A Thlog in the Machine

This(last, sorry it's late) week in writing class we talked mostly about WP3 which is a cool idea. I am having a hard time trying to make it interesting. I was reading through lots of the other student's PB3As for PB3B and what really stuck out was that for those who did option 1(most people), everyone's essence was the content of the scholarly article that I read. It would be really interesting to see another take on the essence of the article. When we went over the essence during that activity in class other examples of essence were like sources and citations, but more of the stuff is about IMRAD things. I think that I am going to try and do option 3 for my WP3, but if I do end up doing option 1 I think I will try to do something interesting for my essence. My definition of essence can only describe the content of the work however,  I think that your(Zac) definition is different than mine and I am trying to figure out exactly what is so I can have some fun with it. Honestly, I will probably come to class tomorrow with 3 poorly put together rough drafts of different ideas and re-pitch them to you. I know that the whole idea of PB3A was to pitch you these ideas; however, I really just didn't have a good grasp on the idea of PB3A when I wrote it, sorry. Now that I do, all these segments of ideas are forming that could potentially work together and form a somewhat coherent WP3. For option 3 I think I am going to write either a fable about writing a fable, or a ballad about writing a ballad. If I do option 1 I think I will throw some somewhat shady ideas at the wall and see if they stick. Who knows what will happen. But it the essence that I extract from the piece will definitely not be the content of the work. I going to look into more niche disciplines and try to find any unique techniques that they use and extract them from the scholarly article. The only real problem with that is then I don’t see the point in picking any one article. If all I am doing is dissecting the technique of the article  and extracting the essence, then ignore the content(mostly) which seems off. Anyways, we’ll see what happens; I hope it works.