Thursday, January 22, 2015

Response assignment 2

The first thought chapter in writing down the bones was a very inspirational chapter to me.  The idea of stream of conscious writing has always been a source of intrigue to me and the way that it is discussed in this chapter really paints it in a light not of a meaningless excersise but in a tool used for meaningful writing.
The discussion of an egoless thought being developed in a raw manner that forces a writer to tap purely into a prompt without waiting or worrying is entirely fascinating to me.  I have often been trapped by various concerns when expressing a point that the original emotion fueling why I want to communicate that point is lost amongst the worry.
Another reason I enjoyed this chapter is because in my own spoken word endeavors I have recently been wanting to dive into a more "freestyle" approach to slam poetry and using this chapter as a tool to cultivate raw emotions and raw responses can help me formulate ideas using my writing style immediately rather than trying to fit an idea to that style over time.

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