{"id":1186,"date":"2022-12-09T00:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2023-10-28T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T22:00:41","slug":"writing-exercises-1-from-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2022\/12\/09\/writing-exercises-1-from-obe\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Exercises, 1 (From OBE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am trying to focus more on applying what I notice in reading essays to my own writing. Here are a set of prospective exercises I&#8217;ve generated after re-reading selections from the Oxford Book of Essays with KC :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Superposition<\/strong>. Providing differing points of view on the same thing\/event\/space to convey uncertainty\/ambiguity. [cf. The Haunted Mind, Note 3, offers alternate PoVs: Is the sound of the bell from the dream or the world? Is the author is in the space of the dream or are the dream figments in the bedroom?]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Minor Key Interlude.<\/strong> A description of a train of thought, or conversation, that in response to some happenstance moves into a minor \u2013 dark, distressing, depressing \u2013 mode, and then, through more happenstance or perhaps intentional effort, moves back out of it. Attend to the inflection points. [cf. The Haunted Mind, Note s 6 &amp; 7, where hypnagogic turn dark when being swaddled in bedclothes evokes a corpse in a shroud, and then attention to everyday objects serves to vitiate that line of thought].<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Animated Trajectory through Three-space.<\/strong> Convey the sensation of a 3D environment by allusions to its structure; by agents moving through it; by objects falling and bouncing; by sound. [cf. The Acorn-Gatherer, Note 2, on the rooks moving about in the tree].<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Persuasion via vivid description and inserting oneself into the scene. <\/strong>Vividness, particularity and layering of detail makes a description more convincing, and then with the describer injects themselves into the scene as describes themselves in the act of seeing and feeling. [cf. The Clergyman (Beerbohm)]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Zoom in from Safe Distant Anonymity to Too-Close Intimate Proximity.<\/strong> Zoom in on people interacting. Begin with a comfortable distant overview (e.g. momentary distant glimpses), and then zoom in to show the fine-structure of intimate and not-entirely-easy interaction, whether wanted or not (e.g. continuous up-close eye-contact). (cf. Insouciance.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Views: 26<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to focus more on applying what I notice in reading essays to my own writing. Here are a set of prospective exercises I&#8217;ve generated after re-reading selections from the Oxford Book of Essays with KC : Views: 26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,39,50,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal_notes","category-craft-of-writing","category-things-ive-learned","category-things_to_try"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}