At the 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication, three well-known scholars of composition led a discussion on a writing exercise they'd assigned themselves. Each wrote for an hour a day for a 30-day month on an everyday object, a consciousness-raising activity that revealed much about the the objects examined and the writers themselves. We've taken it upon ourselves to replicate this exercise and record the results here.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Day 6: Pobject's magnolia tree
In June her cicadas sing – a sea swell rising to the white-eyed sky.
Thank you, Kerri! I spent about two hours writing and rewriting and filled a Word doc with two or three pages of prose and verse, and then it came to me to try to capture the feeling of my first summer nights in the South, as succinctly as possible.
I love the idea of "white-eyed sky"! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kerri! I spent about two hours writing and rewriting and filled a Word doc with two or three pages of prose and verse, and then it came to me to try to capture the feeling of my first summer nights in the South, as succinctly as possible.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome! Talk about process... :)
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