Saturday, April 29, 2006
#21: Surface
Hello, hello everyone!
This week: surface.
And off we go!
Monday, April 24, 2006
#20: Register
For some reason, blogger was being weird this morning and would not publish this post, no matter how much I sweet-talked it. Anyway…
I cannot believe we’re at week 20. That’s awesome!
So it’s my finals week, and I’m gonna cut to the chase:
register. Run with it.
See you next week!
Monday, April 17, 2006
#19: Illustration
Wow, I totally spaced out this morning and forgot to post this week’s topic.
I’m SORRY!
I am done with school in two weeks. Hopefully I will be less flakey then.
In the meantime, the new prompt is illustration.
See you next week!
Monday, April 10, 2006
#18: Shiver
Hello everyone!
First off, I want to apologize for not being able to read everyone’s entries lately. I really enjoy doing that, but lately, my school schedule is like whoa. Three weeks! Three weeks and then...I have to start reading for my thesis. But reading is not nearly as time consuming. Anyway, I’m glad everyone’s still going at the prompts. As always, you can check out last week’s comments to read everyone’s entries.
This week’s prompt is Shiver.
See you next week!
Monday, April 3, 2006
#17: Follow
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Weekly Anamnesis #17! Thanks to everyone for writing last week. Remember, you can always check out last week’s comments to read everyone’s entries.
So! This week’s topic is follow. Off to write, anamnesisites! Yup, I just made up that word. It looks too difficult to actually pronounce, but you know, whatev.
Monday, March 27, 2006
#16: Amendment
Hi guys!
Normally I post these in the mornings, but I’ve been super busy the past week, and this morning in particular. Sorry to make you wait.
I also decided that it’s silly for me to retype links to everyone’s entries when you can just go to last week’s comments. :) (Also a time saving method!)
So in any case, this week’s topic is amendment, taken from a syllabus from last semester. I enjoy letting you know how I come up with these topics.
Write away! And clicky-clicky in last week’s comments to read everyone’s entries!
Monday, March 20, 2006
#15: Congratulations
Hey guys! Hope last week was good to everyone. It seems like we’re getting some new people, so I’d like to direct anyone who hasn’t been there already to the welcome message. The word “anamnesis” means “a recalling to mind; reminiscence,” and Pete and I were thinking it could be a good way for people to share their anecdotes or reflections about things that have happened to them at some point. Check out the welcome page and let me know if you have any questions!
I really enjoyed reading the entries last week, as always. This week’s prompt is congratulations. I just saw it on a letter. Again, my scientific method is astounding!
And clicky-clicky on some links and read last week’s entries.
-d-Its one of those quotes that make my skin crawl [...]
Angela - A careful eye can teach you what the ear can miss [...]
Karen - In the days when email was moving from something that only large companies with mainframes had [...]
Caitlin - Bob: Hello, you have reached xxx-xxxx. [...]
Joseph’s Left One - I was watching “Sixteen Candles” with my daughter the other night [...]
Toadman - Pick up the phone! I’m the best thing that every happened to you [...]
Julia - I didn’t know what it was called, I still don’t [...]
SomeGirl - There were words today and tonight. [...]
Heather - There’s something to be learned from all of life’s messages [...]
lma - You hear it all the time: “Don’t shoot the messenger.” [...]
Rose - Our relationship has always been an odd one. [...]
Sunday, March 12, 2006
#14: Messages
Wow. I mean, what a turnout on anamnesis’s first week at its own blog. That’s awesome. It was really great to read new people’s words, as well as the usual lovlies. I’ve loved reading everyone’s entries.
This week’s prompt is messages.
And below (in explicit demonstration of what I dislike about blogspot), making the entry 12398021903821 times longer and not able to be hidden, are all of last week’s entries. Enjoy! See you next week!
Ms. Pants - You thrust your arm in front of me and proudly display your heart on your sleeve. [...]
Natalie - Everyone is “you” to someone, and every time is “now” at least once. [...]
