Weblogging the Place:
          "Station yourself somewhere [in town] such as the entrance to a movie theater or restaurant] or any place where people tend to gather. Go there every day for at least five days and write a neutral description f what you see and hear. Don't include judgments or conclusions about your scene. Just collect detail that strikes you as particularly telling. You will find that it is surprisingly difficult to leave out your reactions, though you should recognize that the details you choose to record are already reactions because it is you and your orientation toward the world that have selected them.
         When you are finished put together a one-to two-page account that tells by showing-- that is, your account should be made up entirely of telling detail rather than your interpretations of the significance of tat detail. Your goal is to provide readers of your account with a window on the world, but one that is, of course, highly selective, because writing does not operate like a camera eye. Writing is inevitably and necessarily more selective. Keep revising your account until you have a rendering of your "data"--the observed details--that will cause your readers to think and feel as you do about the scene" (7).