Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Some Things I Admired About Lauren Slater's Writing.
Ok, sorry to my audience for the boring title, but I am not going to go back and change it now. I think the main thing I noticed in Lauren Slater's "Consumer Report," was how focused she was even though it was quite a complex essay. She introduced events vaugely then explained them later on. This created suspense, but she also introduces events without explaining how it ended and left me with intense feelings, mostly of fear and sadness. I want to try to explicate an emotion and not go off on a tangent. I want to talkabout the many facets of a topic and stay focused at the same time.
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Nice. :D You always seem to get way more out of a piece of work than I do; analyzing everything and thinking thoroughly before you say anything about it. That's awesome! Good descriptive words, too....high-five!
I totaly agree with you because I read the same article on Consumer Report. I'ts funny how we got the same impression of the essay staring out a little slow and kind of picking up the pace the more you read on. I guess that's something that I recognized but really didn't think to consider it as being a writing technique. She used a creshendo effect. Thanks for the incite. I like it!
I loved that article too, it was one of my favorites. She took the story quite a few diffrent places, from Japan and Sushi to graves and dying, getting old, to the freedom the feel of a new car can bring and back to the original point of things breaking down and the uncertainty that it can bring.
Keep writing!
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