The best free apps on the app store include Clash Royale, this app lets you collect cards to use and battle against your opponent. Clash of Clans is also a fun free app. In this app you build your settlement, build armies, and collect resources to battle your enemies and upgrade buildings in your settlement. Snapchat and Instagram are also very fun apps. They allow you to post stories and pictures about yourself with your friends and followers. Spotify a free app that lets you listen to music for free unlike iTunes. With Spotify you need to buy the premium package to listen to any song without wifi. That can come in handy all the time. Other free apps like weather channel and gas buddy can come in handy on road trips and when you really need to know what the weather is going to be. Gas Buddy lets people post gas prices from the closest gas stations near you anywhere you are. Author: Jack Kellerman I have lived in Batesville all my life. I am a senior at Batesville High School. I have played football all 4 years at the Batesville High School.
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Author: Hope Flaspohler I am actively involved in 4-H and FFA. I have 3 older sisters and 1 younger sister. One thing I love to do is travel across the county showing livestock with my family and getting to meet so many new people along the way.
Author: Gus Cooper One thing about me is that I love sports. I play soccer, basketball, and watch a lot of football. I have a sister and a dog. Lastly, I love to go boating and tubing in Tennessee. SWTOR is an online game. It’s based off of the Star Wars movies, however it takes place 2,000 years before the events of the films. The character creation is very limited, however the game makes up for that with the extraordinary voice acting. When you go to create a new character, you have two options: Your character can either be Light side, or Dark side. The light side is the Republic which has the following character classes: Jedi Knight, Jedi Consular, Trooper and Smuggler. The dark side is the Empire which has the following character classes: Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitor, Bounty Hunter, and Imperial Agent. Each class has an opposing class, so for instance the Jedi Knight’s opposite is the Sith Warrior. What I like the most about this game is the fact that you have choices to make and the choices you make affect your storyline and not only that but they affect how people view you. You can take a Jedi and make him go darkside, or you can take a Sith and make her go lightside, however each choice will cost you something. Sometimes what the costs won’t be apparent until several chapters later and other times it changes how people view you. It can even go as far as to change what your character looks like. Author: Anonymous
I’ve never been much of a blogger. Journals? No way. Diary? Out of my face. Blogs? Never again. That was deleted and will forever be filed as a tragic middle school experience fueled by pre-teen angst and trying to be cool. But something I’m good at? Writing. Writing is an out-of-body experience for me. You come up with an idea and you express the idea. You draft, re-draft, draft again, send it to your editor who explains to you in a thorough email that no, you can’t make that joke, do you realise how much trouble you’ll get in for that joke, what are you doing, you get it back, you rewrite it, create the final draft. You forward it to your editor. You get the okay from your editor. You sit satisfied, tired from hours of work, thousands of words, late nights spent up until 3AM, and enough energy drinks and sugar to put yourself into a seizure. Then you start on the next chapter. That’s the cycle of being a writer. You’re driven to create. You’re driven to express yourself and give the world a taste of what you’re truly capable of; let them hear your voice. You want to make sound through the words on a page. You cut out part of yourself, your being, your soul, and release it into whatever you’re creating. And I find beauty in that. Recently, I was added to a team of about a hundred or so artists and writers for an experimental zine. It’s quite the interesting experience so far; all of these people, besides the producer and head of operations, are people I’ve never met and are complete strangers to me, but yet, I’m expected to work with them. I’m expected to collaborate to bring this anthology to life. My project is writing a short story, along with being the editor for a few other authors. Overall, this experience is completely new and a little terrifying. The deadlines and requirements and rules and all of this is something I’ve never experienced before as a writer. Before, it was simply work when I wanted to. I was my own boss. I set my deadlines and rules. I chose the word limits, the formatting. I was in complete control. Now, I’m catering to someone else. I’m writing for an audience. I have to appeal to them and give them my best work, to prove that despite being one of the youngest on the team, I’m still an artist like the rest of creators. This has definitely become a struggle, but just in the short amount of time I’ve been on the project and working, it’s definitely helped me grow as an author. I already had the spunk, the voice, the style, and the skill. When I wrote, I would write from the heart. I’d captivate my readers. I’d draw them in. I’d hook them tight and wouldn’t let go. But I never set rules for myself. I never properly drafted. I did whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. When I was accepted, realising that I wasn’t just out of literally several hundred applicants but I was actually personally asked by the project leader to join, was a slap to the face. A wake-up call. I always say that I want my writing to be taken seriously. I kept my door open and the opportunity has waltzed in and thrown itself into my lap. It’s up to me now to either take it or leave it. I’ve decided to take it and go for it. Am I prepared for it? No. But that’s okay. Sometimes, you have to barrel into things unprepared. You have to just go for it. You’re constantly learning in life. What I learn during this experience will help me in the long run, if I ever decide to throw music education out the window and barrel into the world of writing full-time, besides leaving it as simply just a hobby. I’d love to do something like that. Publish a novel. Produce and write a comic. Be a screenwriter. Something. Alas, I’m lacking in one thing to complete an extensive comic such as that. It’s called patience. But the main focus of this essay-blog-writing-piece-that-will-give-me-a-heart-attack: writing and collaboration. What does that mean? It’s built off the foundation that writing is social. Writing isn’t just about the author. It’s about the editor, the audience, the inspiration, everything. I’ve found that as I’ve grown as a writer and as I’ve taken on projects such as this, writing truly is a social project that requires you to be able to collaborate. I collaborate with other writers to toss around ideas. I collaborate with my editor to make sure that my writing is the best it can be. Collaboration is important because in the end, despite how far you may get by yourself, you need a second mind, third mind, fourth, fifth, or even more just to get the job done. Collaboration isn’t just writing with other authors. It’s sending your writing to get edited, having beta readers read over and give you feedback. Writing is a social process based off the work of a multitude of people. It takes so many people just to bring a single story to life. Whether it’s just a few teenagers working together to make some short assignment for a class, or a hundred artists across the globe working together to create a single oeuvre of creation, it’s a social process. So, as I continue to wrack my brain to meet my first deadline, while juggling education, working part time, and raising my sister, at least I know, I have others to lean on while I’m traversing on a new road on the journey of my life. I am one of the many voices, voices of an army of creators, who have a story to tell and a message to be heard. Ryder Stephens is a self-made artist, who works primarily in the liberal arts and finds passion in writing music and performing. When not working in said music, Ryder can be found at home with two dogs and a cat working in art and writing, and currently working on anthology of short stories. They can be found on Twitter and Instagram under the username “RyderTheSaint." |
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