Interview Profile Editing Publishing

In editing and publishing class we interviewed each other with the intention to use our answers to help write a 'personal profile.'

I like the things the person I interviewed said and thought 'I feel energetic and excited' during the interview.

"What stories or issues you feel your generation need to bring out and make the public aware?" is the only question the instructor said we 'needed' to ask each other.

My three person group (we were the only three person group, I think) discussed this question a little bit after our interviews.

Someone talked about how they felt dislike for the word 'generation.' There was talk about this.

Some notable things to me from group talk:

"I feel aversion to the word 'generation' or 'generation defining' writing. It seems like there will always be people that feel misrepresented by their 'generation'. For example, it is a 'stereotype' that Irish people have loved getting drunk, going to pubs, eating potatoes, throughout history. But it seems likely, even obvious, that many Irish people didn't like those things. Feel like I can only say 'generation' with some degree of sarcasm."

"Some things that seem 'important' are related to the internet and digital stuff. In terms of communication, I think its making it 'difficult' to interact in 'authentic' ways. People, including me, explore things that 'interest' them using computers, video games, music, or whatever media and get deep into this world of things that 'interests' them, but they are so deep in their 'own world' it becomes difficult to experience these things with others. There seems to be a real problem with loneliness in our generation. But I also think that's probably always been a problem to every generation."

"I also don't think this is just digital stuff, the same problems could be applied to sports or something. Look at how much information is available now regarding sports. Seems people are confused about all the information available to them. Maybe that relates to the internet. I don't know."

There were other things said re loneliness that also seemed notable that I can't remember currently.

Here are some books I think either the author or other people have said 'define my generation' that interest me currently:

Person, by Sam Pink

Richard Yates, by Tao Lin

Best Behavior, by Noah Cicero

Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee, by Megan Boyle

Fiction Seminar First Day

When we introduced ourselves at the beginning of class we said a tid-bit re names, hometown, and what we want to do with our writing.

The first three people seemed to ignore saying the part about what they wanted to do with their writing, and it seemed it might continue this way around the room. The instructor noticed and changed this. The first person said 'I want to improve my writing.'

I said 'improve my writing.' Then thought, 'I want to say "That's probably inaccurate."'

What do you want to do with writing.

Teacher asked this after writing the 'major periods of literature' on the board later.
Asked us to relate it to one of the 'major periods of literature' or what one we relate to most.

I wrote really fast and 'sloppily'. Noticed the people on both sides of me had written about 3x as much in neat print. We were probably only given ~10 mins at the end of class. Could have been anywhere from 10 mins to 1 hour. ~22% likely it was an hour. ~50%-70% it was longer than an hour. I don't know.

When we were asked to turn them in, I wrote a note apologizing for the

Felt weird writing on paper instead of computer. Editing and deleting seems difficult on paper. Thought, 'seems funny that I'm having trouble writing down a goal when i can't edit and change it.'

Instructor recomended we could 'think of ourselves as a character, maybe write in third person.' seemed to also say  'this is very informal, just do it quickly.' Unsure if she actually said that. Probably didn't.

I wrote in third person. I wrote stuff. Of the things on the board, I felt I had the most 'attraction' towards 'existentialism', followed by 'surrealism' 'realism' and 'post-modernism.' While writing, I based my view of these things on the small discussion we had in class about them and, to a lesser degree, my previous knowledge/was attracted to things artists I like have been associated with.

I have often felt some kind of aversion to answering the question 'what do I want to do with my writing.'

Feel aversion to the word 'want.'

Currently feeling aversion to the word 'aversion.'

'I want to have a better response to this question,' seems almost sarcastic.

I will probably think about this question more in the future a lot while writing.

Been feeling attracted towards the word 'honesty' like a girl I like that doesn't like me or something.