Adjectives Nouns

submitting story to snap judgement public radio as a potential medium - medium for storytelling, medium for advertising a book, condensing a book into a story, etc. making pieces for a portfolio, submitting them to different forums, mediums, places, shows, etc.

snap judgement episode - the stranger story about a man whose father was really quiet, hid behind a wall of silence not necessarily that specifically - but turning a human relationship into a story and what kind of things embody that relationship thinking of that in the same terms as a trip or traveling to a city how do you take an experience with a city or with a trip, and really distill that into its essence, into a story that embodies what you experienced? sometimes its not necessarily about taking an entire relationship or an entire trip, and putting the whole thing into a story, but rather a single allegory, or a single experience, or a single occurrence, a single thing that happened that really sums up the whole trip/relationship well

history, turning history into stories - a lot of parallels there how do you pick out the details that best represent what you're talking about and what you're trying to communicate about that thing it's not about giving a big information dump; rather, you are trying to use history to communicate a point

finally, thinking about criticism: how a critic writes about movies or food how sometimes a writer or a storyteller needs to include lots of details about a specific interaction a writer or a storyteller wants to be more poetic, and describe things using more vivid language, more adjectives than verbs or nouns and knowing WHEN to trade off between those two

I feel like my strength is in using adjectives, using metaphors, describing things, not describing events or conversations or using verbs and nouns

that's definitely something that I can think about how to do I feel like that's my primary weakness

speech topic like "13 days" - the best part of my speech will be the part describing the ships leaving the dock like spiders in the night images like that - images that come naturally not the pithy descriptions of activity or well-pharsed transcriptions of events or action

that's what Stephenson does, that's what Whitehead does in a lot of Zone 1 they take these sequences of events that would otherwise be rather dull or straightforward or unexciting on their own, and they embellish them with other activities, other descriptions, other information, so as to make the entire activity description, the noun description, the verb description, more interesting

because the whole point of the adjective way of speaking is to give your readership different verbiage or different conceptual lego bricks with which to build the house that is the image you're trying to create so if you describe ships like dark spiders in a bedroom at night, you're suddenly thinking about those ships in a different way rather than saying, "the ships left the port," you're saying, "here's how the ships left the port" here's how I want you to think about the ships leaving the port

or, if you describe a zombie sinking their teeth into your arm, you're not just saying, the zombie sank its teeth into my arm you're saying, here's how i want you to picture this happening, by giving very detailed descriptions, and by using this adjective way of describing