7-7:10pm: Introductions, current work and ideas…
7:10-7:35pm: Irby…. What’s your direction? What outside source did you find? Anybody go on YouTube and see one of her interviews?
7:35-7:50: Your writings about YOU… your stories. They are yours, and you should look further into them, for a number of reasons. When someone asks for a story from your life, where’s the first place you go? What’s the first moment you think of?
7:50-8pm: Close…. What’s on your page for the night?
For me: KEEP THE WRITING PERSONAL. STOP THINKING SO MUCH.
ASSIGNMENT: Irby essay.
That’s it. I want all your focus to be on this paper. My hope is that you will make it yours. While still keeping it professional, you will ensure it’s personal and that you own your writing and the ideas you convey. The more you focus on structure and that it’s an assignment, the more harm you’re doing to your paragraphs. Write from your ides, your opinion… the support you provide is in the strength of your written voice, demonstrating that not only you read her work, but have a formed and framed position on it.
ENJOY YOUR WRITING.
Hii everyone
Hi Claudia!!!
Hello Class
Good Evening.
Hello everyone,
When someone asks me about a story in my life I could say so many of them but the best one is when I first had my first children. I learn so many things that I didn’t know what was love at first sight. My children mean everything to me and they grow up so fast that I wish they could stay small forever. My mom will tell me that when I had a kid I will pay for everything I did when I was small and it is true because so times my children could be a pain in the ass lol and my mom said I was like that when I was small too.
evening!
Hey Julia… how’s it goin??
Not bad!
Good Evening! I am currently working on my essay and writing techniques. I feel I have a whole lot to learn in the way I write and I am going to be honest, I am having fun doing so. I do wish I had more time to work on it but I have to work with what I got for now.
Hi Consuelo!!!!! How are you???
Doing well thank you! How are you?
I’m great!!
Hola guys!!
HOLA!!!!
SO to start this off I can not lie but I am struggling with the current paper we are writing.
Why?
Well my mind is in a hundred different place right now. 25 years is a long time to have to try and split things and figure out how to do it on my own suddenly. So yeah I keep trying to write but every time I do my goes back to trying to figure out what my next steps are.
Hi guys!
What’s up guys hope everyone finds themselves with a great evening
Currently, I have been working on my Irby essay and my financial accounting project. I am a fan of the cold weather and excited about the rain coming soon!
Hello everyone, current work is still the Irby paper. I also got a political science exam which is pretty weird because it’s a physical exam that I have to mail out. So I’m a little busy with school but going slow and steady. Just working on going at a safe pace with work so I don’t stress out.
Hello everyone, I just had my birthday this weekend so I did a lot of hanging out with the family. Just finished and performed a speech for my communications class yesterday so now all my attention has been on the Irby essay.
Hi Duncan.
Happy late birthday! Hope you had fun
Currently working on my Irby essay. Had a study session with my friend and got to get some additional ideas down. I have also been applying to many jobs, so a lot of interviews have been going on last couple days. It’s excitinggg
Irby is an excellent writer and I find she holds it all together really interestingly. She has a funny sense of humor that seems to tie all her experiences into one book that is a mix of everything really. All colors and shapes, experiences and vibrations, realization and meaning.
If you’re stuck on the Irby paper, YOUR Irby paper… just think, what do you want to say?
Id like to somehow communicate to the level of complexities i feel she is writing at.
It’s an opinion you’re supporting… what do you want to say?
I want to say she writes like no one Ive ever read before and she is almost relentlessly taking the reader along with her. In a good way.
Explain more… examples.
Hi Class! Hope you are all as excited as I am about this Irby essay!
Tell us about your paper.
I have been working on my essay on Irby making sure it all fits and makes sense.
Tell us more about it.
Some starting points…. Style, Vice, Education, IDENTITY…. Comfort.
Currently working on my wine fermentation, and my wine making plan getting excited on how it will turn out!
I am currently working on my Irby essay still. I have been so busy with my midterm from the class pols that I haven’t finished it.
So I went on youtube and found her virtual happy hour zoom and omg it is the funniest ever. Her explanation of her partner is amazing! I fucking love her!
I have been working on my German, probably will go there.
Irby wants us to be comfortable with ourselves. Write that.
Good evening everyone! my current work is also my Irby paper but I’ve also been trying to relearn some Microsoft excel formulas so I can make some spread sheets to keep track of my business earnings
So, I have not started essay but I have read thoroughly and Irby really just makes me feel inspired
Irby is in love with the idea for FREEDOM. Write that….
My direction with Irby still, is talking about the connection and relationship with her and her writing. Actually, as far as watching her on youtube, a new video came out recently on Soul Pancake (It’s a pretty popular channel) with Samantha Irby, it was neat to watch and it was also pretty funny. It was called “What Does Your Bookshelf Say About You?”.
Nice.
