During this semester we had work on two journeys our experience in learning how to make good ideas to form a good writing. Our two journeys were a internal journeys, that is a personal notebook and an external journey, that is this blog. Our internal journey was based in freewriting. Letting ourselves go with thoughts and immediately writing them down. The external journey is based on think, then writing. Being this one a more public form of writing.
Between these two journey I find more effective the internal one. Thinking and writing, at the same time. I personally like this one because I write it, then I read it and rationalize what I just wrote. Sometimes I'm even surprise of the things I wrote. Now I write all the ideas I have first, whether they are related to the subject or not and then decide which path I'll write about. The internal one has giving me the benefit of one thing taking me to the other and joining them until I fi d a final idea.
In my external journey I've learned to be more fluid with my ideas. Because I have in my head that another person is going to read it I write an idea, read it again and then I think if I should leave it or not. I don't feel so much liberty in expressing my ideas. I try to avoid bad ideas and express good one. Unlike my internal, that I have learned to go to the jugular, which personally I tried to avoid at the beginning.
Overall I like the internal journey over the external, I've come to know myself a bit more in the internal. The thing I mostly like about the external, is that I've become more fluid. Fluid in the way I choose what I'm going to write. At the beginning I thought to much about what I was going to write next now I just "go with the flow" and all my ideas come out but in a organized way. Now sometimes I pick some paper and start writing randomly as a way to get some thoughts out of my head.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Student Research and Writing Conference Reflection 2
I also assisted to the panel of "Creative is Critical: Based on Fiction" (2:40-3:30), supervised by professor George Noble. The panel was about creativity in fictional stories. The story that I like most was "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perking Gilman.
The story was about a woman, the narrator, confined in her bedroom and writing everything in her journal. The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. Too the point in which she feels amused and excited about the yellow pattern the wallpaper had, she even starts to like the smell of the wallpaper. At the the end of the story she begins to think their other woman behind the walls and she feels she is one of them, she feels so protected within those yellow walls of the room she locks herself inside the room and the only place she feels safe is within that room.
In my opinion, I found the story a bit insane because she accepted to never leave the room, and androcentric because the woman does not have the freedom she should have in a marriage, her husband is free but she is trapped in a room going crazy.
The story was about a woman, the narrator, confined in her bedroom and writing everything in her journal. The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. Too the point in which she feels amused and excited about the yellow pattern the wallpaper had, she even starts to like the smell of the wallpaper. At the the end of the story she begins to think their other woman behind the walls and she feels she is one of them, she feels so protected within those yellow walls of the room she locks herself inside the room and the only place she feels safe is within that room.
In my opinion, I found the story a bit insane because she accepted to never leave the room, and androcentric because the woman does not have the freedom she should have in a marriage, her husband is free but she is trapped in a room going crazy.
A day as a tourist
I went to Rincon with a few friends, a town in Puerto Rico, with the mentality of being a foreigner or a tourist. Amazingly that part of the island, which I have never been to, is so beautiful. Unlike the metropolitan area, it's very open and natural, it doesn't have so many buildings and that I personally like. I basically was a inside tourist but at times I acted like I was from the United States.
At the beginning we were acting as if we were from American and we came to se a surf contest. The receptionist was incredibly nervous everytime we were going to talk to her because she didn't spoke English. To the point that one time I went to ask for towels and she went away! So we did this on everyone we talk to and they only laughed and tried to talk back but you could feel they really wanted to help.
At the beach and at night it was different. We encountered a lot of outside tourist. They were different from the locals, they were more friendly but asked to much. They could notice we were locals but the locals couldn't figure out we were really puertorrican. Overall it was a fun experience and a good way to make people treat you more friendly and less hostile.
At the beginning we were acting as if we were from American and we came to se a surf contest. The receptionist was incredibly nervous everytime we were going to talk to her because she didn't spoke English. To the point that one time I went to ask for towels and she went away! So we did this on everyone we talk to and they only laughed and tried to talk back but you could feel they really wanted to help.
At the beach and at night it was different. We encountered a lot of outside tourist. They were different from the locals, they were more friendly but asked to much. They could notice we were locals but the locals couldn't figure out we were really puertorrican. Overall it was a fun experience and a good way to make people treat you more friendly and less hostile.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)