Thursday, November 19, 2009
reflection on library stalking
I think this activity would be useful for writers because it pushed us out of our comfort zone and made us try something different. It also made us pay close attention to the little details of a person's movements and presence (much like the article of the dog vs. human interaction). This activity got us to stretch as if we were about to run a race or write a paper, by getting us to think and generate adjectives and metaphors that pertain to our subject. The idea of stalking someone seemed weird in the beginning, but it actually related to the article we just read because it had me looking at people in a completely different light. You can tell how approachable someone is by their position. Are they slouching? Sitting upright? Is there outfit laid back or put together? There are so many details it's almost overwhelming. I think that this exercise was supposed to train us to be as descriptive as possible, because in writing we must paint a picture and tell a story to get our point across. Details, details, details. Thinking of metaphoric equivalences for our adjectives and descriptions helped us better understand what we were really looking at and it gave us a wider pool of options to choose how to illustrate our subject.
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I agree with you in the fact that the stalking activity was definitely helpful. It pushed us to really observe what was going on and the details around us. Normally you don't really pay attention to the way people sit or the way people react to the activity they are doing. I think that this exercise was meant to get us to use detail more effectively in our writing. The metaphor part I thought was really hard and I couldn't really think of any good ones. I didn't think it helped that much because in my opinon metaphors make things harder to understand sometimes. Like metaphors in some poems.
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