The Writing Project -- October

Moore Hall, UCLA, October 21st, 2006

 

There was a smell of the writing project in the air this morning.  What did the writing project smell like?  Like coffee and toxic markers and brainstorming.   And if you wondered what the writing project sounded like, it sounded like the excitement of the Romans in the coliseum and voices questioning and pens scratching upon multicolored journals and silence so loud you could hear the workings of the organs.  And going further, what did the writing project look like?  The writing project looked like 5 x 4 and scattered piles of mysteries and biographies and poems and expository essays and letters and love stories and horror stories, beloved leaves strewn across the campus.  This is how the writing project smelled and looked and sounded, and this morning you could almost touch the writing project.