In the personal narrative, “Kerry Spencer’s How to Write a Seriously Awful Personal Narrative,” I found many hilarious parallels to my life and how I write. An example would be when she starts by saying start your personal narrative by procrastinating and going on Facebook to see who has broken up that night. I find this funny because I cannot count how many times when I had a huge paper to write and I found myself staring at my computer screen chatting with my friends on Facebook. “No one is boring who will tell the truth about himself,” is a quote from Quentin Crisp and this is completely true when dealing with this personal narrative full of irony and hilarity. This is true because whenever we try to write a good paper it is full of words we would never use and also full of thesaurus based vocabulary. It is so much easier to express yourself and say what you would normally say as a person and not as a robot writing a paper. Kerry also talks about how you should always draw away from what you are trying to get across and having this full personal narrative being about irony, it is funny how she puts it and that is that you need to make everything sound boring so that the reader thinks, “Why the heck did I just read that?!” How Kerry writes this paper completely gives me a visual of how she acts and what she is trying to get across as a person. This then brings me back to my quote on that she is being herself and telling truths about what she thinks as a writer.
I really liked that part of our readings as well. It sounds like I am a lot like you and Kerry too. I think the hardest part about writing is actually sitting down to do it. There are just so many distractions! When I sit down with my computer to write I always check my email and Facebook and family website and blog and the news and the latest movie reviews and Facebook again and then email one more time. Then I usually go to youtube to listen to music, but I get distracted finding new songs. Once I get that far, I've wasted all the time I had to write my essay and I have to come up with some brilliant-ness in less than 30 minutes. It's at those moments when I start to write like I'm a genius... which I'm not! :) I try to use big words and long complex sentences to make it sound like I slaved over the paper. I’ve actually enjoyed the readings in this class so far though, because they’ve really helped me get a better idea about how to actually write papers. And, believe it or not… I’ve actually started a paper today that isn’t due for another two weeks! But, I figured I would put all of the stuff we’ve been reading about to the test! Good luck getting started on your paper! :)
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how many times I've gone on facebook whilst struggling with a paper. As Brittany said you waste so much time on social networks such as facebook that you end up rushing to finish an assignment. I would definitely agree that you have to be truthful and talk about yourself during a personal narrative however I think to make it more creative you have to bend the truth slightly. What I mean by this is to make it a bit livelier you can exaggerate certain areas of the story so it entices the reader a bit more. However, I do think being ironic can add a good element to the narrative so I concur with you on this point.
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