Week 5: Scaachi Koul's Memoir

1. I think fluidity is something that can always be played with in writing as long as it makes sense to the story you're writing.  For example, in the reading Nothing But The Truth?, they mentioned a story by Lidia Yuknavitch, in which the story is written about a swimmer.  I thought it was interesting that the arc of that story didn't follow a linear path, and in fact, it made sense that it would go back and forth and in circles, like swimmers do.  In those terms I think that the fluidity would be a fun thing to play with.  As far as its affect on memoirs, I think it allows the writer more room to lose track of their thoughts during their story.  They can trail off onto an idea that popped in their head while they were writing about something else, and then come right back to the original topic with ease.
2. I actually don't think I have read any memoirs in my life, but I came upon one on buzzfeed's website that was pretty interesting.  https://www.buzzfeed.com/scaachikoul/looking-for-my-mother-at-the-bottom-of-a-pot?utm_term=.gg1bwQ4yZ#.mtlWdbjyQ  In this memoir, Scaachi Koul discusses her Indian mother's homecooking and how Koul herself could never match up to it.  She writes about her many attempts and remembers fondly the way her mother would cook and serve them in the past.  Every time Koul tried to match her cooking to her mother's her mother was always unwilling to give her secrets away, and only gave the vaguest of help.  She continued to compare that cooking with the idea of losing her mother.  Koul worried that one day her mother would pass and she would lose connection with her heritage or lose all those recipes she wants to hold onto and remember her by.
3. I think that this could transfer well into a blog, though the length of it may get cut down.  This original memoir was about an essay length paper.  I think that there also might be more thought and self-exploration put into it if it were a blog.  As the memoir stands right now, it's a lot of storytelling and memory she's sharing about her family life.