Author: Brandan Ramnandan (Page 7 of 7)

Personally, Religion aside, I’m genuinely a guy that believes in the supernatural and things like that. I watch all kinds of scary stuff, movies, scary stories, late night shift horror stories (even though I work nightshift myself), but this “fuku” thing really creeps me out. As I was reading I think the writer was definitely trying to scare the reader at a point, I got goosebumps when I read “no matter what fuku believes in you”. I still got goosebumps typing it because although I believe in the supernatural I always try to come up with a more reasonable reason for whatever is happening instead of saying it’s something you can’t see, but these stories really sound believable. I think what I found a little confusing was his speech, he wasn’t writing like a writer regularly does. The way he spoke was almost driven to our generation and I believe that’s what the author may have done because his figure of speech definitely hooked me in the beginning until he said the ‘n’ word with ‘er’ at the end, I can’t tell if the writer is from our generation or back then. The conspiracies confused me a little as well, specifically the one about JFK being killed by Trujillo, I never knew of that guy and about the fact that he ordered a hit on him before too, that’s where it’s a little too much of a coincidence. Towards the end, I was lost a little bit when he was talking about his experience with fuku but then continuing to read I’m guessing he was okay because of zafa and he wrote this book so people can know about what it is and the safe word. The writer’s way of grabbing us readers is definitely his figure of speech and the scary part and then to it being okay at the end, I enjoyed the development and I would definitely want to hear his fuku story, I might even watch a video about it.

In his article, Mike Bunn writes “You are already an author.” He’s talking to you. What do you think he means by this? What are some of the things you write already? (Hint: “Nothing” is not an acceptable answer.) Think of all of the ways you already use words in your everyday life. That’s authorship! How will that existing expertise help you in your college reading and writing career?
Was there anything you noticed in Bunn’s article that you would like to try to do in your own writing? What, in particular? Please be specific!

When mike bun writes “you are already an author.” I agree that he is talking to us the readers. That we are already authors as we have written on so many different occasions. In history class for papers, english essays, even just a reassurance text to someone you love. All of this is different way we write things and even commenting on posts for social media. We are writers and creating our our work based off our own opinions meaning we are authors as well.

Me personally I think it’ll help me be more open minded and creative as I realize when writing, you are in control. Whatever you want the readers to believe you must write it in a way to convince the readers. A tip I noticed in Bunns’ article is that you must read like a writer and see the different ways the author used different tricks to grab the reader. The reason I chose this tip is because it is almost a way of doing research as a writer to help learn new skills to tell a story in the best way for a reader to follow.

reposting because i posted it as a comment.

After reading the article and watching the video, my understanding of it is about your name and the deeper meanings our names have behind it. Also how sometimes we would hide the correct pronunciation because of not wanting to share those aspects. For example, my name is Brandan, my parents are from guyana and it’s a custom for them to always spell names a little differently because of the accent. My parents call me BRAN-DAHN, because that’s how our people speak, and even if my name was Brandon they’d still say it the same way anyways. I think everyones name has a background relating to maybe where they come from or just something deeper, I also think some people take a little time to begin to like their names because they may be embarrassed about their culture and things like that.

Sorry I posted it as a comment before.