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My real Instrument-A synopsis

My personal essay, My first real instrument is about when I first got my guitar, my feelings about, and what my desire was to do with it. My audience is the reader, it wasn't myself. What I wanted to do is make the reader understand how I felt about the guitar especially when I first got it, and I think that my response to the dialogue in the story helps in that it adds a nother dimension to my feelings. When I started to write the essay I was going either express how difficult it was to learn guitar or express my feelings about playing it and learning it for the first time. But when I started writing it, I saw that there was a gap between trying to write about how difficult it was to learn to play and writing about my disapointment with it. So I really decided to try and merge the two areas into one. To do that I had to make a stronger setting or intro and in the middle of writing the intro, I knew that in the end I was going to be sacrificing either of the two areas- them being either the difficulty in learning the guitar or my disapointment and feelings first recieving it- especially since I was writing in chronological order. But I decided to take the chance and try it and I ended up liking it in the end. I still think I couldve wrote more about the later part of learning to play the guitar but the thing is with that is that, it could get boring. I mean I might be able to write in interestingly but too complicated since I would have to be trying to express music in words- and would be even more difficult since at that time I was just learning how to play music.

Comments

S. Chandler said…
I agree that your use of dialog works to open up both what is inside you and what you were responding to. Anything else you might want to think about with respect to this essay? Any place that drags/repeats? I found myself feeling like the opening went on a little long.
Any information that might raise the stakes? I was wondering what exactly it was that you didn't
"want" about the acoustic? WHY didn't you want it? Was it just that you wanted something else - or was there another dynamic running through there?

And hey, how come you don't have link to my blog?
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