Day five I was supposed to take an 'out of order' sign and put it randomly on something, I decided to put it on a trashcan, I wanted to see if people would be dumb enough to not use it because of a sign and I didn't want to put it on anything that would cause trouble. Though it didn't seem to work well I didn't see any real affect.
Though It did remind me of an psychological experiment, but I can't remember what it is called.
The experiment is they take a couple and put them in a situation where they can choose one of two bridges to cross, one has loads of people crossing, so many so it's kinda crowded, and one bridge had no people whatsoever, no signs or anything just no people.
Around 7 times out of 10 the people would choose the crowded bridge without any thought and no questions to ask about the quality of the other bridge.
There was another experiment where they tell a guy to come in for an experiment but it isn't what he thinks. First they make sure he shows up late and make it look like the experiment has already begun, they also have a bunch of other people there posing as other people there for the same experiment as him. Then they show them a series of lines all next to each other and they ask them to pick which one they think is the longest, now all the other people that are posing choose a line that is obviously Not the longest, the test subject looks around like they're crazy and chooses the shortest, but they test it again, and again, by the third test he's agreeing with all the others and choosing a line that is obviously shorter even though they ask to pick the longest line. 'mob' mentality.
Weird huh?
Alright Day six is: Today write the opening of your debut novel. So here it is:
'You know those moments after something has happened that will forever change your life and you will never be same because of it, so you go back to daily life trying to pretend nothing has changed but you can't; you don't recognize your life, you are not a part of it anymore because you're not the same person you were only five minutes ago? Mona knew.'
Okay not only is this a HUGE run on sentence, and technically two sentences but whatever it's my opening 'line' lol. You know I used to love writing, I started writing my own story as a kid around.... I'm gonna say eleven and I wrote and rewrote. My friend edited, and I would rewrite and add to it jotting down some sentences here and there between classes, and then I put it away for a long time and then when I was in high school I picked it back up and completely rewrote it again all over and it was amazing I was finally getting to the end and then boom! It was deleted, I accidently deleted the whole story, no back ups nothing and I tried writing here and there but it just wasn't the same. And now I can barely write at all, I've never been really great at grammar (you can probably tell from my posts lol) but I was really good at concepts and character development. Now not so much, I'm not eloquent, I have a hard time forming plots or even translating emotions properly or using proper language I've gotten so bad, I feel like I'm getting old!
So I've decided I'm going to try and write again, a lil everyday, even if it's only some sentences, and I'm going to write a story. I'm not going to worry if it's good, or about publishing or doing anything it's just going to be an exercise for me to improve myself. So that's what I'm going to try and do.
Oh and here are some famous first sentences to some really good books, try and guess which one's they are!
'All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'
'Mother died today.'
'1801-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.'
'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.'
'Lolita, light of my life. Fire of my loins.'
Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
Old Testament
Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte'
L'estranger. Albert Came
Anna Karenina. Tolstoy.
Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austin.
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