Read Patrick Madden's essay, "The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things". This essay can be found on our class webpage under SLCC documents. The excerpt comes from his book of nonfiction entitled Quotidiana.

After reading , respond to the prompts below in a thoughtful and well written response. Be sure to put your name and period in the title.

Assignment: In a paragraph (about 200 words) respond to either the author (what do you find interesting about his take on essays), or write a response on how you personally view his perspective. Refer to specific parts (passages or quotations) of the essay as you reflect and respond. or write a reflection as the post/article relates to you personally.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Elizabeth Simmons Period 5

While reading this blog I agreed with most of what she was saying. Writing to discover was different way of saying it. When you write, some how parts of you, like what you are thinking, and your personality comes out. Just writing to discover can be hard or stressful. This process could be scary, which ties into the other part I enjoyed. Writing can be the scariest thing I could do. Letting my thoughts and mind go free is hard. Going back and reading what you write can make you see things you tend to push back into the files in your mind. It can bring back memories you wanted to forget since they are sad, cruel or hard for you do cope with. Getting them out, can help with this. Can relieve that stress you are holding inside of you. Get your anger out on paper, better than holding it all balled up inside of you.
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  1. UnknownFebruary 24, 2014 at 5:01 PM

    that's so true! sometimes its like you weren't even aware you were sad, upset or even stressed until after you're done writing. some memories you write down can mean more to you than you realized before writing them.

    Georgie Jackson

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