Showing posts with label how?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how?. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Literally literary

Perhaps that is so, literally literature, or so-called narrative journalism, or whatever you wish to categorize me as a content. (See Mark Kramer on Narrative Journalism Comes of Age)

Perhaps my words, or in your words, Saluna's written literature, is purely, literally literary journalism.

I have recently been assigned to feature another subjective to fill in this virtual space in order for you visiting readers to become content with whatever content I wish to feature.

What I have learned, from one of my classes, is that, maybe, I am already a Spy, a Literary Spy.

As you may have all know by now, my dream job is to become a Spy. However, I am still a Student. My current position is, to-study, not yet to-spy-on.

How I thought that I might be a Literary Spy is that, after reading the following points, I found that my class syllabus reader resembles my content a lot:

  1. Literary journalists immerse themselves in subjects’ worlds and in background research.
  2. Literary journalists work out implicit covenants about accuracy and candor with readers and with sources.
  3. Literary journalists write mostly about routine events.
  4. Literary journalists write in an “intimate voice,” informal, frank, human, and ironic.
  5. Style counts and tends to be plain and spare.
  6. Literary journalists write from a disengaged and mobile stance, from which they tell stories and also turn and address readers directly.
  7. Structure counts, mixing primary narrative with tales and digressions to amplify and reframe events.
  8. Literary journalists develop meaning by building upon the readers’ sequential reactions.

This was an adapted foreword, yet again by Mark Kramer, from the book Literary Journalism.

My class syllabus reader explained that a new journalist’s style of writing is, just like my content, “first-person subjective instead of the usual objectivity of traditional journalism,” where I am actually ”taking a more subjective than objective perspective” when providing content for this virtual space you are in.

Then again, this is just a may-be. I don’t know. All I know is that I am no-body at any given moment.

I only have a creator.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Show and tell

Look, and see.
Read, and get to know.
Be patient, and you’ll understand.
Make observations. Draw inferences.

So, I try it all. Being the story, and show the performance.

You can tell your own by showing the things you do.

So this is what I do: Writing letters.

_________

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: WRITER. EDITOR.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: JOURNALIST. PUBLIC RELATIONS SPECIALIST.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: DIRECTOR. PRODUCER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: CORRESPONDENT. PUBLISHER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: REPORTER. ANCHOR.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: REPRESENTATIVE. PRESENTER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: HOST. GUEST.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: RESEARCHER. FOUNDER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: OPERATOR. MANAGER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: CONSUMER. SUPPLIER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: BUYER. SELLER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: TIME. MONEY.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: HUMAN. RUNNER.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

To: BEING. ARTIST.

“Just tell me what to do, and I do it.”

_________

Now, all I have to do is determine what the story is about – How I live, and why living. Why living at all?

Currently, I am still stuck being a Student.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Landing among the stars

I don’t like putting my favorite stuff on static mode.
By stuff, I mean people, places, and things. Things we love that show as the light, like little stars at night.
I do like putting them into my movable-type, though. I just write.
_________

I do put out stuff I like. I just don’t like doing bureaucratic work, because I get lost within a single desk of unlimited Name-Calling data in this Digital day we live in now.
I like to move, preferably with my user.
_________
I always maintain un-attached so that them users remain un-reachable to me, and therefore, I am always meant to, subjected to, and have-to get them.
I have-to get things I like about them while these individual’s individualistic subjectivity remain unreachable to me.
As part of my work that has a job title of a Student, I prefer to do this unreachable goals at short-term intervals that are accumulates in time, therefore achieving a singular objectivity, a single context, and a strongest of the stronger stories out of the strong stories in the long run.
To reach those star-lit stories, I have got to work it all out, as nothing in life is for free.
How we work translates into value. Therefore, each movable-step forward translates into a decision-making variable. So what I work for must translate myself into a set of quantifiable values.
________
They keep telling you that the moon is too far and unreachable. Therefore, flying to the moon is un-doable.
I need you to make it simply undo-able, so that all of us, as subjected individuals, can all grow valuable, valued and abled.