stalking

everyone has/does/will stalk someone else.  we're all creepers, we just aren't always open about it.  this exercise was interesting because it forced us to be critical observers.  we became the predator mentioned in the poem dr. lay read in class, carefully and purposefully observing our surroundings and our prey(subject).  the exercise was designed to strengthen our observation methods.  good writers must be good observers to correctly portray whatever it is they are writing about.  the metaphor portion of the exercise had us thinking outside of the box which is useful in writing.  it is much more interesting to paint a picture using metaphors than tell the reader exactly what you see, allow your reader to use his or her imagination.