Journal Entry 3

Katriel and Farrell contribute to our conversation about everyday writing because they talk about how scrapbooking is self narration and life review. We self narrate every day. Anything we post on social media, blog about, or journal about is self narration. You are talking about your life and the things happening inside of it. Scrapbooking is also used as a tool for memory. Remembering events and letting other people know what you want them to remember is a prime reason as to why we write.  I personally see scrapbooks as just a collage of pictures with occasional blurbs of writing. I have many scrapbook in my house that my mother made and none of them contain a great amount of writing. So are scrapbooks everyday writing?

I do not think scrapbooks are an example of everyday writing. They have some elements of what everyday writing is, however, I think that writing has to involve a decent amount of words. I'm not saying that everyday writing has to be paragraphs long, but there should be complete sentences and structure to it. The writing in my scrapbooks are mainly just dates and who was there when the pictures were taken. Another thing is, I don't think scrapbooking is all that common. Everyday writing is common things we do on a regular basis. My mom used to scrapbook like once a month maybe. I don't think that constitutes as everyday writing. I think zines are pieces of everyday writing. I picked up that a zine is a homemade magazine made by non professional writers. As we discussed in class, you don't have to be paid to be a writer. A magazine, in my opinion, is a grouping of stories and pictures designed for entertainment or information. Scrapbooks are different because they have pictures but don't have any stories. Although zines are probably not all that common, I think they posses more qualities of everyday writing than scrapbooks do.