Good morning. I find this time of day best for me to write at the moment as the house is quiet. Just me and the dogs up and about, husband and daughter still in bed! I suspect that will change when I'm back at work next week.
Anyway, I decided that for my daily writing exercise I would take prompts from past TMA questions. For those of you reading that may not be familiar with the Open University a TMA is a Tutored Marked Assignment that students complete throughout the duration of their various courses. So I startrd today with TMA01(2007) and my chosen prompt was a pair of shoes. I'm going to post what I wrote today, not because I'm proud of it or anything but until I get some feedback I'm not going to have a clue about my ability or progress. So...
For it to be a pair of shoes there must be two the same. Like twins I suppose, identical. Personalise so they aren't the same - a pair of black shoes, one with a black lace, one with a white lace. If a youngster did this no-one would bat an eyelid. They wouldn't look or comment, probably wouldn't even notice. However, imagine the city gent all suited and booted for work with odd laces in his shiney black shoes all freshly polished. Not right is it. I'm sure people
would notice and maybe nudge and whisper to each other on the tube. Do shoes get embarrased? Do they feel the wrongness of it? They should look the same and that means matching laces. Would it be worse or better, for the shoes, than a wrong pair, odd shoes being worn. Old analogue by a famous comedian, come actor tells us about the shame of going to a funeral in brown boots. There is an etiquette that should be adhered to when selecting which shoes to wear when. Now I'm getting frustrated because I can't remenber, ah yes, that was it, Holloway that was his name. Still can't remeber his christian name though. He also told us about Albert's family day out at the zoo. Unfortunately, Albert got eaten by the lion! Stanley, I knew it would come to me.
I tried not to alter in any way as I typed this out. I wrote it in one of my new notebooks earlier!
If anyone has any comments I'd be grateful.
Thanks for dropping by. See you soon.
Andrea
It’s been great..
14 years ago
Hello Wight Word! I want to know first, did you finish A215 or starting now? Im not sure.
ReplyDeleteAbout your exercise on shoes, for what it is (a writing storm that is, no editing), its very good. It sounds like a ...storm. You just wrote anything that comes to mind ,anything creative that is, regarding shoes. Shoes worn with different laces ,colours, not matching each other. You get a social aspect of ..shoes, when you write ''I'm sure people
would notice and maybe nudge and whisper to each other on the tube.'' But then you ask somewhat sarcastically (to me) ''Do shoes get embarrased?''
I think they are not embarrased, and some people do wear different shoes (but most of them reside in asylums, wonder why...). When in high school I wore different socks cause I was so late for the bus I wouldnt care (hence im known as the 'looney' one since back then!).
Then again, im not sure as I said, are you starting now with A215 or finish some short writing course? Where is this exercise from? the 'big red book' ? See you- Anna
Hi Andrea, I'm just starting A215 at the moment and trying to get my 49 year old brain around starting school. I live in North Devon but lived on the Island until less than three years ago (still missing it!), in Ryde and Bembridge. Hope you enjoy the course, actually, I hope I do as well!
ReplyDeleteI'm finding the freewrites difficult, not as exercises from the book but the seconf I have to look at a TMA. But I can see it sparks off lots of ideas - or it did, before I looked at the TMA booklet.