A comparison occured to me: if life were a huge camping trip, I'd rarely leave my tent.
Whenever I go to Target I always walk down that cool aisle where all the miniature models of their tents are displayed. Have you ever seen them? There is something very alluring about those little tents. They make me want to shrink and live inside one of them.
I spent a lot of time making tents in our house when I was a kid.
I wish I liked camping, sometimes. It's not the dirt that troubles me, it's the sleeping outside (even in a tent). I've tried many times, and it just doesn't work for me. I love all the other aspects...being outdoors, outdoor cooking, hiking, just not the sleeping part.
Virgo, but of course. But I'm 9/20, so I have the Libra pull of balance in me (thank god) as well. Reinforcing that was being raised by a dead-solid Libra dad (10/11).
Hah hah, your struggles with the lantern are amusing ... I don't think I heard that you broke the lighter too.
Doing a write-up in the present tense is an interesting idea. I'm still catching up in my own journal of the trip (based on those notes you saw me taking) but I'm definitely treating it as all one piece. Maybe soon I'll try writing a journal entry in the present tense, to see what kinds of emphasis it invites.
Nice comparison. Indeed, I'm feeling an urge to go right back up there and camp for another week. It was great! But then, I'd be WAAAY behind on my writing ;)
I find the present tense harder to write in mechanically ... words tend to be longer, and sound more similar. It's harder to avoid that mealy-mouthed repetition of syllables that made most of my older stuff so cantakerous and jerky. Um. Yeah.
But the reward is a sense of immediacy. In my opinion, it lends a kind of suspense to the narrative because each moment seems like the _current_ moment.
But there's really no way around bad narrative, so my struggle goes on :)
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Tents
Date: 2002-08-28 05:51 am (UTC)A comparison occured to me: if life were a huge camping trip, I'd rarely leave my tent.
Whenever I go to Target I always walk down that cool aisle where all the miniature models of their tents are displayed. Have you ever seen them? There is something very alluring about those little tents. They make me want to shrink and live inside one of them.
I spent a lot of time making tents in our house when I was a kid.
Re: Tents
Date: 2002-08-28 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-08-28 08:49 am (UTC)hardest part of a trip log is indeed avoiding detailed lulls
a bane of mine
love the wrap up
very engaging
ensures i will be back for day two
"saw it written and i saw it say
a pink mooon is on it's way"
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Date: 2002-08-28 09:59 am (UTC)I wish I liked camping, sometimes. It's not the dirt that troubles me, it's the sleeping outside (even in a tent). I've tried many times, and it just doesn't work for me. I love all the other aspects...being outdoors, outdoor cooking, hiking, just not the sleeping part.
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Re: Tents
Date: 2002-08-28 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-08-28 05:12 pm (UTC)Doing a write-up in the present tense is an interesting idea. I'm still catching up in my own journal of the trip (based on those notes you saw me taking) but I'm definitely treating it as all one piece. Maybe soon I'll try writing a journal entry in the present tense, to see what kinds of emphasis it invites.
Re: Tents
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Date: 2002-08-28 09:53 pm (UTC)I'm actually amazed that this many people bothered to read the thing. It turned out longer than I expected.
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Date: 2002-08-28 10:00 pm (UTC)But the reward is a sense of immediacy. In my opinion, it lends a kind of suspense to the narrative because each moment seems like the _current_ moment.
But there's really no way around bad narrative, so my struggle goes on :)