Month: January 2019

As many of you know, this blog is for a creative writing class I am taking. