Whoof.
It was a doozy.
Although suprisingly not nearly as difficult as I had expected. (Then again, when one specializes in love, it probably shouldn't be such a hard thing to write and ruminate about, no?)
And that's what I experienced this project as being: one big written rumination. I'm not sure whether that was the intended feel to get from it (and I'm almost positive it wasn't) but hey, it's what happened. And it's something I've never experienced on an essay before.
I don't want to say the method Tessa and I developed was haphazard or...aimless, but it developed just as a conversation would. We were to write a dialogue about the GENERAL theory of love and I feel it developed as such; after all, I don't know many people who talk in focused, scripted essay speak.
I feel with this we accomplished a comfortable, authentic dialogue (or trialogue) beyween the characters and discovered a lot about love and it's different modes of existence and requirements, etc. I feel we kept the characters on a tight enough leash to not seem rambling and idiotic, but we also gave them enough room to explore their previous actions and emotions, now that they are "free".
Is till feel, however, a bit unaccomplished regarding the whole essay. I'm not sure there was a strong enough structure, though I feel the desired effect was accomplished. In the end, I left with an empty "has this really been done right?" feeling, probably because I'd never done an essay of this easy style before (and I say easy because I love dialogue and find it very easy to write.)
In the end, I can say that I felt I excercised a whole different pair of muscles and, although it felt awkward and I'm not sure I excercised those weights 100 % correctly, I feel I came out of it with a very appreciated literary experience.
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I really enjoyed this post Dylan! Margot and I also worked with the same topic and I experienced similar feelings while writing and after completing the assignment. I feel it was very different from most writing we have done thus far in Academy. I think it's interesting that we all felt a bit weird about it and then, as a class, we ended up showing Mr. Allen that we still have plenty to learn. I feel like maybe we missed something about the aim of the assignment and therefore didn't execute it as well as we could have.
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