Last Wednesday when we did the name/poem exercise I noticed something kind of cool. I started out with my poem being about a woman who loved to drive fast, but by forcing the poem into the structure forced me to completely change subjects. The name I chose was SUE, which meant that I had to find a word that had Q in it without any U. The only word I could think of was Iraq. All of a sudden my poem was about a woman running away from her problems (a loved one in Iraq that she hadn't heard from in a long time). I just thought that it was really cool that the form of the poem changed the meaning so much.
To completely change topics I've really noticed this week how much better everyone in our group has gotten at writing these stories. I was pretty impressed by each one that my group wrote this time. It's kind of fun to think back to the stories that we all wrote earlier in the semester and compare those to the ones that we did for this assignment. So that's kind of awesome.