Materialities of Writing

1.  When given the task to write with crayons, I at first thought It was going to be a simple grade school assignment due to the relation I had made between crayons and my child hood.  When going about finishing the assignment, I realized what more effort had to be put into writing the short response.  Normally jotting down a few sentences would take merely minutes with a pen or pencil, but with crayon, you have to select which words you want to use taking up the least room on the paper provided in order to get your entire point across with the room provided.  After a while my hand started to cramp up leaving me focusing more on that issue then what else to write next, forcing me to take much longer than anticipated to finish the task.

2.  For most of the pages both me, and the people in my group commented on, we all basically jumped to the same accusations.  All picking number two, we all stated the best way to describe that paper was to be well written and executed.  The individual who wrote it was able to convey and interoperate all messages within Dickenson's poem, but accomplish getting their entire point down on the little space provided on the paper.

3.  I feel as if a culture composed entirely of crayons and only that, would be a physically and mentally strain for it's individuals.  I feel as if most people would not have the time to write with such large words using a less profound diction to convey their messages, or what ever it is they're writing.  Things would be very difficult as well both on they eyes and on the hands, both to read and write due to the soft texture of the crayon leading it to wear out and break so often.

4.  Based on using crayon's for the assignment the other night, I would much rather look into a form of free writing.  As I prefer pen over pencil, and crayon, I find myself to write down what comes to mind, rather writing out any ideas first and building around that.   Writing in free form allows me to use my writing potential to it's fullest without any stops or pauses in-between because when I usually sit down to accomplish something, I tend to not get up, or become distracted until that task is finished