I enjoyed reading chapter 3 this week. I like the idea of writing something from someone else’s perspective. Being so young, I haven’t really gone through a great deal of experiences that are easy or interesting to write about (guess that’s where defamiliarization could help me out a lot).The problem is that I’ve always thought that I couldn’t really write anything deep or important because my life isn’t all that exciting. Yet somehow when I first read it, the concept of writing as someone else was oddly foreign to me. Then again when writing a story the main character usually isn’t the author them self; so this concept is really practical. After thinking about this more I’ve come up with several different people I’d like to write in the perspective of.
I especially the section “Voice Training” and “Playing Puppeteer”. I’m a huge fan of the poem “Cinderelly, Cinderelly”. I found the concept so very clever. I like the lines: “That godmother was a fake/and fat, and I didn’t don that hat/and doting smile/to get pushed aside/a rat forgotten/After a post-menopausal whim.” I found it so funny. Reading the Cinderella poem really made me want to try this same technique with other children stories and fables that I’ve grown up hearing.
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