Tuesday, March 1, 2011
A walk down Georgia Ave...
It was a great Friday afternoon, sun was shinning weather was great, cars blasting music, and a bunch of students walking towards campus passing Starbucks on the corner as usual. Even though the trees had no leaves and a smell of exhaust coming from the bus greeted us before we took our walk, It felt like a happy day! As we walked down Georgia Avenue and took in everything around us we could not help but to notice a man about 6'5 in a green shirt and jacket placed on one shoulder singing rap lyrics up and down the middle of the streets. Some people laughed, some just starred, and others just ignored him and went about their day. Walking down Georgia everything feels old. The buildings seem abandoned but are not. In front of Howard University's Hospital, the corner of Georgia Ave and V st is a man with a long grey braided beard selling scents and sculptures in front of Torrie@Wilson's a restaurant that has Christmas light hanging around the top of the roof. As we walk pass him he yells out to us "He loves you" and wishes us a great day. As we approach Georgia Ave and Florida the streets are much busier, older men are hanging at the corner of CVS pharmacy, a man is in front the corner of the boost mobile store selling water while go-go music plays loudly form a stereo attached to the store wall. People are going and coming from all directions via car, scooter, bike and feet as we all usually are when we or on Georgia Avenue but today was differnt because I actually noticed the environment instead of just being apart of it.
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YOU have a great ear and eye for observation. That makes your writing come alive. Again, you don't want to go overboard with description...give the reader just enough so they can feel like they are there. When you describe something to a friend when you are talking you don't give them every detail...just the things that really stand out. It is great to get all the detail in your notes...but when you get back from interview..write down what you remembering seeing, hearing, smelling without looking at your notes...those are the elements that left the most lasting impression on you and that's going to provide the best description for your readers.. Use you notes to fill in the blanks of you descriptions to give more texture.
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