Looking into what the future holds for us is important. We need to ask questions like, "If we continue our current behavior, what might happen to us? How can we prevent negative expected things in the future from happening? What challenges will we face in future years?" In our latest project, "What Lies Ahead", we looked into these questions. We went over topics such as the future of robots and AI, global warming, war, evolution, and human behavior, and discussed those topics to help us brainstorm our story ideas.
In this project, we were tasked to create a sci-fi story about topics that could possibly take place in the future. I was an author, and worked with another author, an illustrator, and a scientist. The author worked on writing the story, the illustrator worked on creating art for the story, and the scientist worked on explaining the science aspects of the story. After our group came up with an idea we enjoyed, we created a story pitch. Our story was about bring extra terrestrial life into an Earth Environment, and it breaking loose and causing chaos. In our original story idea the alien was supposed to spread across the entire U.S.. After pitching our idea to an actual author, he gave us the critique of making the story take place on a smaller scale, which turned out to work as great advice that we used in our final story. After this, my other author and I started story boarding. This process involved writing down short summaries of what each scene would look like, and what characters would be in the scene. This process was important to lay out your story correctly before you started the actual writing process, and also helped me with working out the importance of each scene. We worked on writing our actual story when we were ready. We got critique from multiple other people, gave critique to multiple other people, and after several drafts the book was finished. In this project the biggest growth I had was with collaboration. We were the only group with two authors in it, so it was questionable whether that collaboration was going to work. We had worries that the story would seem strange because of different writing styles, and other worries that only one of us could work at a time. But we found a way to make the best of the fact that we had two people, and took advantage of it. Both of us were working at all times, whether that be one working on editing and adding onto earlier parts of the book, and the other working on writing the rest of the book. Or both of us combining our ideas to improve the book in certain parts, and make it the best we could. I had always thought that my collaboration didn't need much improvement, but this project pushed me to grow and become a much better collaborator. Another growth I had was in my writing. I feel that many times in the past my writing projects have been pretty small, and I've never had the freedom of choosing what story I want to write about. Due to the freedom and time I had, I was able to take time into working on things like character development, and see growth through the story. I've worked on things like persuasive essays, and personal stories in the past but have never really worked on creating my own story with my own ideas like in this project. This made story creating much more fun, and taught me something new about how to create characters someone can have actual connections to, and characters that people care about. This project not only improved my skills of writing, but improved my collaboration heavily, and helped me learn the importance of looking into the future. It's important for all, especially newer generations, to think about how our actions right now could effect what the future holds for us. Through this project I now have skills in writing that I hadn't had before, and can create a story that is exciting but also has meaning behind it.
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