I prepared well for the seminar since I wrote a lot of open-ended questions that could be asked; however, most of them were on the plot and very few were about specific writing techniques. I also did well on participating, as I participated a right amount and also invited people into the conversation.

Something I need to work on is to ask and build more on specific writing techniques, since I mostly just asked about the plot of the story. I also need to work on speaking more formally and not using words like ‘like’ as much as I did.

My next goal would be to ask more deep and meaningful questions on writing techniques that people in my group can build off of.

To achieve this goal, I will try to keep the groups conversation mostly about writing techniques and prepare some open-ended questions about specific writing techniques that other group members can build on.

I am still reading the book “Allegiant”—the 3rd book of the Divergent trilogy. When the protagonist goes outside of the walls, the lies of her old world was revealed to her. The factions she used to live by are shattered even more as she learns how it is only to fix damaged genes. The author, Veronica Roth, believes that humans are not, and should not be grouped into different categories, humans can have many different sides and personalities, and if they only have one, then they are “broken”, like how people in the story are supposed to grow back to normal genes. This is a series I would recommend to people who likes action-packed adventures since there is a lot of action in this trilogy.

The book I am reading is entitled “Allegiant”, it is the 3rd book of the Divergent trilogy. The series a science-fiction novel for young adults, about people who lives in a walled city, and the factions that the protagonist believed in was shattered, which is why when given the chance to explore what was above the limit of what is already known to her, she takes it. This book was written in the perspective of two different characters—Tobias and Tris. This book connects to me because even in real life, I sometimes categorize people into different categorizes, like the factions in the book, and I sometimes wonder what would happen if people stop doing that.