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RCL II Passion Blog Ideas

My first idea for this semester’s passion blog is to detail my attempt of writing a novel. I have had the idea for a long time now, and actually began writing (only the introduction and one paragraph of the first chapter) last semester, but I would really like to work more on this book. In this blog, I would describe how the past week of work has gone, as well as share my goals for the next week. This idea was actually inspired by a friend of mine at James Madison University, who has done a vlog series of the same exact style. If you are curious as to what I am writing about, it is a thriller about a serial killer, with the perspective shifting from the killer to the police investigating the murders, and possibly other characters I create. This blog would really help me stay motivated, give me deadlines for the book, and allow me to see if what I am doing is entertaining and worth continuing.

Here’s a link to the first vlog of his series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC5wOXd3r7E

My second idea for the passion blog is related to a topic I explored in great detail last semester: Comedy. In particular, I loved exploring stand-up comedy last semester. So, for this blog, I would watch a different stand-up comedy special each week, and comment on what I found funny, what I liked and didn’t like about the comic, and try to delve further into what the comic was trying to say about society as a whole. Yes, I did just say what the comic was saying about society. Stand-up comedy is no longer just about making people laugh. This form of entertainment has become so much more, and is an incredibly successful platform for social commentary. I believe that stand-up comedy may be one of the best tools to create necessary changes in society. This blog would allow me to further explore this interest of mine, as well as expose the more “scholarly” side of stand-up.

Here’s a link to the TED Talk I gave on comedy last semester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Z6oHwdoD0