Final Blog

I'm surprised the last blog came so soon! This week I've mostly been drowned in writing final papers, so it was nice to have the portfolio at well, since it was much more fun/relaxing. I actually ended up writing a few new pieces, since my original work had been revised multiple times before I turned it in (which is usually just how I go about writing). We're also very close to done with the Lit Journals, which were generally fun to work on.

I'm not exactly looking forward to reading my own work this week (I've done readings before, and they're very... unnerving--I usually prefer to talk to about my writing much more than actually read it), but it will be interesting to see how everyone else approaches it. A lot of time it depends: I have a strange belief that most literary writing isn't meant to be read out loud (sort of like Koch says, it's a "different language"--or, according to Samuel Delany, more theoretically, it's an "entirely separate rhetorical space... that happens to share the same vocabulary"), but sometimes it really does bring new life to the work.

Other than that: today I watched a video of Bukowski reading out loud that I really liked, which was interesting because he kept taking shots of whiskey between stanzas. It's extremely cold outside and winter will be here for real in just a few days.