Alex Lagge's India Adventure

I did the story lab from Writers Write. I feel like one of the problems I have is an overuse of the word very instead of finding more descriptive words. I would like to increase my vocabulary so I sound smarter. I like the quote by Mark Twain. He says to but the word damn everywhere you say very because an editor will delete it any way. This page was mostly full of adjectives to use instead of saying very small you could say tiny. I like this idea because it stops your writing from being clogged and makes you be a better writer. I have a hard time writing at too basic of a level and want to get better. Different words to use!

This week I did the story lab stories about storytelling. The video I am going to focus on is the idea of a single story taking over all your thoughts about something. One of the main ideas the speaker goes over is the idea of hearing just one story about Africa. Her friend talks about how she heard one story of the disaster of Africa. This made her friend think that there was no way that she and Africans could be alike. I think this idea of one story making the whole story is a big problem in America. People will hear about the one bad thing that any group of people did, or they will hear about the idea that one person did something good so they are good people. Think if the only idea you had about a Muslim was 9-11. You would think that all Muslims are bad. If you never hear about the daily life of people then you can never learn about them. Think if someone's whole story of your life was when you did something terrible. You would say it isn't fair to judge you based on that ...

There once was a grandmaster named Caleb. He was the wisest man in that land. Not only was he so smart he was also ridiculously rich that Mansu Musa would have looked like a simple peasant. Caleb knew that even with his vast wealth he would not live forever. He wanted to do something that would allow only the purest and kind heart person get the wealth. Caleb decided to have a contest in which people could have a chance at gaining his fortune. Caleb decided that he would make a challenging course that would cause people to use teamwork not only to make it out. He thought this was the best way to make it go to a real team who would not be overtaken by greed. "Woah! Check out what the paper says," Alex said to Sebastian. Alex slid the paper over to Sebastian. "ZOO-WEE-MAMA!" Sebastian screamed. "Someone is going to have a chance to win all of Caleb the Great's treasure!" The men could hardly believe it. They had been looking for a break and a cha...

The year was 2035; it had been eight months since talks had broken down between the two new American countries. Tensions were at an all time high and both sides knew that war would be coming soon. The two leaders of each side would never see eye to eye. Captain Gomez knew this. He had been training with his company for the past 2 years as he had predicted the decline of America and wanted to get ready for the war. His company was the most advanced of the entire country. They had been in many "pre-war" missions where they assassinated political opponents, carried out attacks against supply lines and factories. He looked over his company "Men, we just got word that the real battle is about to start. The enemy's president has sent a message to the capitol. She said that we would all be finished and completely wiped out by her large superior army. That's why General Hyde has instructed us to make a daring attack on the capital at the very start of the war. We have ...

"What a lovely night", Grayson thought. He had just gotten married to his beautiful bride. Art Girl was the perfect woman she could paint better than anyone and she was a model. Grayson was absolutely in love with her and couldn't wait for the honeymoon. Since he had started his new job at Goldman Sachs he was living large. He got the best hotel in the most romantic destination for their retreat. Plus his best friend Sebastian had given them a great deal on the place. Sebastian was a successful rental property manager turned Hotel owner.  All of his friends said good bye and wished them well on the vacation. The flight to their destination felt like eternity for the newly weds. They were so excited to finally make it there that they were bursting with excitement. The hotel was magnificent. "Hey guys welcome to the hotel", Sebastian greeted. "I hope you enjoy the stay; I have given you guys the best room in the hotel". The couple ran to their room...

Seba was the grand ruler of all the land. Not only was he just the king of the world, he was the God. He had all of the power in the world and made his subjects life very easy. The world was prosperous and beautiful. The trees were green year round and harvest were always bountiful. Seba was walking through his kingdom one day when he saw a woman painting. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She looked so divine and he could hardly believe his eyes. He quickly walked up to her and compliment her art. When he asked for her name she didn't respond with one instead she said.  "I was an orphan who was never given a name. People just call me Art Girl because of the beautiful art I create."  "Art Girl" Seba thought, "how beautiful yet so simple". She was an angle that only he himself could have made. Seba asked her to be his wife. She wanted to agree, after all he was a God. The only problem was she was already with Seba's frien...

Updated Story: https://sites.google.com/view/battlesretoldalexlagge/avenging-a-wife "I'll make him pay for disrespecting my wife" thought Rook. No one through Rook's wife through a coffee table. She was the perfect woman in the world. She was educated; she had graduated from the local community college with her associates degree. She was also an athlete like no other being the captain of her rec lacrosse team. He had to take revenge on none other that his own brother. Rook knew he saw her trip his wife and slam her through the table. An "accident" like that doesn't actually happen on accident. Rook knew that his brother, Sam, was too big and strong for him to fight alone. Sam had been going to the gym no stop and his mass and strength knew no bounds. "Loading his body with that many calories of milk a day was unnatural", Rook thought. Rook texted Justin and told him to meet him at the gym , Guy Heaven. Sam would be there without a doubt, a...

Marty was just your average 10th grade boy. He loved sports, movies and video games. His favorite hobby though was reading. He had just gotten into horror books. The first one he read was IT by Stephen King. It was really creepy, but Marty knew he would never get over his fear of clowns if he hid from them forever. Unfortunately, for Marty the book did nothing but scare him more. Every night Marty had to walk his dog as one of his chores or else he would not get a car for his 16th birthday. When he was walking his dog he saw something out of the corner of his eye. It was a figure hiding in the trees. He looked and for sure it had to have been a clown! The white makeup, the red honky nose and the creepy eyes gave it away in an instant. Marty sprinted home with his dog gleefully running alongside him with no idea anything bad was happening. As soon as Marty was in the safety of his own home he quickly got onto Twitter and sent out a tweet of what he had seen. Within minuets he has thousa...