In addition to your peers' questions, we didn't get to our writing assignment for 7/23. Try and use your blogging time to respond to this:
"I Remember" Writing Exercise (this is based on Joe Brainard's memoir, I Remember)
Begin with a blank page (or blog screen) and a clear mind. Write "I remember" and begin to allow yourself to remember different experiences.
Try to avoid any preconceived notions of where your memory will take you. Start writing down memories, beginning each one with "I remember..." (so that it reads like a list). Allow your mind to remember, in no particular order. If you start to get stuck, think of the senses and follow your eyes, nose, ear, tongue, fingers, etc into their memories.
If you start to get stuck again, follow the phrase, "I remember" with a random letter or word and then write from there (when do you remember that random letter or word?). Try to inhabit your memories with specificity.
The repetition of the phrase "I remember" is all you need to connect your disparate memories. This repetition of the beginning word or phrase is an example of the literary device "anaphora," a device found in the prayers and texts of many of the world's religions.
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I remember the time i flew off the end of my bed because i thought i was peter pan..
ReplyDeleteI remmeber times when i really thought i loved him
I remember looking forward to recess
I remember my crush in the second grade (what a hottie)
I remember feeling lonley
I remember my first movie i wen to see ina theatre...Bambi!!!
I remember thinking that religion was dumb
I remember the first day of high school at a new school....3 times over
I remember running around in an open feild with my brother
I remember running and being good at it
I remembergetting suckers at the doctors office
I remember wrestling Mike over my computer last night!!!!!!!! (douche)
I remember...not wanting to wake up this morning.
ReplyDeleteI remember...trying to decide if I should get some coffee.
I remember...regretting not getting some coffee.
I remember...deciding that I miss my ex-girlfriend even though she's a bitch.
I remember...telling her she's a bitch.
I remember...the first time we made love.
I remember...the first time I told her I love her.
I remember...not remembering why we broke up.
I remember...75% of my ex-girlfriends
Iremember...why I started writing poetry in the first place.
I remember the first day of 8th grade.
ReplyDeleteI remember the time me and 2 of my friends left a cab b4 paying..
I remember having a block party when i was a kid
I remember the day i got my car
I remember getting my mini bike
I remember my first job
I remember my first show
I remember the day i quit track lol
I remember the days that all i had to worry about was when i got to play.
ReplyDeleteI rememeber the days when i still trusted people
i remember the days i could run for miles and never be tired.
i remember the days when i would watch the marathon of Power Rangers
I remember the days when i was proud of what our country is doing.
I remember the days of high school.
ReplyDeleteI remember the first day of high school.
I remember my first kiss at the movie theatres watching Sponge Bob Square pants.
I remember the first time I heard about September 11th during class.
I remember spending time with my old friends from grade school.
I remember all my old friends.
I remember making the dance team Hip Hop Connxion.
I remember when I went to the hospital and had my episodes.
I remember when I lost my virginity.
I remmember gettting a nail stuck in my tire this weekend.
I remember a time when I said I didn't believe in God.
I remember joy riding in my car during highschool.
I remember letting someone else drive my car on the fourth of July and then getting in a car accident.
I remember my suprise 21st birthday.