Christian

Also:

Yakov, Yakwool, Yakko.

I once had a hat that was made from the wool of yaks. I think that's sufficient.

Yak keeps my head warm and dry.

Yakking keeps my mind warm and dry.

It also tastes a little funny.

I'm an english writing major, theatre child, and citizen of the internet.

I'm also prone to bouts of

Chronic philosophy

absurd nostalgia

Assignments:

Writing ex 1: Purple

Yak et Allison once upon a time patchwork: Fairytale exercise

Writing ex 2: In comments

CHT34 In-class 2-17

CHT34 In-class 2-23 

podcast draft

Game Design:

The Big Plot: Janus Jester

Janus summary

Notes:

CHT34 Notes 2-23

CHT34 Notes 1-20

How do you read a piece that doesn't read the same way twice? What is it? How does narrative change when it is not linear?

In reading Patchwork girl, any traditional approach of analysis breaks down almost immediately. The experience is, of itself, variable. How, then, do you "evaluate" the experience? Honestly folks, it's not that different.

Individual lexia: Have you ever happened upon a sentence that was so beautiful you had to repeat it to someone nearby, or a paragraph that stood so well on its own that it was worth buying the refrigerator magnet it came on? Lexia are another division like that. Lexia represent a new division off thought. What sort of division? what kind of thought? those are up to the author. It can be a single sentence, word, image, paragraph, you get the idea. The only thing that a reader can assume is that they will be given a complete bite, a coherent snapshot, that leads them from the previous lexia to the next.

range of experience: Beyond individual lexia and the interactions between them there is the whole body of the text. Given what the author has determined to be a "complete" experience, what has happeneed? How have you been moved? What thought has the experience provoked? Now, go  through the text again. How have these changed? how was the second "completion" of the text different artistically from the first? How does the juxtaposition of the two experiences enrich your total experience? Repeat as necessary.