Writing: 10-5-7-10-10

LI: To use 10-5-7-10-10 to write creatively.

The path of success isn’t easy

In the beautiful spring weather at time of sunset with pleasing blending colors at the back, a girl is stuck. She has been separated when trekking with her group since morning. With very little food left she has loosen hope to reach the peak and the path of success. Lying on a flat surface with many wounds on her leg while drinking her last sips of water, she thinks about the trip and regrets the fact of not listening to her parents. She thinks about the sorrowful future when she is found missing and then dead. Her heart falls to the ground and seeing the burning sun she gets the spirit to reach the top and stops thinking about everything. 

The agony and the incentive could be seen in her eyes which became a turning part in the story. After climbing halfway to the top she finds a bottle which might have been dropped from someone’s backpack and thinks that faith is with her. Crying the tears of happiness she drinks the water and saves some for the rest of the journey. She forgets everything about the group and is only thinking with a rough goal in her mind to reach the peak and thrust the flag. The whole negativity in her mind changes positive until when she notices that the sun is going down and the red sky is turning darker and darker. 

Not leaving a single hope of success she carries on. Feeling the pain in her body with a heart beating faster than something living on the earth, she then pauses for a moment and sees the sun going down completely. Near the top she throws the rope and attaches it to her waist belt and goes up, that is when she feels like the rope is going to tear apart. She pauses for a moment, takes deep breaths and calms herself down. With all her courage she reaches the top and raises her flag waving in the air. Feeling the joy of success and happiness she lit a fire and seeing the smoke a helicopter came for rescue. Now she is a famous traveler and is very famous for this incidence.

This week I worked with Sulia and we made some changes in our writing pattern by making wise choices. After discussing we thought that we could use a new strategy called 10-5-7-10-10 which stands for ten minutes writing all our ideas on a piece of paper, five minutes writing our paragraph on a google document, seven minutes chatting each, ten minutes for the changes we wanted to make in our writing and ten minutes for using the draft method. The second strategy was more efficient for many reasons, some of them were that we could write a little bit more as we had an idea of what we are writing and we also got extra time to read the paragraph again giving us time to check our tenses, spellings, grammar and synonyms. In conclusion we came to learn that the making of wise choices are very important as they can be very useful and efficient for us.