Blog 12/12: "Do you have any advice for those of us just starting out?"

     Be free spirited. Regardless of what the assignment is, don't be afraid to take risks and think outside the box. Granted, doing so might receive some negative attention but that's okay; it means you actually stood up for something and that you're writing has a real voice. What others may think of your writing is not important; just be true to who you are, write what you want to, and most importantly, feel what you want to. Like Koertge stated:
"Laugh so loud everybody in the world frowns and says 'shhh'.
Then start again."
It's the people with the most haters who tend to have the biggest impact on society.

Blog 11/12:Are the four-letter word projects writing?

     If one considers writing as expressing yourself and your thoughts on a subject matter, then the four-letter word projects are definitely pieces of writing. Mostly all of the projects I watched in class had some type of argument or thought process behind it. Each video showed what that person's thoughts were on that specific word they chose and what exactly that word meant to them. This is what writing is about -- making arguments and/or expressing your thoughts.

Blog 9/12: Anticipated audience when putting on text? Twitter audience?

     I guess, in the literal sense, my tweeting audience isn't jut my followers but anyone who lands on my page and actually bothers to read my posts. However, I also think by tweeting, your number one audience if yourself. Twitter seems to serve more for the purpose of letting out how you are feeling and what you are thinking and since it's your Twitter account, you're going to be on your page the most and thus reading your own tweets more often than others.
     When it comes to wearing text, I really don't anticipate any kind of audience. The only reason I'd wear a shirt with text on it is if its a cute shirts or if I like how it looks. I don't necessarily wear text in the hopes or anticipation that someone will read it and start a conversation.

Blog 6/12: Twouble with Twitter

     I'm not really a Twitter user. The only account I've made was the one for this class. If I was one, I think my audience would pretty much be whoever followed me which would mainly be friends. In an online writing environment, I think I feel more free to express myself because although what you post will be read, I'm not all that conscious of it. For some reason, writing online feels more like a personal diary rather than a public thing that many people have access to reading.

Blog 8/12: Reiterate the crayon piece you recieved

Text: Is it true that flexibility in voice leads to flexibility in all things? I don't necessarily believe so. I mean a man or woman with many different voices may not be very flexible. They could be stubborn in their opinions but be able to voice them in many different ways. It also doesn't mean they are physically flexible, they could be extremely unathletic. Flexibility in voice is a talent but it doesn't mean that you are automatically flexible in other ways."

Drawing: A stick figure talking into a microphone in all different directions, then a not equal sign leading to a stick figure smoking a pipe saying "Yes, I respect your opinion" (speaking to another stick figure).

Blog 7/12: Does using a crayon influence the writing?

I read Matt's crayon writing piece and I think it was actually pretty good. I think he was definitely influenced by the fact that he was using a crayon to write because he ended up drawing  picture in the end, which is the typical thing to do with a crayon. He seems to be just as expressive as he would when writing with a pen; possibly even more since h added a visual that very clearly summed up his point. I actually find that his argument is much stronger and clearer because of the fact he added a drawing.

Blog 4/12 "Speaking in Tongues" Questions

1.) p. 187 "These were genuine questions for people born in real cities..." What exactly is considered to be a real city? Does being from a real city make a difference in whether one approves of a flexibility in voice or not?

2.) All in all, does Zadie Smith feel that a flexible voice is a good thing or bad?

3.) p. 187 "... unless we are suggesting that one side of a person's genetics and cultural heritage cancels out or trumps the other." Does Smith believe this to be true? Does coming from a mixed cultural and ethnic background automatically make someone flexible in their voice?"

4.) By quoting Eliza Doolittle on p. 180 "What's to become of me? What's to become of me?", is Zadie Smith suggesting that with flexibility in voice comes the loss of sense of self?

5.) p. 181 "Professor Higgins has made his Eliza and awkward, in-between thing, neither flower girl nor lady, with one voice lost and another gained, at the steep price of everything she was and everything she knows." Is Smith implying that flexibility of voice can lead to forgetting where you came from and what you grew up in?

6.) p. 189 "Our Shakespeare sees always both sides of a thing, he is black and white, male and female - he is Everyman." So is Shakespeare's true voice a combination of many types or is it just that his true single voice can be morphed into many others?