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How Presentation Can Add Emotion - Lessons Learned From Spoken Word Poetry

As a prose writer, I've all the time enjoyed poetry from a distance. If person makes me read one, I'll read it and take it in stride, but as soon as they're gone, I'll put it away. I often just find that prose speaks so much more to me than poetry and so, stay away from poetry as often as I can. However, this weekend I went to a Poetry Slam which has started to convert my tune.

For the uninitiated, a Poetry Slam is a competition of spoken word poetry. Google Def Jam Poetry and you'll get an occasion to see some of the best in the enterprise at work. While I didn't see anything quite to that caliber, many of the contentious poets were extremely talented and opened my eyes to how I could bring poetic techniques into my own writing.

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The winner of the Slam struck a chord with me as I verily enjoyed the way he used the flow of his work to feature his emotion. I asked myself, how could we extend this to prose writing? A lot of his emotion is derived from his delivery. How do you convey a raised voice, an intense thought, faster pace, when you aren't in control, when person is reading your words on paper?

How Presentation Can Add Emotion - Lessons Learned From Spoken Word Poetry

First, be willing to play with font. Italics can be used for more than just book titles, and caps lock, while annoying on forums, can be effective when rationed. For instance, in a modern piece I've written, I attempt to feature my intense thoughts by utilizing italics. "I could just kiss you, I thought". In a similar sense, caps lock can be used to feature a louder delivery, seen when I write "Attempting to win her attention, I said 'Dan Brown's a great author.' Failing to get her attention, I try again. 'Dan Brown'S A Great Author.' I shouted, possibly a itsybitsy louder than I'd intended."

Suddenly, the presentation of your writing is doing a itsybitsy more than simply conveying the words to your reader, but also giving a feeling for what's being described. A great example of this is in John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, in which all things said by Owen Meany is in full caps.

Going beyond straightforward font tricks, sentence buildings can do wonders to convey the feeling of the piece and help replicate a lot of the emotion seen in spoken word poems. Shorter sentences slow the writing, making it choppier but placing a greater focus on the private words. Longer sentences can speed things up as you find no hurdles in your reading, and placing a greater focus on the bigger picture.

Taking it even further, paragraph buildings can do the same thing as sentence structure, only on a larger scale. More regular paragraph breaks can cause the writing to appear more staggered and slow the reader's intake of all things you've said. Longer paragraphs have the reverse effect, burying the reader in an uninterrupted wave of text which they can suck up quickly.

Unfortunately, we don't all the time have the occasion to read our pieces aloud to others. However, by utilizing these techniques, I believe you can capture some of the magic and emotion of spoken word by presenting your writing in a unique manner.

How Presentation Can Add Emotion - Lessons Learned From Spoken Word Poetry

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On Reading John Irvings's "A Prayer For Owen Meaney"

I started reading John Irving's books a long time ago. I was deLighted by the way his plots tie up - no loose end left untied when the story closes. The first I read was 'Hotel New Hampshire', a strange, rambling story about a strange rambling family. Loving that, I followed it with 'The World according to Garp', and that began my desire to read them all. And I have. As a new book comes out I buy it (in paperback - I'm not made of money!) and find myself some selected time to read it. Not all are great, but each is a joy to read.

'A Prayer for Owen Meaney' is, for me, the excellent one. I guess that, before I dive into explaining why, I should probably construe my context, since this book is about Faith in God and predestination. I am an atheist, confirmed and convinced. I do not recognise the need for religion, nor the existence of a suspect for having it. So I am not biased towards the underlying thesis of this book at all.

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The story is of Johnny Wainwright and Owen Meaney, friends from different sides of the tracks. Johnny, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and Owen, the son of a stonemason, whose voice has somehow been damaged and who seems to scream rather than talk, are lifelong friends. We see them grow up together, with Johnny's family using their affect to help Owen, a clever and odd boy, to get a decent education. His scholarship to the private school attended by his friend is supported by the Wainwright family, his uniform purchased and converyance arranged, so he can go to school with John.

On Reading John Irvings's "A Prayer For Owen Meaney"

The story is also about John's mother and how Owen brings about her death in a freak accident, and their subsequent search to try to identify and track down John's father, whom his mother never named. It is funny and touching and very much tied to the America of the Fifties and Sixties. It is a lovely comprehension into small town New England society, and into ordinary people's reaction to the Vietnam War.

Some of the comedy is contributed by the way in which John's extended family react to Owen - and some of the tragedy. John's cousins live out in the country and on a visit to their home Owen is subjected to ludicrous bullying by the cousins - though he if often bullied, being Miniature and odd. His association with Hester as an adult is of such pathos that, even as it makes me laugh, it makes me weep.

Irving is, as I have mentioned, a plotter supreme. Nothing here does not link with something else. No line, no paragraph can be missed or skipped over, because if it is you will lose something absolutely important. Throughout the story the two boys, and then later, the two young men effect a ritual of playing basketball - well, not the whole game, just the two of them, with John boosting Owen, who has never grown tall, so he can score basket upon basket in quick succession. They time themselves, and the book comes back to the action again and again. And you wonder why at the time.