RedSaid - The paved, narrow farm road leads up a subtle slope between tidy rows of grape vines. [...]
Julia - Expecting, anticipating, languishing [...]
Rose - At 6:30, when I hadn’t heard from you, I knew exactly what was going on. [...]
Angela - So far in my life I have had to learn a good many things about being patient. [...]
Karen - When my love and I were happily engaged, a girl in my Co-op English class got married but continued her studies. [...]
Sarah - all my life i’ve been waiting. [...]
Caitlin - It’s a cold, gray morning and there is a fine mist in the air. [...]
Toadman - It’s a lovely day. The sun is warm, there’s a nice breeze, and the darkness and fear in my mind is slowly drifting away like smoke. [...]
Joseph’s Left One (I’m sorry, that cracks me up) - I hate my dogs. [...]
-d - I’ve spent my life waiting. [...]
Sideon - The needle wasn’t the worst part. [...]
Jamelah - It was May, 1993. I was thirteen years old [...]
Heather - I am first and foremost a dreamer. I am secondly a planner. [...]
Amanda B. - I sat on the tan sofa, looking out the window across the black water towards the dim light of the lighthouse in the distance. [...]
Sunday, March 5, 2006
#13: Waiting
Welcome to the first weekly anamnesis at its new home!
This week’s topic is waiting. And as always, below are the writers for last week’s topic.
Rose - I thrive on stability.
Angela - Last night, as is sometimes the case, drinks were warranted.
Karen - Warrant makes me think of police procedures; you know, “Get a warrant to search the premises.”
Julia - “I can’t remember it! I have looked all through the book and I can’t find the blasted thing anywhere,” I said in frustration as I slammed the book onto the table.
SomeGirl - I was 11, maybe 12. Amanda (yes this is her real name) and I were best of friends.
Heather - My step-sister lived in a different world than I; even when she stayed with us her rules were different.
Amanda B - I like to think of my past as travels through different worlds.
Caitlin - Rich stole into my life like a masterful thief with his eye on the prize and a natural inclination for deception.
Brandon - Thirty years later she would continue to lose children.
Ms Pants - In grade school, I had a crush on a kid named Eddie.
Me, Natalie - It was not always stated.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Welcome!*
We’ve been doing anamnesis for over 3 months; it was time for it to get its very own blog. Part of the reason for the move was that I thought it would be a good way to involve more people. If you’re new to the game, you might wonder what a “weekly anamnesis” is, exactly.
A few months ago, my friend and I thought it would be interesting to post a different word each week. The word would be something broad, but not cliched: something like difference, or indiscretion, or smoke (all of which have been past prompts). Then, bloggers-turned-writers would post personal anecdotes inspired by the prompt, incorporating the word somehow. At the end of the week, all the participants could read each other’s recollections. We figured, isn’t that the point of blogs? To write about ourselves and somehow make a connection?
So that’s what we’ve done. Each Monday (usually in the morning), we post a new prompt word. After that, you get to writing. There are only a few simple guidelines that we came up with, in the spirit of keeping everything cohesive and purposeful:
1. Unless you’re going to open yourself up, don’t bother. It defeats the entire purpose of it, if you’re going to make shit up, or pretend that something is what it isn’t. You don’t need to give super specific details, or anything like that. But, you have to give something of yourself into this.
2. Think about the topic seriously. If it’s a funny topic, that’s fine. if it’s not, take it seriously, and really think about an interesting, deep, wonderful, painful, glorious, infamous, whatever story.
Don’t simply read the topic, and decide right then and there what to write about. You’ve got a week. Use as much time as you need.
3. Post a link in your entry to this site, so that your readers can find out how they can also participate.
4. Comment at this site with a link to the post so that we can keep track of them. This way, people can see what everyone writes about. At the end of the week, we’ll post them all in one entry on both sites, and let people take that post, and make it for themselves. It’s a collaborative writing project.
The next prompt will be on Monday, March 6. Visit then and write with us! I look forward to sharing in everyone’s memories!