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Part 2. Project 1. Exercise 2

Make a list of everything you’ve read or written or seen or heard in the last 24 hours

What I consider to be stories I have highlighted in bold.

What I consider to be art I have highlighted in italics.

I have read –

  • Start Late and Finish Rich (finance book)
  • Place (set textbook)
  • Creative Arts Today (OCA course PDF)
  • A food menu

I have written –

  • Assignment for Part 1 Contemporary Arts
  • The first exercises in this Part 2
  • A text message to a friend complaining about my boss (haha)
  • A to-do list
  • A passcode for the internet

I have seen –

  • Adult Life Skills (Film)
  • The Great British Sewing Bee (TV)
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Film)
  • Thor : Ragnorak (Film)
  • Total Recall (Film)
  • News

I have heard –

  • A story about a fight
  • Information about someone else’s marathon

How do you, personally, define a creative artistic piece of writing?

Until I read the essay by Hazel Smith I would have read this question and thought that it applied only to writing fiction and possibly poetry. Now however I am uncomfortably aware that it probably means something a lot more arty and abstract than I want it too! Because of this my definition is now a little les specific than it would have been.

  I define a creative, artistic piece of writing as one in which the author takes the reader away from their current situation and into another moment either remembered or imagined. The words must flow from the page without tripping the eye to allow subconscious transportation.

Part 2. Introduction Exercise

In this intial exercise I am to write down all the lists that I can think of about why people read and write. I am then to see what I notice about the two lists and if any of the entries are duplicated.

Why people read

  • Escapism
  • Entertainment
  • Education (self help and institutional learning)
  • Curiosity
  • Inspiration
  • Relaxation

Why people write

  • To entertain
  • To share knowledge
  • To tell a story that won’t go away
  • To relax
  • To remember events

When looking at my two lists I notice that there are a couple of common factors, entertainment appears on both as does relaxation. I do not think that people are either readers or writers. Everyone is a storyteller of some sort, some people are just better at writing them down than others.