Someone shoot me... In Cold Blood

So, I'm diving into Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and it is just further proving how out of practice I am. There are no deep analytical questions here. We are still talking about tone, foreshadowing, style, and author motives. This is easy stuff. This is cake. This is what used to make me tick, so why I am feeling a touch overwhlemed at the prospect?

I believe that once I sit down to actually start writing, the words will come and the ideas will be much more solid than they seem now. That is one purpose of writing, after all.

Of the things I will be looking at more is the narrator's choice to change tense from past to present in the middle of a paragraph when describing various characters. There is some stylistic thing here that I haven't exactly put my finger on yet. Also, I want to look closer at the narrative style. I find it interesting how the story is told as a novel and then suddenly looks more like a police report, full of quotes and first-hand accounts. This, after all, is the point of the literary journalism genre, but it is not one I've looked at with much depth, so naturally, I am curious about the finer style points here.

While I feel out of practice, and rustier than an old nail, I know this class is likely to be the most rewarding literary experience I've had since high school. I feel like I'm actually going to learn some things here, and be given the chance to sharpen my mind up again, and I truly value that. Buckle up, boys and girls, this is going to be a fun ride.