"Scrapbooks and Zines as Everyday Writing"

Katriel and Farrell contribute greatly to our conversations of everyday writing beginning with the topic of scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is so important as lookigng through them they become a "spark to a memory". Scrapbooks act as a piece of everyday writing being a genre of self, rhetorical artifacts, and an American art of memory. There are many components to scrapbook making that make this piece of everyday writing a genre of self. They are considered autobiographical texts that tell a story on ones life. When making a scrapbook, the audience is seen as yourself. You make a scrapbook in hopes to always have that permanent organized book of pictures of memories to look at. Whether it's pictures, or letters saved from loved ones,  A look at one picture or letter can instantly help your memory travel back in time to that very day, which also elicits many other memories that one may have forgot about. The creator of the scrapbook is able to choose freely how to construct the scrapbook because of the audience being oneself. Another topic that is addressed by Katriel and Farrell is that scrapbooking tends to be a gender specific piece of everyday writing. Women tend to make scrapbooks to remember memories over men. This genre of scrapbooking has three main techniques that are used when one is making a scrapbook. They are saving, contemplating, and organizing and sharing.  Their is a pleasure principle found within scrapbooking, and all of these techniques listed above are based off of this pleasure principle. People make scrapbooks the way they want to make them. By this I mean that one wants to make a scrapbook by saving (their chosen memories and memories that mean the most to them), contemplating (who they want to see their scrapbook and show it to), and organizing (how they want to organize their scrapbook). Most scrapbooks are usually organized in chronological order, which is a common theme found throughout the scrapbooking technique. Scrapbooking gives a sense of permanence, which contributes to a characteristic of "Everyday Writing". Like scrapbooks I believe Zines are a great example of everyday writing. They are selfpublished, like scrapbooks and also creative ways to express oneself. However, Zines and Scrapbooks have one main difference, the audience. Zines are made for a large audience to see and reflect on while scrapbooks are not. Scrapbooks are made in a more personal way for ones eyes to see, rather than a large audience. They reflect on a very personal aspect of ones life. Despite this difference, they are both to me considered pieces of everyday writing through their creativity and audiences.
-Mallory Abercrombie