In Broz's article, "The Green Knight Should Be Green: Graphic Response to Literature," he goes through different assignments he gave his students throughout his teaching career that allowed them to respond to literature without the traditional essay.
I may be one of a minimal few, but I have never personally enjoyed creating graphic responses to literature especially when it comes to drawing or creating some sort of physical object like he has his students do in the article. They have always truly been more of a painful experience more than anything, and I've been this way ever since I was a child; I was always a child of words.
I hated art class in elementary school. Every time I had to go, I dreaded it. But I always undertook my own personal writing projects, outside of school requirements.
Even in college, I still find myself the same way. I've had a couple projects where I have had to draw something or create a graphic response to a piece of literature for a project and I found no joy in it with exception to the 20-Shot Short Story we did, but that was a completely different medium.
I'll probably always enjoy the written word over pictures and objects- that's just where my heart lies.
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