In this zoom meeting , you were discussing “My Instagram” in the beginning of the meeting and you stated, “it’s not one of my favorite essays” and I would have to agree. It confused me because I felt that it was all over the place. I found myself having trouble when I was getting my scene together. After reading “April-May-June” by Mirene Arsanios, I came to a better understanding as to what a scene should actually look like. Personally, when I look at a blank sheet of paper, I struggle with getting the first few words down but after that I can’t stop writing. It was the same situation when I was writing the scene because I was worried that it might seem boring. I realized that even if the scene was “boring”, the reader would still feel like they are living the situation because of the details. If I was present in the zoom meeting, my list of weird things would include:
- Salad Fingers (literally the most disturbing video that I ever watched)
- A photo of two people kissing with the caption “love my brother”
- The world record egg on Instagram
- Japan’s pigeon people
- A photo of mannequins laid out on a street
- Goblin sharks
- An underwater lake within the ocean
I would have asked a question on what you meant when you wanted us to also create a list that included a pattern. Did you mean a recurring topic?
Yes, exactly, Alexandria—I want to look for patterns in the list as in recurring topics.
For instance, in your list, I notice the following patterns (it was hard because your items are so seemingly random):
Plurals (more than one of the thing):
Salad Fingers
Two people kissing
Japan’s pigeon people
Mannequins
Goblin Sharks
SIngular items (one of the thing):
The world record egg
An underwater Lake
Animals:
“Pigeon” people
Goblin sharks
Creepy sounding things:
Goblin sharks
Mannequins on the street
Salad Fingers
Make sense? It’s hard!