I love the poetic tone of your blog. An undergrad minor in Creative Writing makes for a huge poetic appreciation, especially when it's done well. You really paint a clear narrative voice in this blog. Seems like we have a very wise, cool cat on our hands.
Your writing skills are clearly experienced. Your voice is unique and continues to attract my attention.
I enjoy the first-person narrative. I feel as if I have transformed into Zero. I see, hear, smell, taste and feel what Zero experiences. Love it! Bravo!
Thanks, all. Because these comments are posted below my initial test post, I'm not sure what you all have/have not read on this blog. I do plan to continue the story of Zero over the next seven weeks. If you haven't read "one," "two," or the author's posts, check them out.
I’m addressing you together this once because I’m not sure Dvosara’s Tumblr “Ask a question” box will handle my entire comment. (We need to have a way to comment on your work and see one another’s comments Dvosara, so figure that out.)
Also, you are both in the same boat.
I’ve never had fictional characters in the class before and now we’ve got a cat and an alien. You should learn from one another and we will most certainly learn from you. To make this work though, we are going to have to hear from you puppetmasters from time to time.
What are your intentions? What are you learning? What do you think is working and what is not?
A lot of the assignments will give you creative license to answer in your own voice or the characters. Zero gave me a bio of her author. Dvosara gave me a bio of his character. Both are fine, but Dvosara’s brings up the question – will you reveal yourself in some way to the audience and how?
Again, there is no right answer, just questions for your particular voice – and questions you will each answer, for this class anyway, with text.
My initial reaction to Dvosara is a question. Are you giving away too much already? The idea of someone accessing and assessing us only through the Internet is a great catalyst, but we figure this out in the first entry.
And why pictures of text instead of just text Zero? Do you want to extend the narrative through conversations with your audience like Dvosara or is yours a fixed story?
Will Dvosara have a narrative of his own unfolding in his world? Will there be more characters? Do you have a plan or do you only want to improvise through conversation?
I’m going to ask you both to plan in certain ways regardless. Next week I’m going to ask everyone for a resume or a sitemap/plan for your web presence. You can apply this to your characters by experimenting with your phrasing, your meta descriptions, and page headlines. If I look up Zero or Dvosara with Google, what text am I going to find? What is going to pull me in? Will a name as common as Zero be difficult for people to find/search?
Zero is a cat. His life is about to change.
We are web space aliens to one another, ask me a question.
Broke down at IOK-1
You are hashtagging a lot of words in your Twitter feed Dvosara. Is there a plan there? A lot of characters on Twitter are either run collectively, without much of a plan, by interns, or are derivative and not that creative. Have either of you found any campaigns or characters inspiring?
You don’t have to answer all of these questions now, but I will look for some answers in your assignments.
When we work on proposals and presentations a few weeks in, you already have your concept, but I want to hear how you would pitch this to someone who might fund a larger campaign.
And let this be an experiment throughout. Don’t be set in how you are going to execute this. If something is not working, try it another way.
And why pictures of text instead of just text Zero? -- I wanted Zero's posts to be distinct from those of his narrator. I wanted the entries to look and feel a certain way—to have a certain visual appeal and to stand out within the blog. I also like the idea that it's a graphic, and thus is not searchable text.
Although I'm saving the text as high quality JPGs, for some reason the text comes out slightly blurry when posted as a photo. Any suggestions?
Do you want to extend the narrative through conversations with your audience like Dvosara or is yours a fixed story? --That's a good question. Zero did respond to a question on Twitter. I felt he had to. I did not make this decision ahead of time, but it seems that Zero will have to respond to outside input, and I think he should. That will make his character more fun to interact with.
I DO want to give this project room to grow and change within the next seven weeks, and I do want to use my powers to post both as Zero and as The Narrator. I think that gives me more freedom. I am up for experimentation.
I love the poetic tone of your blog. An undergrad minor in Creative Writing makes for a huge poetic appreciation, especially when it's done well. You really paint a clear narrative voice in this blog. Seems like we have a very wise, cool cat on our hands.
