Analysis
Analysis 1
The article A Note On technique by Wallace Stegner explains how to make a novel, he goes though everything on how to write one, and what types of writing you can write. Stegner explains what kind of writing and how you are supposed to start it and end. Stegner even adds how a scene on a stage, and how to have the characters. He adds a quote George M. Cohan’s advice in the wrong ways in sentence writing. Stegner keeps saying “must persuade us in all aspects”. Stegner the author just writes informational, and gives great examples, of the information he's giving us. The examples are extremely helpful for a beginner writer. At the end he gives a couple of rules that can imply to you.
I liked this reading because it helps me with what types of stories I can write and how to write. I'm struggling with “staying out of your story “ I just don’t know how to do that yet. I feel like the don’t show off your style will be hard but can help with trying to write a story. And knowing that “stopping a story can be as hard as saying goodnight.” makes my heart happy knowing that other people struggle with ending stories.
I liked this reading because it helps me with what types of stories I can write and how to write. I'm struggling with “staying out of your story “ I just don’t know how to do that yet. I feel like the don’t show off your style will be hard but can help with trying to write a story. And knowing that “stopping a story can be as hard as saying goodnight.” makes my heart happy knowing that other people struggle with ending stories.
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Analysis 2 (Lorrie Moore)
In Lorrie Moore’s “How to Become a Writer”, she writes from a personal level and tells her journey of becoming a writer. she talks about trying new things like making your character a teacher and a rock star, something unusual.She tells her story starting in high school she began to fail at a young age but she looks at it as a good thing, she quotes “ It is best to fail at an early age.” As she continued going to thru life in high school, she began writing, being told she “has no sense of plot”, all the way to college, when she is told that she had “a ludicrous notion of plot”. Her story is a long journey through different majors and lots of different decisions to become a writer. It gave her “brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration” which she soon turned into an achievement. She also brought up how much suffering there would be with writing till you’re sick and then still writing and disappointing people like your mom.
The idea that this author presents is that you should follow the path that belongs
to you, and what makes you happy. Though it may not be ideal to others, you must do
what you want. The author also presents these ideas by using second person. She puts the reader in her shoes to walk through the story as if we were her.
I liked the author’s idea of using second person. I think I will use it in future
writing. It makes the writing seem way more personal and like you are actually in the
story.
The idea that this author presents is that you should follow the path that belongs
to you, and what makes you happy. Though it may not be ideal to others, you must do
what you want. The author also presents these ideas by using second person. She puts the reader in her shoes to walk through the story as if we were her.
I liked the author’s idea of using second person. I think I will use it in future
writing. It makes the writing seem way more personal and like you are actually in the
story.
short assignment
- Helpful quotes I liked
- First try to breathe
- Write down as much as I can see through one-inch picture frame.
- To paint a picture of it, in words
- Describe the main character the very first time we meet her
- Just what we can see though the one- inch picture frame
- E.L. Doctorow once said that “writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
- You don’t have to see where your going
- You just have to two or three feet ahead of you
- Figure out a one- inch piece of my story to tell, one small scene, one memory one exchange
- “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird”
- Writing can be … it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong
- We are just gonna take it bird by bird
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