After receiving feedback on both of my PB's I thought a lot about detail and its relation to the writing process. I often find myself reading pieces of work written by successful writers and being in awe of the sheer detail they write about and describe. It often amazes me their ability to combine a simple detail that is necessary in their writing with their incredible grasp of the English language to truly expand the readers experience while including something medial to the text.
The youtube video that illustrates the writing process also inspired this thought log. I thought about how long it took to actually produce that video. All of the drawings combined with the editing must have been tedious. The raw footage of the drawings were also sped up throughout the video and had to be matched to the audio that made the video complete. All of these details were integral to the composition of the video. Although some of the drawings may have been unnecessary, each one enhanced the video.
In my next piece of writing, I will have that video in the back of my mind and think of all the details and tedious work it took to produce it. Including more detail on writing, or even magnifying your writing perspective is no where near as difficult as the video editing. The more detail included will easily enhance my own work as more detail enhances writing in general. What I mean by writing perspective is to focus writing on the most specific thing possible. For example, while I talked about the cartoon generator in PB1B, I was not nearly descriptive enough about what made the cartoon funny and why.
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