Reading 02 - Narratives

Notes and thoughts

• OFFER DETAILS - colors, shapes, sounds, textures and other physical impressions let readers create a picture in their mind, keeping them more captivated and like they're going on an experience.
• Be careful with cliches, audiences want authenticity
• Focus on people
• Keep the focus narrowed and choose a manageable subject
  • Don't do something that someone else has MOST LIKELY been through before - first job, first love, etc.
• I KINDA WANNA DO MY FIRST LEAFS UPSET
  • crying
  • always happens
  • new beginnings
• add voices to a narrative that aren't your own - gives another perspective
• DRAFTS DRAFTS DRAFTS it DOESN'T AND ISN'T perfect on the first try
• use first person - I
• active verbs versus passive voice
• one strong word versus several weaker ones (freezing versus very cold)

Bald is NOT Beautiful - Leah Vann

• "I have a love-hate relationship with my red hair. I hate how curly it is, so I always straighten it. People stop me in grocery stores or shopping malls to tell me how beautiful my hair is. How thick it is. And how do I grow it out so long? To the point it falls almost down to my hips in the back? I'm so damn lucky."
• "She's dying. No, Leah, you're dying."