Blog #8: 1 Stranger Project

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

The 100 Strangers Project (http://www.100strangers.com/) has one simple goal in mind: take 100 pictures of people you don't know. Please visit the website and consider how a picture captures that individual in some way and manages to tell a piece of his or her story.

For this blog, our goal is to take a snapshot of one stranger with the pen. So, for this assignment, I'd like for you to find someone you don't know, ask him or her a question or two, and write it up as a scene.  

To break the ice, you might consider this question: If you could be any animal, what would it be and why?  Feel free to tweak the question as you see fit to elicit a response.  Also feel free to blame me if that helps (i.e. I have this class and this jerk professor who's making me ask this question, so...).  Regardless, strike up a conversation and take notes while you do.

Once you've settled down to writing your blog, recreate the scene for your readers, weaving dialogue and actions into this moment.  Make it a scene: pay attention to their clothes, to where you are, to how they react to you approaching them, to your own feelings when approaching, and to what they actually say.  Don't worry about any larger meaning--the whole point is to evoke the particulars of the moment through action and dialogue.

Some of this will, naturally, make you uncomfortable. That's the point, in some ways. But, when you think of it as you're getting to know one person who walks this planet with you a little better, it's actually a pretty cool thing to do.

Finally, anyone who is so inclined to take a picture and if they're willing, please do so.  Looking forward to who you meet!