| Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| landscapes |
Because non-content makes me feel worse than no content, here's a writing exercise designed to show you the difference between writing what you know and what you don't. Spend five minutes writing about your hometown, stop, and spend five minutes writing about Hanoi on a Sunday afternoon [substitute alternate city if you are familiar with Hanoi].
If nothing else, Wheeling is flat. It has no skyline. You can not, however, see the stars. Essential suburbia, the houses were cloned from other houses, grown in test-tubes and transplanted onto identical plots of land along a well-lit street that ensured a hazy, homogeneous view of the sky.
Hanoi on a Sunday afternoon has flowers I have never heard of. The sidewalks all run alongside steep embankments to pristine rivers where college students spend entire afternoons searching for four-leaf clovers.
The exercise was introduced to help a boy in workshop who kept submitting half-page rants instead of well-established essays. After we'd finished, we went around the room to see who was better at which type of writing. Mine was the only instance in which we couldn't tell. It probably doesn't in fact just mean that I am awesome at everything, but for lack of a more interesting explanation, I'll go with that. |
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| Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| vague much |
| I lost something yesterday that I was hanging on to, and it left me looking at my hands, wondering what to do with them. |
| posted by La Malinche @ 11:31 PM |
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