Writing as a person in nature, their journal as they are out in the wild/nature on their own for 2 weeks. "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from his society"
Start with my description of nature verse Emersons and Thoreaus.
Then about what nature is. What it means. Its purpose and why it's here. How it affects life. How it affects a person mentally, physically, and spirtually. Also how it transfers into a society, life in a city and life in a smaller town so compare me in Arizona vs me in Telluride. I want to put my reader IN nature (maybe describe a special place I like) and then SHOW them the effect Nature has on me and, by extendion, on others.
Lauren,
ReplyDeleteGood post! This seems like a very productive, 'narrative' outline for the essay you'll be writing over the weekend. I get the sense that you want to (a la Thoreau) come up with a 'journal' of your own. I think this is an excellent idea! Why not actually set this up as a journal, each entry marking another step in your own journey (a day? Several days?) out into nature (is there a particular excursion you could write about, maybe a trip you took this past summer?). Go back and review Abbey's piece, and see if you couldn't mimic his structure (letting your thoughts ramble a bit, but using the journal structure--each entry, a new but related observation--to give the piece some overall organization). I look forward to reading a draft of this!