One True Sentence: A Bear on a Chair
In today's seminar we learnt different writing techniques and how to add these into our essays to help build content. The technique I found was very interesting and by the end of it the sentence by which I created was heavily detailed with meaning and definition. Here were the instructions that we had to follow that enabled everyone to come out with a different varied and unique extended sentence;
- Look at the picture of the Bear; describe it in two sentences
- Describe where the Bear is sat
- Describe what the Bear is sat on
- Describe the bear
- Add a feeling
- Describe something that is about to happen
- Describe something that had previously happened
My final sentence was:
'After he was left there by his family, the Bear sat lifelessly on the garden chair. He was sat outside alone wondering how to get home.'
In the seminar we were also presented with a quote from Ernest Hemingley which said "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." This writing exercise opened my eyes to how to start writing an essay; start with one true sentence that is fact and then develop this further into something that has substance and context. Overall, I found the session very useful.
