Hunger games

Katniss goes hunting for Peeta and eventually finds him. He is wounded and camouflaged in the muddy bank of a stream. She nurses him back to health and realizes that by playing up the romance angle, they can get gifts from sponsors.

Eventually, Katniss and Peeta must face off with Cato, the only other surviving tribute, but before that they are all pursued by wild dogs which are actually genetically mutated killing machines. Finally, Katniss shoots Cato and he falls into the pack. They've won, right? Wrong. An announcer comes back on and says the rules have changed back: only one winner allowed.

Katniss and Peeta can't kill each other, so they make a show of taking poisonous berries in an act of double suicide. Fortunately, the announcer comes back on before they can kill themselves, and says that they win. Woo-hoo! They defeated the Hunger Games! Or wait…did they?

• The Montags read all afternoon. He is caught by one passage in particular, from an 18th century British writer named Samuel Johnson: "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
• He listens to the rain outside and wonders if that applies to Clarisse. All these books point to her, he thinks.
• Sorry I wrote in bullets again

• On the other side of the room, three of his coworkers and the Captain are all playing cards together. Montag comments that the hound doesn’t like him, but the Captain counters that a mechanical beast doesn’t have any such emotions.
• It’s threatened him more than once, Montag replies. What if someone programmed it against him? Secretly, he worries about what he has hidden behind the ventilator grill back home (more on this later).
• Sorry I wrote in bullets

Heat by mike lupica

Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws super fast  along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his skill is nothing compared to the pitching Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-year old brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system or they would be sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. He had no way at all to prove his age. And no parent to fight for him, He secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources. And I have read to about page 109 and so far the book is very detailed and gives me a lot surprises and is a very hard book to put down considering I love baseball.  And Mike Lupica is legendary in the world of sports writing, blogging, and journaling. I'd even consider him going into announcing. But seriously these first 100 pages have been intense! And he should definitely write a second book to the series. I mean there so much emotion and passion about this poor kid that's in a foster home trying to live his dream! And hopefully by the end of the book he does. And my predictions are some sort of serious drama will go on with the foster family and maybe even be sent back to Cuba. 

Krista Ramsey

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/03/08/krista-ramsey-new-adoption-law-ohio/6222347/

There is a girl not far from here that is an orphan fairly old (she is 23), but she wants to meet her birth parents. And shes been trying for a while to meet them or get any sort of contact with them and now court is letting her see her birth certificate with contact information. "The 23-year-old Western Hills resident is one of 400,000 Ohio adoptees who, for the first time in their lives, will have access to the names of their biological parents and the details of their birth ." This line shows  that out of that many people having the same problem as her so far she is the only one who has gotten opportunity. Her word choice is very nice like when she says "for the first time in their lives" that really made me want to read more. And she keeps her words really flowing. Her writing style is definitely to inform you could tell by looking at some of her titles and articles. But i really didn't enjoy reading that besides the first 2 paragraph's it was pretty boring.

QUESTIONS

Do you ever formulate more then one rough draft before publishing?

Do you sometimes or always confront the people your writing about?

How long does it usually take you to write one article?