Assigned Blog Post #2: Soanywayyy

I get off track a lot. In my head, in my speech, in my... life. It's not that I waste time, I just... have a lot of thoughts. Katie Giseburt described ADD pretty well last year when she said "they say it's deficit of attention, but really I have so much asking for my attention that I can't fit it all into my head." I don't actually have ADD (not that I know of anyway...) but I don't focus very well at all. This means my conversations, emails, and writings tend to be long and tangenty. And I have lots of poems that I don't put up because the poem I started out writing is very different from what I ended up saying, and what came of it was rather ridiculous.

I think my writing reflects my personality quite a bit, although I hope to experiment with voice enough that I am able to create pieces that don't sound like me at all. I'm a distractable person- my writing changes direction frequently. I'm a pretty honest person even when people would really rather I weren't- my writing is pretty blunt and to the point. I don't use many metaphors to describe things because I don't think in metaphors, I think in adjectives. It's not a mountain of papers, filling up my desk space and brain space and threatening to egulf my physical and psychoogical world, it's... just a big stack of papers. I don't think there's much I do in my writing to make it different and interesting, but when I see other people's writing I always wonder why they have so much fluff. Like claire's (sorry I don't include anonymity, nothing I say is actually bad)- Clarie describes things so much without actually saying what she's talking about. I won't pretend to be succinct, but I do like to be clear in what I'm saying. I guess that makes sense in person too; Claire likes to pretend things are happening when they're not (yes, you all already knew that) and I like to get to the point. The thing is that a plot doesn't usually have a specific point so... I dunnooo

I guess I'm supposed to adress the first half of the assignment, huh? I like Junot Diaz's writing, but I think this is heavily influenced by his use of Spanglish. It's not a way I aspire to write and the themes aren't generally themes I like to write about (though they are themes I'm interested reading about), but it is cool that he has such a strong voice in his writing and that it's so distinctive. I guess it's interesting to me to see how other authors use voice and how they really portray the character of the narrator through the way he/she describes the world instead of through what he or she is actually describing, and it's a skill I'll try to acquire, with lots and lots of trabajo :P