The direction I am taking for my irby essay is all over the place and still trying to fix it to make sense. I have been watching her interviews on youtube to get a better understanding of why she writes the way she does as well as reading more bits of her writing to better understand.
As a reader, I was relieved reading Irby. Everything was human, everything was passion, there was vivacity in the vulnerability.
Hi everyone! The direction I am going with Irby’s essay is the way we are similar, like we don’t care about people’s opinion of us.
EXAMPLES?
The way she explains herself about being a woman on the bigger side and she is very happy the way she is.
IDENTITY. Yes!!!!
Irby is the best of best! I love the way she is. She makes me feel good about my self. Yes and I love her youtube videos!
Any in particular that speak to you? Do any of the videos help support your paper’s idea?
As I get older, I don’t have to de-code messages. Irby is honest and immediate with her communication. What do you think? Can you use that idea in your writing?
She is very open and learning from her honesty, we can use this idea in our writing by making this essay our own and allowing ourselves to take risks in what we normally would not write.
with my paper i am going with the relationship between Irby and I route. while reading her stories, there were several essays that really stood out to me because i felt like i went through some of those same things. and im talking about how those points in my life made me who i am today and comparing that to how i see the kind of person it made Irby to be.
My direction is going more towards her INTENT behind her writing. What I believe she is trying to to get us to understand and take away from everything she shares with her readers.
PERFECT. I love this. What is her intent? (Without spoiling, lol…)
Thank you! well, without spoiling lol, I think her intent is to get her readers to have a different perspective after finishing her book. To be okay with whatever we are too ashamed to speak out loud about. She’s sort of like sacrificing herself, by putting her business out there, even the cringe worthy ones, and saying “Hey I do this too, whatever who cares!!” making it possible for others to find acceptance with whatever we are embarrassed about. Creating normality to whatever is socially considered “wrong” or “weird”.
Can’t wait to read your longer writing on her!
Im going in the direction of ” Irby defines human” Living in our current world people portray a lifestyle that may not be realistic, such as influencers, celebs ect.. She lays out her raw emotion and uncensored life. She shows me that shes human, who makes mistakes, goes through up and downs, and suffering from anxiety.
Three words, a thesis. Beautiful. STRONG…. WRITE IT!!!!
Thank you for the reassurance!
Cheers!! Enjoy!
Connect your points and argument to specific parts in the book, essays that spoke to you and support your idea. I’m not saying summarize, but I am suggesting you demonstrate a certain level of expertise and special understanding of Irby’s pages.
I think I am going to go with something like ‘different but same’ in the sense that, I do not relate nor empathize with a lot of her stories in her writing, but in the end, I think we both have a confidence and enjoyment for life.
Dude…. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love this. Great idea here, Julia. Can’t wait to read it!!!! 🙂
Whatever you’re writing, WANT to write it. I know this sounds like an instructor speaking, but it’s not. It’s a human suggesting a very human approach. Want to write better??? Write about sh/t you want to write. Why this isn’t taught more, I don’t know. But… it works.
Love this
Cheers! Enjoy…
this is genius! I love it!
Not genius at all. Just human. <3
Just think to yourself, “What do I want to say?”
As I go through a major transition, the most amazing part of it is how close it has made my kids to me. Not that we weren’t close before, because we were. But this is different they want to learn about me not just tell me about them selves. And that put a smile on the face and makes a man extremely happy.
I’m sure I have a strong introduction going now, thanks Mikey!
I have ran out of things in life to write about… Nothing new is happening in my life. Literally, Nothing. My daily routine is always the same and it’s boring, computer computer, and computer. My parent is coming back from a business trip tomorrow, from Taiwan. I’m so exited, it’s been 3 months since I saw him last time!
Change the routine. Stop the repetition where you can.
I hope that something new can come to me!
How do you write YOU? When do you write you. Not as simple and framed as so many would say… but, we can always write self to better know and understand, and APPRECIATE self. The most normal and “boring” moments can disclose more truth than those you would call “profound”.
The story of my life…. It all started when I was in kindergarden, I was the tallest in my class and to this day I can smell the perfume Mrs.Douglas had on. Our class was the funnest.
Love the use of “funnest”… puts us in the head of a kindergarten narrator!!
Talk to me, y’all…. The next creative assignment will ask for SELF, on the page…
Talking to you, Consuelo. lol
I wouldn’t say my life is all too interesting to write or really talk about, but if someone asked for my story, I’d start with where I grew up as a kid which is Paradise, California. The town unfortunately caught on fire and got destroyed. I’d probably then talk about my move to Sonoma County. After that, I’d most likely just talk about my job history and school, then that’d be about it.
The reader decides how “interesting” a story is, not the writer.
That’s true, and if it ever really comes to someone wanting to hear my story, I’ll keep it simple and make it interesting.
When someone asks me about a story of my life.. I always tell them about the time that I went skydiving and that is what made me more outgoing and not being afraid of being myself.