Journal #4

After reading "(Meta)Physical Graffiti: "Getting Up" as Affective Writing Model" I believe that place and scene are a huge chunk of what makes everyday writing important.  When everyday writing is placed in appropriate places and scenes it will evoke emotions from it surrounding audiences and begin a conversation due to people reactions. This starts a conversation as Emily talked about in her journal and creates a chain reaction which I think ends with the production of more everyday writing. As The reading states “writing scenes are overwhelmingly populated by bodies: shocked, anger, delight, and feeling-full bodies”.  With this being said with ones writing in the correct place I think that this helps support and promote the everyday writer by reassuring them their ideas are being seen and heard. Scenes and places are also so important in everyday writing because a writer has exact reasons for placing their writing where they do and exact to receive a specific reaction. An example of this from the reading is when “ZEPPELIN ROCKS” is wrote across the venting wall that a New York campus constructed in order to get to students and faculty to release their emotions about the 9/11 tragedy that had just occurred.  The person who wrote this on the venting wall was doing it for a specific reason and to elicit a certain reaction from the scene around him. Whether it was to disrespect his peers and fellow citizens or to try and lighten this rough situation, he or she still knew it would elicit a reaction either way and that’s what makes this placement of everyday writing so powerful.

The role that place and scene play in circulation of ideas when it comes to everyday writing is that it starts a conservation as I spoke a little bit about before and allows individuals to bounce ideas off one another. An example of this was the whole topic of graffiti that was talked about in this reading. As Emily brought up before everyday writing just hits you before you even know what it is representing. It causes people to stop and take a second look to really look into the true meaning of the article and brainstorm ideas. With graffiti, artists speak through each other through their graffiti and different tagging that they do in places; it is a conversation they are having throughout an area. This is a real world example of how the placement of everyday can bring forth more ideas contributed by others. With the right placement of ones everyday writing, one is able to gain ideas that they would of not thought of beforehand.