Travel Writing

[changeling67]

Lion Statue - Forbidden City, Beijing, China - September 2007

Today, I have to come away from Feminist Theory/Jane Eyre and write about my overseas excursion to China a few years ago.  I have already composed the travel piece an it is just over the word count - I just need to write a commentary as to how I wrote it.  I come a bit unstuck here.  It is mostly a stream on consciousness; I am writing to inform and convey images and ideas etc., but mostly the way I write in the document, would be the way I speak in real life i.e. more chatty, less formal etc.  I do wonder if journalists have to justify why they used a modifier here or that hyperbole there.

I am resigned to the fact that I have to explain everything that I do - part of me is a bit fed up that I have to consciously identify aspects of speech that are largely unconscious.

Link:  China photos at my Flickr account ---> http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnowbaby/sets/72157603959281001/

Comments

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

lovely photos! It's a bit like that quote from E B White about examining why something's funny
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”

It can make you self conscious when you have to explain how you write.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Joke/Frog - yes, that is exactly it. I suppose they are looking as to how you can improve your work, I just think it is pointless but tow the party line anyway.