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Value Proposition- learning points from this class

Group

  • Ethos, Pathos, Logos- Greek argumentative modalities

  • Enhancement of dimensions

  • The importance of turning oneself into a character

  • Verisimilitude- importance of truth over fact

Class

  • Quirks, personae development

    • Personae/character can be created just through diction choice (narration)

    • Quirks have their own “diction” or personality

  • Importance of verisimilitude; truth vs. fact…?

  • Memory is subjective; details count!

    • Multiple perspectives

  • Story/Scene-building

    • Behaviors

    • Actions

    • Reactions

    • Demonstrations

  • “Show AND Tell”, not one alone

    • Find a balance (good luck!)

  • Turning oneself into a unique, relatable character

    • Use literary devices- lets the reader participate, which increases relatability

    • Polarizes readers into “Yes, I relate to that” or “No, I don’t relate to that”

  • LOPATE: “We must be amusing”

    • What does amusing mean?

      • It only matters what we think is amusing

      • You can’t please all readers

  • We are compelled by story

    • 3 PROPERTIES

      • Compelling characters

      • A conflict that either does or does not reach a resolution

        • Conflict does not have to be grand

      • Relationships that reach verisimilitude

    • Linearity isn’t crucial

Everyone’s opinion is only THEIR opinion— INCLUDING JESSE WATERS!!!!!

EngFish- yes, it’s language, but something’s fucked up

    Use what’s in your throat

    Don’t intellectualize your writing too much- write as if you were telling someone this story

The process- Abstraction to the page

  • Think about a memory

  • Going through photos

  • Bulleted list of what I remember

  • Voice-to-text

  • Stream of consciousness

  • Looking through an old journal

Orienting events around historical events

    “Moments in time”-

        George Floyd/BLM/“I can’t breathe”

        Assassination of Bin Laden

        9/11

        Death of Kobe Bryant

        Death of MJ/Prince

    Helps make it feel real

    People will make the connections