I feel as though I learned something important from reading the original detail chapter. I seems so simple to just write down the original experience but it is something I have not mastered yet. I really like the line about how “life is so rich, and just writing down the original detail will help.”
The power of detail chapter showed how effective original detail was. The whole chapter went through a few of her experiences and she was able to put all the facts of her experiences into very readable paragraphs. The paragraphs had a lot of detail in them. If I was able to master this technique I feel it would take my writings to a higher level.
Baking a cake was also a very interesting chapter. I like how she referred to a person as a cake. A cake is made up of all these different ingredients that come together to form a new product the is completely different from the original ingredients. She used this cake cconcept and compared this to a human which made perfect sense to me.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
To After That
I rally enjoyed reading Gladman's book. I did not understand what direction the book was headed in at first so I had to read the first couple pages a second time. I came to realize that she was talking about her book writing process. The fact that she can publish a book about writing a different book is mind blowing.
I was really able to connect with this book because she wrote about how she struggled to write. I connected with this because I deal with the same problems. One such problem she had was reaching her page number quota. In high school I remember adjusting the margins to make the page smaller so the stuff that I had wrote would look bigger. Gladman said she would feel cheap if she did this so she instead made the margins on the page bigger. This really inspired me to really do my best on all my future writings.
There was one technique she used that I did not know of. She talked about writing in the white-space. When I first read this I was confused. I read it two more times and still was confused. These few lines finally became clear to me when we discussed them in class. I know realize that she was talking about changing the font to create larger and smaller white spaces around her txt, which give the readers a different feel for the book when they read it.
I was really able to connect with this book because she wrote about how she struggled to write. I connected with this because I deal with the same problems. One such problem she had was reaching her page number quota. In high school I remember adjusting the margins to make the page smaller so the stuff that I had wrote would look bigger. Gladman said she would feel cheap if she did this so she instead made the margins on the page bigger. This really inspired me to really do my best on all my future writings.
There was one technique she used that I did not know of. She talked about writing in the white-space. When I first read this I was confused. I read it two more times and still was confused. These few lines finally became clear to me when we discussed them in class. I know realize that she was talking about changing the font to create larger and smaller white spaces around her txt, which give the readers a different feel for the book when they read it.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
I was not very excited to go to this reading because I had to be at practice at 7:30 and I know there was more important homework that I could be doing. Even though I did not want to go, I knew the LBC event was going to teach me something new just as the rest of the LBC events I had been to. I did not know what to expect once I got into the small theater room but I thought I was ready for whatever type of story the reader was ready to throw at me. I was sadly mistaken.
The reading started off with a woman reading off one BoK's poems. I realized at the end of the reading that she was not nearly as good as him. When BoK finally started his reading I was completely blown away and confused. I thought am I in the right place because I could not understand his poem. My classmate and me could not all have went to the wrong place together. Then I thought, what has Ms. Darling gotten us into.
The First poem was a German poem. I could not understand any of the words but I still tried my hardest to match at least one word to English. BoK was very strong and inspiring with his German accent. He really put his heart and soul into each word he spoke. Since I could not understand the words he was saying, the only thing I really picked up on was how the sounded and were put together. During the reading of these poems I felt as if I was being mesmerized by the sound of his voice. I did not want him to stop at one point. The sound of his voice while he was doing one of the German poems was so soothing that it had put me into the calmest mood that I had been in all week.
BoK also read some of his poems in English. The first couple that he read really stood out to the audience. These poems had a lot to do with sex. The poems seemed to show what goes on with college students every day and the types of dirty material that college students interact with every day. These poems dealt with alcohol use, the dirty minds of young men, rap video sex, and the current youth mind state.
My favorite poem was American DaDa. This poem was interesting because he replaced every noun with another word that was located seven spaces from it in the dictionary. This technique made for a very interesting poem. The poem was very crazy and all over the place, also very funny.
I really liked the overall experience of going to the reading. I really enjoyed hearing poems from another language. It was a new experience that I would not mind trying again.
The reading started off with a woman reading off one BoK's poems. I realized at the end of the reading that she was not nearly as good as him. When BoK finally started his reading I was completely blown away and confused. I thought am I in the right place because I could not understand his poem. My classmate and me could not all have went to the wrong place together. Then I thought, what has Ms. Darling gotten us into.
The First poem was a German poem. I could not understand any of the words but I still tried my hardest to match at least one word to English. BoK was very strong and inspiring with his German accent. He really put his heart and soul into each word he spoke. Since I could not understand the words he was saying, the only thing I really picked up on was how the sounded and were put together. During the reading of these poems I felt as if I was being mesmerized by the sound of his voice. I did not want him to stop at one point. The sound of his voice while he was doing one of the German poems was so soothing that it had put me into the calmest mood that I had been in all week.
BoK also read some of his poems in English. The first couple that he read really stood out to the audience. These poems had a lot to do with sex. The poems seemed to show what goes on with college students every day and the types of dirty material that college students interact with every day. These poems dealt with alcohol use, the dirty minds of young men, rap video sex, and the current youth mind state.
My favorite poem was American DaDa. This poem was interesting because he replaced every noun with another word that was located seven spaces from it in the dictionary. This technique made for a very interesting poem. The poem was very crazy and all over the place, also very funny.
I really liked the overall experience of going to the reading. I really enjoyed hearing poems from another language. It was a new experience that I would not mind trying again.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Fiction Packet One
The list if famous hats was an interesting story. It began with a very know figure in history and talked about his fashion choices. As the story went on it began to talk more and more about Napoleon's head and not hit hat. When I read the tittle I expected to read a lot about hot his hat was the source of his power or something. The overall story was funny though.
Walking to the baby to the liquor store was my favorite story in the packet. I was immediately drawn to this story because of the tittle. The first thoughts that came to my head is that thy can't possibly write about a baby getting drunk. Then I started to think that the baby must be a tittle for an older person, such as someones who acts immature. As I started reading the story I realized that the story was talking about a real baby which got me me more interested. It was good to know At the end that the baby was not an adic to drugs but an addict to comedy.
The letter from home was also a very interesting story. Throughout the story there were no sentences formed. There were only facts stated. This reminded me of one of the Goldberg stories about just stating the facts. This is all that was done in this poem, nothing but organized facts that are put together to make a good picture in ones head.
Walking to the baby to the liquor store was my favorite story in the packet. I was immediately drawn to this story because of the tittle. The first thoughts that came to my head is that thy can't possibly write about a baby getting drunk. Then I started to think that the baby must be a tittle for an older person, such as someones who acts immature. As I started reading the story I realized that the story was talking about a real baby which got me me more interested. It was good to know At the end that the baby was not an adic to drugs but an addict to comedy.
The letter from home was also a very interesting story. Throughout the story there were no sentences formed. There were only facts stated. This reminded me of one of the Goldberg stories about just stating the facts. This is all that was done in this poem, nothing but organized facts that are put together to make a good picture in ones head.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)