Krista Ramsey Columns

Response:

The column I read was called "Locking into the magic of Legos" by Krista Ramsey. My favorite line in this column was "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Jungle Duel can, with a little imagination, turn into sword-training for a ninja or a backyard sleepout with giant ants." I like this line because it can be related to easily and give us a great visual image. Also, it shows us the wildness of the children's imagination. The column is written for the adult point of view. This line impacts that view because it shows the parents how some small polymer bricks can transform into an amazing object of the child's fantasy. The child may appear to be playing with colored cubes, but there is much more processing and thinking involved. Also, the way she says "giant ants" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was so the reader can relate to it. They can see how something everyone knows of, Indiana Jones, can be turned into an ironic situation, giant ants.

Questions:

• When you have writers block, what do you do to get out of it?
• How do you make your writing seem different every time, no repetition?
• How are you able to talk about something so frequently without running out of ideas?

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