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Wednesday, April 16, 2003 A short response written for my creative writing class.... A Response Long in Coming This readings response has been a long time in coming; I went to the Hopwood Undergraduate Awards Ceremony back in January to hear Rick Moody. The ceremony strengthened my determination to win a Hopwood—though thanks to the crashing computers in Angell Hall on the deadline that’s not going to happen—and listening to Moody was inspiring. I noticed some of his techniques and have since tried to incorporate some of them into my own writing. He often used repetition, as in a story that repeated a phrase about “boys who…” in almost every sentence, together creating a complete short story traveling from childhood to adulthood, and implied a great deal more than was ever explicitly said. He also drew ideas and style from the Bible, a technique I plan to use at some point soon, and paid attention to minute details that gave his scenes depth and life; I tend to struggle with details and have to work extra hard in order to find descriptions that don’t sound cliché. Going back to the kind of observations I mentioned in my response to the Jonis Agee reading, observations an actor makes, I noticed that Moody reads slowly so individual words have an impact, with the same lilt that many poets seem to prefer. His style, while decidedly untheatrical, was engaging—though it probably helped that he had a quiet, captive audience. At any rate, I enjoyed the reading and will continue playing with elements of his style. ^ Top | 8:46 AM | | | 
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