Posts Tagged ‘finding’
That Word
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 5, 2010
I distinctly remember writing a short paper during a freshman-year English class in college and failing to find the one word I really needed to describe the phenomenon I was trying to explain. It’s like it was always on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn’t articulate it. I thought in reading many [...]
Oh hi
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 27, 2010
Recently I’ve gotten the urge to rejuvenate this blog. I’m getting going with a big project that has something or other to do with scrap writing or patch writing… or collage… or compilation… or collecting — uh, basically taking stuff and putting it together, usually in some written form. So, maybe I can use this [...]
Scrapdate
Posted by: dkoupf on: October 24, 2009
Ugh, I’m becoming one of those bloggers who never updates her blog. My semester has been a bit crazy, and even at my laziest moments, I haven’t found my way over here in quite a while. So, I guess an update’s in order: The National Day on Writing was this past Tuesday, October 20. My [...]
Scraps as Writing
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 19, 2009
So the NCTE is sponsoring this National Day on Writing on October 20, and I’ve come across a lot of references to it lately in my reading of blogs, Twitter, and the WPA listserv. The main goal of this initiative seems to be to recognize and celebrate the writing people are doing these days and [...]
Nameless Letter
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 22, 2009
I came across a new scrap writing website about a month ago but was apparently too lazy to post about it, until now. It’s called Nameless Letter and it’s part public art project, part ongoing scavenger hunt. Like the wonderful blog People Reading, Nameless Letter represents reading as a communal activity, something for people to [...]
Random Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 23, 2009
Laurence Sterne on the circulation of a scrap (Yorick’s sermon): “Ill-fated sermon! Thou wast lost, after this recovery of thee, a second time, dropp’d thro’ an unsuspected fissure in thy master’s pocket, down into a treacherous and a tatter’d lining, — trod deep into the dirt by the left hind foot of his Rosinante, inhumanly [...]
Submitting
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 19, 2009
A person submits a scrap to a scrap writing website through either email or regular mail. These options indicate that scrap writing in the digital age operates through networks both old and new. The US Postal Service sustains what is probably the most successful scrap writing website, Post Secret, because all submissions must be mailed [...]
The Network
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 15, 2009
Person A writes a scrap and throws it away, loses it, or otherwise forgets about it. Person B finds the scrap, and either he/she or another person, C — perhaps a friend of B’s — decides to submit the scrap to a website like Found — either through email or the US Postal Service (sidenote: [...]
Scraps as Artifacts
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 9, 2009
I’ve been thinking about forging a scrap. In deciding what I’d have to do to make the “scrap” seem authentic (alter my handwriting? include a couple spelling and grammar errors? crumple, rip, or stain the piece of paper? use a ball-point pen or a gel pen? or a pencil?), I’d be investigating the rhetorical features [...]
Finding Scraps in Used Books
Posted by: dkoupf on: March 25, 2009
Scrap writing flourishes in between the yellowed, musty pages of used books. Today the Grad Student Organization in my department held a book/bake sale, and while thumbing through the pages of the used books for sale, I (and several others) found assorted treasures inside. Not just marginalia and funky inscriptions, but a joker card from [...]
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