Week 5: Fluidity

The topic for this blog post made me sit back and think on it for a few days. I've always been someone who rolled their eyes when celebrities and famous people write an autobiography or memoir because I think to myself, "their life is really that interesting to tell us about?" But then I remembered that whenever I tell a story, I always find myself dramatizing it. We all have stories to share, but if you have a quick wit and the ability to draw an audience in and make them want to keep reading more, you have a gift. So if I, a nobody from the Midwest, have a funny story to tell about the crazy lady at the grocery store, it doesn't really matter the truth of it, what matters is how I deliver it to get a chuckle out of my audience.

I do think Fluidity is important in a story because you don't want to get confused on the timeline in a story. A good writer should be able to keep the readers attention and not confuse them about who's talking, or whether or not the scene jumped a few years ahead or back. A chronological story isn't really important; if you can tell a great story by jumping through time and space and can keep the readers' attention, then go for it.

Since I've never read a memoir, I ventured online to find one. It was a short post titled "Love Recognizes No Barriers" in which a schoolteacher compares the love a young student has for her to the love her grandson has for her. She talks about how the children love everything, and that her grandson thinks everyone is their best friend. The writer goes on to say that maybe we can learn a lesson from them, and other children to "spread our love a little wider. Tell people we love them, or tell our friends that they are indeed our best friends." Since this memoir is a blog post, I think it would transfer well the opposite way. These small instances she learns from young children could become a memoir.