Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Journal Entry #2 - Second Person Autobiography
Hours drift by like snow past the window. Wandering and revising, your mind lingers on that perfect idea. What's interests is interesting, you mouth silently. Oh, this treacherous assignment, you think. Don't they understand you need sleep tonight? How can you possibly write an alternate ending to such a well-known book without getting chastised? It was named a Tale of Two Cities, not the Tale You Should End Yourself.
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You read 'Tale of Two Cities' in highschool? I thought that was retired now--nothing against Dickens who's a writing ace (and I'm re-reading 'Bleak House' these days), but TOTC is not even good Dickens, and highschool English ought to be doing more than teaching people to loathe writing.
So, first person, you burrowed in and did a mock rant on the jobs you did and didn't get. Here you burrow in and do a mock lament on the impossibility of the assignment.
So, this is tighter but that's got more juice. We'll look for tight writing and juice, eh?
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