Task #1 for today: Move your writing into the Doc "Building Block of Memoir" (Why we Love Sports, Memory #1, Witness to Greatness Quote, Build Suspense-context/imagery of suspense,"What is sport?", Memory #2)
Task #2- Arrangement- Before committing to organization yet, let's think how you might want to sequence parts you have written already. You will have major revisions on the sentence level but first we will think big picture about its arrangement.
Let's review parts of the memoir to include in our own memoir.
The Pass by Ricardo Lockette
The Best Play I Ever Made
Why I Remain a Baseball Fan
Singular Focus (preparation for greatness)
Transitions from Lopate's essay
- I sometimes...
- The fact is I...
- I grew up in ...
- In a sense, the( insert favorite team/player)...
- It is sometimes posited as ....
- Part of being a ________ is accepting________
- I can still see in my mind's eye...(insert memory)
- The older I get, the more ________
- Of course being a ____fan is not all about ______
- Here we come to the most essential reason I cling to _________
- _______ has always attracted _______, a mixed blessing.
- With such a powerful inducement to keep me engaged, perhaps you understand_________
- Nor do I buy the idea that _______ must be like _______
- I have no idea how _____ compares with _________
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