My favorite reading

I found this weeks reading very insightful dealing with a lot of different angles of writing.  First off with the segment of Polaroid I like how the writer used Polaroids somewhat like a metaphor for writing and the process of never knowing how the picture will turn out until its totally developed.  As a writer sometimes I worry about how I want the piece to turn out rather than the process of getting there.  I like "You couldn't have had any way of knowing what this piece of work would look like when you first started."  It's like we put so much on predicting how something will turn out instead of going with the flow and enduring the surprise that will naturally occur. 

In characters sections I learned a different way of viewing how to write about characters.  Give them personality, give them motives, describe them by not only how they look but how they carry themselves, what they own and how they present it.  I really like the point that we all favor at least one of the characters but don't hold back to that person that you love.  "As soon as you start protecting you characters from the ramifications of their less-than-lofty behavior, your story will start to feel flat and pointless, just like real life."  Its like saying takes risks show their good side, show their bad side, give them obstacles because we all go through this things, why shouldn't your characters?

I really like the part where the writers speaks on sharing your work with a friend in this part, "You may need someone else to bounce your material off of, probably a friend or a mate, someone who can tell you if the seams show, or if you've lurched off track, or even that it is not as bad as you thought and that the first one hundred pages do in fact hold up."  Great advice.  I feel like I just write, and write, and write and without any feed back while writing I start to feel self conscience and doubting my work.  I often call my brother to request his options, someone who is blunt and will tell you if your ideas aren't strong enough and maybe take a different angle on your plot before it could be potentially ruined.

This was my favorite PDF by far!

Justin T. Fluellen.

Expression poems

Can you guess what feelings they are?

Can't I embrace positivity?

Times a wasting as I get older.

Is my mind full of negativity?

Or is each day getting colder?

I've learned life only gets harder.

But one day things will get better.

The hall is really dark.

Noises begin chanting barks.

The journey makes the walls quiver.

Thus my jaw begins to shiver.

Time slows when hesistation occurs.

I prefer to turn away, and

Wait until day for the delievery.

Warts boil the skin of my surface.

The reflection of purpose only worsens.

It pierces deep into my reality.

The images blur with every peek.

Memories can only come to mind.

You're gone until the end of time.

Justin's poetry.

Blood Dazzler

I always knew about hurricane Katrina and what effects of it but none personally affected me.  There were a few people from school who were from New Orleans after the disaster but they usually kept to themselves and didn't speak too much on it.  I really like how this poetry book drew me in from the moment it started dealing with the dates and the feelings of it all even before it became a hurricane from just a tropical storm.  People from that city didn't seem to react and run every time a "threat" came their way.

I really like how in "Man on the TV Say" was like a warning to the people but she didn't seem to want to leave but only when he kept saying go...It finally sank in that maybe it time to leave.  I like how she described life in the city before the hurricane and not just all negative vibes.  I even like how she gave you a feeling that she loved her home even the cockroaches that was  within her home.  It's like a story yet poems that tell the tale.

Throughout the Blood Dazzler I seen lots of different structures within the book but not a lot of rhyming.  I see strong language giving me great images of what she wants me to visualize.  I really like she explained situations that were happening after the hurricane.  Living in different city we only heard what the news shared which extremely negative and not that truth of the people's eyes.  Loot was like an experience only someone could know from being in the situation.  I learned a lot from reading this book and I like this one a lot more than the city eclogue.