Blog 8

Long Essay 2 Plans, Revised:

After my meeting with Dr. Chandler yesterday, the course of my essay has changed, so my plans below are null and void...mostly. I still plan to move forward with #2, though, as the story I'm trying to tell is stronger. And as Dr. Chandler said, it's the world "where I live." Or something like that. I agree 110% with her. I have one million stories and lessons I could tell from that adventure.

My essay is going to shift away from telling the story of Annette, though it may touch upon it. The focus will be on how setting changes a person, and what hiking the Appalachian Trail allows a person to do or be–what it did for me.  We came up with so many ideas that I feel overwhelmed, so it may change again once I get back to working on it.


Long Essay 2 Plans:

I'd like to revise my draft of essay #2. It feels like a more cohesive story, and one that hopefully has good meaning. I started to feel a disconnect from essay #1, and am still not sure why I should tell that one–I'll revisit it in the future, perhaps as a short essay. There's some reason I chose to write it, but I think it needs more time to percolate.

To revise #2, I will first see what Dr. Chandler has to say at our meeting. Again, I'm not sure the reason I have for telling this story, either. I don't know if I was successful with segmentation, or with showing the audience, not telling them. My guess is I'll need to work on those skills, and transitions between scenes. I could be wrong, though.

I'll also talk to the friends I was with that day to see what their memory of the event is. I fact-checked myself against their blog entries, as well as my own from that day, but maybe they have some memories that they didn't write down.