To develop the text for my publication I gather my ideas and have decided to incorporate lots of figurative language to link to how people store memories through analogies/metaphors and also give room for rich imagery. I also feel like using figurative language will help with conveying the abstract state of forgetting.

In writing the text, I decided to brainstorm with my friends (who study creative writing) on idioms and metaphors related to memory.

I was able to learn some new idioms- for example “leave no stone unturned” meaning doing everything or looking for everything to find something. It captures my struggles of finding lost items quite well.

I collected more, discarded some, added others to do with absentmindedness, searching and other related themes. The narrative kind of built itself from there.

It is quite simple but I felt that it met the needs of my concept. I was able to refine it by asking friends to give feedback regarding grammar and the flow. One friend suggested using present tense but after I tried it, it got a bit confusing (perhaps because of my own confusion with tenses) and lacked the feeling of a memory recalling process. So I stuck with the mode of someone recounting a recent experience and then reflecting on it.

I was able to make my text a lot smoother by receiving feedback from someone reading it and eliminating unnecessary parts. Some idioms and metaphors were cut out because they didn’t fit. Less is more…

In terms of fullstops, I think I will not be too caught up with making sure every sentence has one as the text reads a bit like a poem, I think enjambment will enhance this effect.