Thursday, December 3, 2009
Blog 21: Revision Narrative
Revising my narrative:
I'm going to completely overhaul the narrative of my 4th essay. What I have now is very journalistic, very "sketchy" but not very much like creative nonfiction. So what I've done, and what I'm doing, involves almost completely changing all of the material into a first person perspective.
I hope that by doing so I haven't gone too far the other way. Even at the end of this course, I still feel incredibly uncomfortable talking about myself. I'm getting better at it, but I'm not there yet. At least I'm no longer afraid to use "I" and to write about my own experience as if it were valid.
I also think that my transitions into the historical sections have become arbitrary. I'm going to have to think of a way to have them not stick out so much.
I'm also looking into changing the title. I admit that the original title, "Bored," was something that I just kind of threw out at the last minute. I'm going to write down a plethora of new ideas this weekend, and see what I come up with. I'll also scan my text for phrases and such which I think make a better title than the one I have currently.
I'm going to completely overhaul the narrative of my 4th essay. What I have now is very journalistic, very "sketchy" but not very much like creative nonfiction. So what I've done, and what I'm doing, involves almost completely changing all of the material into a first person perspective.
I hope that by doing so I haven't gone too far the other way. Even at the end of this course, I still feel incredibly uncomfortable talking about myself. I'm getting better at it, but I'm not there yet. At least I'm no longer afraid to use "I" and to write about my own experience as if it were valid.
I also think that my transitions into the historical sections have become arbitrary. I'm going to have to think of a way to have them not stick out so much.
I'm also looking into changing the title. I admit that the original title, "Bored," was something that I just kind of threw out at the last minute. I'm going to write down a plethora of new ideas this weekend, and see what I come up with. I'll also scan my text for phrases and such which I think make a better title than the one I have currently.
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