ReplyDeleteYour writing skills are clearly experienced. Your voice is unique and continues to attract my attention.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the first-person narrative. I feel as if I have transformed into Zero. I see, hear, smell, taste and feel what Zero experiences. Love it! Bravo!
Excellent. Love everything about it. Will your blog be the continuing story of Zero? I'm in!
ReplyDeleteThanks, all. Because these comments are posted below my initial test post, I'm not sure what you all have/have not read on this blog. I do plan to continue the story of Zero over the next seven weeks. If you haven't read "one," "two," or the author's posts, check them out.
DeleteThanks!
--Zero's Narrator
Hi Zero, Hi Dvosara
ReplyDeleteI’m addressing you together this once because I’m not sure Dvosara’s Tumblr “Ask a question” box will handle my entire comment. (We need to have a way to comment on your work and see one another’s comments Dvosara, so figure that out.)
Also, you are both in the same boat.
I’ve never had fictional characters in the class before and now we’ve got a cat and an alien. You should learn from one another and we will most certainly learn from you. To make this work though, we are going to have to hear from you puppetmasters from time to time.
What are your intentions? What are you learning? What do you think is working and what is not?
A lot of the assignments will give you creative license to answer in your own voice or the characters. Zero gave me a bio of her author. Dvosara gave me a bio of his character. Both are fine, but Dvosara’s brings up the question – will you reveal yourself in some way to the audience and how?
Again, there is no right answer, just questions for your particular voice – and questions you will each answer, for this class anyway, with text.
My initial reaction to Dvosara is a question. Are you giving away too much already? The idea of someone accessing and assessing us only through the Internet is a great catalyst, but we figure this out in the first entry.
And why pictures of text instead of just text Zero? Do you want to extend the narrative through conversations with your audience like Dvosara or is yours a fixed story?
Will Dvosara have a narrative of his own unfolding in his world? Will there be more characters? Do you have a plan or do you only want to improvise through conversation?
I’m going to ask you both to plan in certain ways regardless. Next week I’m going to ask everyone for a resume or a sitemap/plan for your web presence. You can apply this to your characters by experimenting with your phrasing, your meta descriptions, and page headlines. If I look up Zero or Dvosara with Google, what text am I going to find? What is going to pull me in? Will a name as common as Zero be difficult for people to find/search?
Zero is a cat. His life is about to change.
We are web space aliens to one another, ask me a question.
Broke down at IOK-1
You are hashtagging a lot of words in your Twitter feed Dvosara. Is there a plan there? A lot of characters on Twitter are either run collectively, without much of a plan, by interns, or are derivative and not that creative. Have either of you found any campaigns or characters inspiring?
You don’t have to answer all of these questions now, but I will look for some answers in your assignments.
When we work on proposals and presentations a few weeks in, you already have your concept, but I want to hear how you would pitch this to someone who might fund a larger campaign.
And let this be an experiment throughout. Don’t be set in how you are going to execute this. If something is not working, try it another way.
Does that sound okay to both of you?
And why pictures of text instead of just text Zero?
ReplyDelete-- I wanted Zero's posts to be distinct from those of his narrator. I wanted the entries to look and feel a certain way—to have a certain visual appeal and to stand out within the blog. I also like the idea that it's a graphic, and thus is not searchable text.
Although I'm saving the text as high quality JPGs, for some reason the text comes out slightly blurry when posted as a photo. Any suggestions?
Do you want to extend the narrative through conversations with your audience like Dvosara or is yours a fixed story?
--That's a good question. Zero did respond to a question on Twitter. I felt he had to. I did not make this decision ahead of time, but it seems that Zero will have to respond to outside input, and I think he should. That will make his character more fun to interact with.
I DO want to give this project room to grow and change within the next seven weeks, and I do want to use my powers to post both as Zero and as The Narrator. I think that gives me more freedom. I am up for experimentation.
--Zero's Narrator >^..^<