I didn't take issue with writing in any particular genre. The only thing I really hate to write is research papers, but I've sucked it up the times that they needed to be done. Other than that, I like playing around with different formats of texts and different tones when writing.
I wasn't too fond of using Twitter at first (and I'm still not its biggest fan) but I've found that it's kind of a helpful way of organzing my thoughts, or at least getting them down somewhere. I'm forever carrying around a notebook for such thoughts, and forever not using it. I like writing (pen and paper writing) just as much as any other form of technology, but because I'm always on the go, using more up to date technologies makes more sense. In this way, Twitter was helpful. It also made me realize that I complain a LOT about snow and cold weather. This is why my found poem was about my wanting to get out of this weather.
I enjoyed the readings because they were different from each other. It's nice to lose the monotony of ten page reading after ten page reading of academic work. It was also inspiring to see that even though we might write in different lengths, forms and tones, each work can still be powerful in its own way.
I thought it was much easier to take a line from Anzaldua's work and our tweets and use them as inspiration for micro fiction than to use our micro fiction and tweets as texts for haikus and poems. I guess I like the standard pyramid better - starting with a little information and broadening from there. I feel like my creativity is stifled when I can only use so many words to create something new. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy the challenge. Maybe if my tweets had been about more concrete things, I would have had an easier time with my found poem. The common theme among the tweets, however, did make it easy to find a subject for the poem.
I think my favorite reading and writing was the micro fiction. It's not because I hate to write or read long stories. It's more that I feel micro fiction can have such a huge impact on a reader. Because there are so few words, there is more responsibility on the reader's part to piece together the meaning of it. I like texts that make you think. I like texts that stay with you long after you've put them down. Micro fiction to me is a carefully planned snippet of time that's just floating out there, waiting for you to grab it and make it your own. This can be said about any text, of course. There's just something about wanting to be involved in the simplicity of a moment that draws my attention to micro fiction.
I wasn't too fond of using Twitter at first (and I'm still not its biggest fan) but I've found that it's kind of a helpful way of organzing my thoughts, or at least getting them down somewhere. I'm forever carrying around a notebook for such thoughts, and forever not using it. I like writing (pen and paper writing) just as much as any other form of technology, but because I'm always on the go, using more up to date technologies makes more sense. In this way, Twitter was helpful. It also made me realize that I complain a LOT about snow and cold weather. This is why my found poem was about my wanting to get out of this weather.
I enjoyed the readings because they were different from each other. It's nice to lose the monotony of ten page reading after ten page reading of academic work. It was also inspiring to see that even though we might write in different lengths, forms and tones, each work can still be powerful in its own way.
I thought it was much easier to take a line from Anzaldua's work and our tweets and use them as inspiration for micro fiction than to use our micro fiction and tweets as texts for haikus and poems. I guess I like the standard pyramid better - starting with a little information and broadening from there. I feel like my creativity is stifled when I can only use so many words to create something new. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy the challenge. Maybe if my tweets had been about more concrete things, I would have had an easier time with my found poem. The common theme among the tweets, however, did make it easy to find a subject for the poem.
I think my favorite reading and writing was the micro fiction. It's not because I hate to write or read long stories. It's more that I feel micro fiction can have such a huge impact on a reader. Because there are so few words, there is more responsibility on the reader's part to piece together the meaning of it. I like texts that make you think. I like texts that stay with you long after you've put them down. Micro fiction to me is a carefully planned snippet of time that's just floating out there, waiting for you to grab it and make it your own. This can be said about any text, of course. There's just something about wanting to be involved in the simplicity of a moment that draws my attention to micro fiction.
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