I really appreciated how the first chapter broke down the important steps of a narrative, the parts you should include, and the importance of detail. Personally I love to read stories with a lot of detail, and i tend to write with a lot of detail. Often my poetry is more detail than anything else. I benefited from how the chapter broke down how to define a purpose and topic and how to really bring it out in a story. In my writing I aways struggle on making my purpose and topic clear and I struggle on building it up to make it seem important and defined. I always have a tough time with different audiences. I feel like I can only reach a certain audience, so I really appreciated the section about how to reach your audience and what the readers want. As a visual learner I thought the section about adding visuals was on point. I have always been a visual learner and enjoy seeing images with my readings not only because it's fun to see, but also because you can really connect with the reading and the emotions the author intended by the images the author chose to include.
I benefited from all the examples in chapter 66 including the readings and the images. I struggle with writers block quite often and bringing able to view the flow of another narrative is a lot of help. The comic showed a great example of a way in incorporate images to your writing, in a way I didn't expects. Often when I think of added images to writing I think of just including pictures along the way. The last thing I would think of is showing your whole story through images.
Both of these chapters were very helpful to me, and showed many ways that I can improve my writing to make it more attention catching, and interesting.
Really great authors struggle with the audience problem. There is an exceptional ability in writing for various audiences; an author who can go from journalism to poetry to the novel or from horror to science-fiction to romance is a rare thing. Yet, to some extent, everyone is asked to wear various hats when writing in college. Yay for challenge!
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