I Can't Think of a Clever Name so: Thlog Week 4

In today’s class we talked a lot about moves. At first, when Zack was talking about his weird surfer friend, I was like “Oh jeez. Zack has officially lost his mind (no offence Zack)… How do moves have to do with writing?” but now I feel like I get it. The connection I made in my head was with with Salinger’s writing “moves”. When I read The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s “moves” put me off a bit. Don’t get me wrong I appreciate that he was writing in a new and interesting way but it just confused me sometimes. I then went on to read Franny and Zooey and I had to read things over and over again because Salingers way of writing rattled my brain so much. I guess this relates to what we were talking about in class because those moves were very unique to Salinger and although I wasn’t a big fan, other people obviously really loved his moves! I may also be a little salty about the fact that The Catcher in the Rye  led to John Lennon being shot but its not really fair to blame an insane mans actions on poor J. D.

Anyways, even though I think the focus of the class discussion was more about being able to look at and analyze the moves of other writers, this talk also got me thinking about how I want to use moves in my own writing. I think it would be really cool to have so many moves unique to me that people who have read things of mine in the past would be able to blindly identify something I wrote. Maybe that’s a little bit of a reach for a goal but in my next paper I am definitely going to start thinking about the moves I am making as a writer. I think that moves make writing more fun in a lot of ways.