Re-reading Writing Part 2

You have finished your novel. You have experienced it as a different reader, a different self than the last time. Now it's time to reflect.

Here's the the overarching question: How do you as a reader bring a different self to a body of work at different times in your life?

Keeping that main question in mind, here are a new set of questions to guide your writing:
1. In what ways did the book remain the same?
2. In what ways did the book change?
3. What is the dominant impression you've taken away from the book this time? How does that impression compare to when you previously read the book?
4. What did you notice that you didn't notice before? Did you see something — a character, a conflict, a detail — that you previously missed?
5. Was the experience of reading the book different since you already knew the outcome? Could you more easily focus on the language? Was the process less stressful?

How are you going to answer these questions? Good question.

• Respond in no more than 1 page (this doesn't mean 1 line or 2 lines over; it means ONE PAGE!), 1.5 or double spacing, 12 point Times, 1" margins
  
• Your response should be clear, concise, well structure and move beyond simply answering the questions.
• Tell your reader a story about this experience.
  
• You can use "I".
• You can get as personal as you like, but think about how all of your answers work together; find the common thread, and use that to tie it all together.
• Think about your purpose. What's one point you want your reader to take away and focus all of your paragraphs to that one idea.
• You can do it!