Owen believes that he has been born for a Purpose, and his mother claims that he was the effect of a virgin birth. His religious beliefs make him determined that he knows the time and date of his own death, and that he will not make old bones. Before he leaves to serve in the army while the Vietnam War he makes determined that Johnny will not be able to go. How this happens I will not uncover, but suffice it to say, his father's profession is the key to it.

And he does die young, having fulfilled his Purpose. This death leads John, who is the 'I' in this first man novel, to remain a Christian throughout his life, even after he has fled his native United States and become a Canadian. He claims at the starting of the novel that the suspect he is a practising Christian is because of Own Meaney's life, and then demonstrates why.

The book is full of Miniature cameos of habitancy who come into their lives, and is particularly loving about John's mother and her husband (a trainer of Owen and John, but not John's father). The strange workings of New England community are looked at and laughed at and John's grandmother in single is a lovely portrait of upper class North American society. We are made to laugh at the rivalries between small town preachers, and non-denominational church groups, and their stupidity and false pride.

And there is the armadillo and the football cards. But if you want to know about them you will need to buy the book. It is filled with beautifully-drawn characters, humour, pathos, sex - yes, there's some of that too. It laughs at and with the kinds of habitancy who lived in New England long before the arrival of the Internet, though it is very funny about Johnny's grandmother's penchant for television and her love of and devotion to her servant.

I heartily propose this book to anyone. I have lent it to teenagers, colleagues, family and friends. Actually, I don't know where it is at the moment. It is my second copy. I may have to buy a third.

On Reading John Irvings's "A Prayer For Owen Meaney"

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Literary Talent - John Irving - Author Biographies

It has been said that John Irving often uses the literary technique of a story within a story and he uses it masterfully. A few his novels have a character who is a writer. John Irving is thought about one of the best novelists in contemporary literature. He is a devotee storyteller and comic genius of our age.

John Irving was born John Wallace Blunt, Jr., on March 2, 1942, in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was serving as an airman stationed in the Pacific. John never did meet his father.

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John's parents were divorced when he was only two years old. When his mother married Colin Irving in 1948, Colin adopted John. His mother changed his name to John Winslow Irving. Winslow was her maiden name.

Literary Talent - John Irving - Author Biographies

John lived with his grandmother, in a large old house, until he was six years old when his mother remarried. When he was growing up, he was a moody and aloof child and that house provided many places where he could get off by himself. He said that no adult would talk to him about his father. So, in his mind, he demonized his father.

John says that it was when he was approximately 40 years old and in the process of a disunion from his first wife, that his mother gave him a packet of letters that his father had written in 1943. This is when he found out that his dad had wanted taste with him. By this time his father had already died.

John had his first novel, 'Setting Free the Bees,' published when he was only 26 years old. In 1972, after his second novel was published, he was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the University of Iowa. While there John received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

It was in 1976 that John Moved to Massachusetts to come to be Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He served as Writer-in-Residence at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

It wasn't until 1978, when 'The World agreeing to Garp,' was published, that John Irving was catapulted onto the 'Best Seller' realm. All his books since then have been best sellers. His later works have been compared to the work of Charles Dickens.

John had been active in wrestling while he was growing up and in college. In the 1980s, he coached wresting at prep schools all while he prolonged his writing.

In 1999, John wrote the screenplay for his novel, 'Cider House Rules,' and finally won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Since then he has prolonged to adapt his works into request for retrial pictures.

John is known for is strong opinions and is anti censorship. John says, "If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one. If you feel so strongly about citizen having abortions, don't have one. But, we are a country that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amok."

In 1987, John Irving John married his literary agent, Janet Turnbull. They live in Toronto and Southern Vermont. John has two sons.

Books by John Irving:

Novels:
Setting Free the Bees (1968)
The Water-Method Man (1972)
The 154-Pound Marriage (1974)
The World agreeing to Garp (1974)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1981)
The Cider House Rules (1985)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1988)
A Son of the Circus (1994)
A Widow for One Year (1998)
The Fourth Hand (2001)
Until I Find You (2005)
Last Night in Twisted River (2009)

Omnibus:
3 by Irving (1980)
Three faultless Novels (1995)

Collections:
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993)

Picture Books:
A Sound Like person Trying Not to Make a Sound (2004)

Non Fiction:
The Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir (1996)
My Movie Business: A Memoir (1999)

Literary Talent - John Irving - Author Biographies

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Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy.


This is undoubtedly the best book I have ever read. The plot is so complicated and intriguing that when you reach the end, and you finally see how John Irving ties together all of the intricate details, you are left dumbstruck. Despite the many carefully crafted foreshadowing clues, it's impossible to figure this one out until the end. If you've loved other books by Irving, you'll find the same quirky characters, rich symbolism, and literary craft.
Un..forget..able! 

The scene of doltish the doltish headmaster driving a trashed VW down the school's marble staircase is a marvelous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose." When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't cancel the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.