloomy things like wars with the color grey in mind. Literature is everywhere; you just have to look for it.

Arieh Leon Dales 6A