Lamott ties something as simple as school lunches into writing. Everyone had school lunches and using it as a writing start is an intelligent way to communicate. She writes with such common analogies, but really delves into the deeper meaning when relating them to writing. In writing these things, she finds truth. When first experimenting with photography, I would take the same picture over and over again. The things in the frame would be the same, but I would try it with different angles and distances.
Lamott describes writing a story like the slow forming of a Polaroid. I hope this is what my 30-day story will turn out to be. I see it forming, but then other components surface and the story may change, or become truer.
Hurn and Jay: Selecting a Subject
First of all, I loved their definition of the destination of photography: "to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the result to others." Free from passion, but correct.
They pose questions that help to find a subject- something I definitely think will be useful in my quest for stories. Narrowing stories and relating them to something else, such as a moral has always been a struggle of mine. Hurn and Jay point out the struggle is universal. I don’t know if I agree with their claim that it’s necessary to incorporate photography into everything done every second of the day. Sometimes I enjoy not thinking about it, and I do not believe one has to be thinking of stimulating visuals all the time to be good.
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