Moment
1: The first moment I had in this class was when I learned about the
Rhetorical Situation. Until then I only wrote what flowed through my brain
trying do the best I could. It was really hit and miss actually. Once I learned
about Rhetorical situation, audience, context, and exigence, my writing seemed
to have direction and purpose. I could finally arrange my writing through a
formula to make it flow and sound better than ever before. I have an analytical
mind and understand things best when I can picture a logical process or image
about what I’m doing. Bitzer’s triangle is all I ever think about every time I
write. It may not come into play when I type flowingly, but it certainly comes
into play when I revise. I finally understood what always bugged me about my
writing; I could never evaluate. Finally I can evaluate my writing and progress
as a writer by practicing writing exigence to an audience with context.
Moment 2: The second moment I had when I was watching a movie at the beginning of the school year. It finally hit me what makes good movies and stores great. Those story lines follow a duality. The first is the main story and is usually action packed and unique, something that catches the reader’s attention. The second is the back story and it usually humanizes and grounds the characters. For example, in Breaking Bad, the show is mainly about a Chemistry teacher who starts cooking the best meth the world has ever seen. The story is crazy, unique, and out of this world, but there is a back story. The teacher has a family, a son and a wife, not to mention his brother and sister in-law. He is the everyday man that we can relate to… only he cooks meth. I realized that the best story has two parts, one subtle and the other extraordinary. From the moment I realized that I have tried to write interesting stories with duality within them. It usually works best with creative work or fiction.
Moment
3: The third moment I had after my first blog. This really wasn’t a moment
about how to write better or a writing method, it was more a moment where I
learned how to write. I found that I could write some of my best work while writing
spontaneously and flowing directly what is in my mind onto a page. This allows
me to get all of my thoughts down on paper and then arrange them later with
revisions and drafts. It’s the easiest process I’ve ever discovered! I used to
take an hour to write 200 words and now I can do it in 5 minutes. This is truly
the most useful moment I have ever come across. I can finally write like I
speak. My writing is literally the annals of my mind.
I enjoy how your first and third moments contrast. The first is all about how you need to stop and think about what you're writing in order to get all the details down right. And the third shows that you still value spontaneity. You have two contrasting philosophies, which each have a very different impact on how your writing might sound. I also think your concept of multiple stories woven into one is pretty cool. There are a lot of layers to everything, including out best stories.
ReplyDeleteI really agree with you when you say that finally I can evaluate my writing and progress as a writer by practicing writing exigence to an audience with context because I have the same feeling with you. The knowledge we have learned is truly helpful with my writing, especially I know what the writing is. I also can realize a writing is good or not now because I know the concept of writing.
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