Read Like a Writer          

 

Raymond Carver: from "Fires," in Anderson p.413.

Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook," at http://www.penusa.org/sites/default/files/didion.pdf.

Marion Winik, "Sixteen Picture of my Father", at http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/sixteen-pictures-of-my-father/Content?oid=873999 

David Sedaris, "The Youth in Asia," at http://www.esquire.com/features/three-stories-sedaris-0300; there are two other stories included at this link from Sedaris which are also wonderful.

Your goal here is to see a realm of possibilities for your own work, not literary analysis. These pieces are worthy of analysis, but what can you take away from them as a writer? Forget (only for a moment) what you have learned in your literature class about symbolism and meaning. Look at the surface here: right at the surface.

Write a brief post in which you examine the structure of these four essays -- how they are shaped, the order material is presented, the 'rules' they follow and break. You might complete this task by brefly describing the structure of each piece, as you see it, and then comparing them to each other.

 

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