Blogging Around

As I was brousing through my classmates blogs, I saw that Margot had blogged about Raymond Carver's writing in Cathedral as her best of the week. She discussed his techniques and the story's effect on her own writing. I responded ...

Margot,

Carver's writing techniques in Cathedral really inspired me too. His variation of sentence legnth to convey Bub's state of mind was incredible. I'm really going to try to incorporate that into my story as well. Though, like you said, I'm not sure I'll be as successful as Carver. I also really like the idea of using actions to show emotion and delve into your characters is great. So, all in all, i agree that reading from these great authors is really going to help me improve my writing and I'm excited to continue working on my short story.

I also looked at Deuce's (Mitchell Bigelow) blog since he always has something intersting to say. He wrote about how he would have taken the blue pill if he was in Neo's situation and why. I wrote ...

Deuce Bigs,

Although I am still not entirely sure which pill I would choose myself, I can now see why choosing between the red and blue pills is not necessarily a clear cut good/bad, right/wrong decision. The first thing you said I agreed with in a previous post of my own (although not as articulately worded). The "outside" could be a desolate, crappy place to live with absolutely no guarantee of survival like in The Matrix. Also, you can't do kung-fu there. Your analysis of memories was really insightful as well. Your discussion of the imperfection of memory and whether or not real memories are better than fake ones was very well written. The repitiion in the last paragraph was great too. Overall, sweet blog.