Thus far, the studio has functioned, in essence, as an extended exercise in becoming more aware of the experience of everyday life and the small nuances which may make it interesting. While the immediate aim in participation is to be able to improve my ability to produce highly detailed and therefore more realistic written pieces, I hope that such will generally assist in producing media of a greater depth and detail that may therefore be more engaging for the audience.

That said, the process of observational writing did not come naturally at first. In fact, I struggled to a considerable extent with not only identifying what in my environment would make for what I believed would be a ‘good’ subject for observation, but also with beginning to write an observational piece once my subject had been identified. Such ultimately led to my not writing a lot of potential observations due to frustrations that arose from uncertainty in how to start writing, I was often scratching out and deleting or re-writing opening sentences and clauses because I was of the belief that such were too forced, awkward and unnatural to be of any value.

As the past few weeks have progressed, however, I feel that I have begun to notice a change in my writing as it comes with a much greater degree of ease. I struggle still with perceiving potential content, and sometimes find myself wandering and actively searching for content (although often I don’t write about what I observe on these occasions), however the beginning of writing a piece now comes with greater ease.

Further to this, in my initial observations I was acutely aware of the pace of my piece as I wrote, however I now find myself less actively involved in consideration of such. While I believe still that pace is important, in becoming more aware of my consideration of pace I have realised that it is not imperative. Such has led to my wanting to experiment with the possibility of greater realism in representation of experience with naturalistic irregularity in pace and to what degree the inclusion of a manufactured pace may enhance an observation.