In Which I Write About Writing...Again (21 of 90)

Hello again.

Didn't I do this yesterday?:

I might have. I'm not entirely sure, but seeing as tonight was spent much like last night, I'm not going to apologize for any similarity in posts. I'm writing yet another critique. Of course, this one isn't creatively critical, its more straight analysis/critique, but still. My days and nights are spent working on these things, it's only logical that I constantly think about them.

The analysis for my magazine class is entirely different than what I've ever done before. It's actually kind of refreshing, in that annoying as all hell kind of way. I'm still not entirely sure I'm doing this properly, but that's fine by me, I feel like I've gotten a little bit closer to what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to remove myself from the equation, it's not about whether you like the story or like how it's written, it's about the words on the page. The way they flow, how they function, what purpose they serve. As I read through, I actually find myself enjoying looking at the stories so closely, but at the same time it's entirely strange.

I spend most of my Wednesdays working on creative critical essays, which are, for the most part, entirely about what I think and how the words make me feel. And then I turn around Wednesday nights and ignore all feeling and analyze in an entirely different way. It's exciting.

I know, I'm a nerd. I'm genuinely excited by the different ways you can analyze something. Last semester I did literary analysis. This semester creative critical and I don't even know what to call it. Three different ways to analyze over the course of a year. Not to mention these writing styles are entirely different from anything I'd had to do in a class before. I love that.

I am, however, extremely glad that I tend to look over the works on separate days. I read through magazine stuff on Sundays and Mondays generally, and English stuff whenever I find time. I think that if I tried to do both in succession, or if the reading material were remotely similar, I might have issues crossing over styles. Yay short stories vs. magazine articles.

Hopefully magazine stuff won't start taking over too much, I've already tried to hero's journey Star Trek, much to my chagrin.

Quote of the Day:

"You must write every single day of your life... you must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."

-Ray Bradbury