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."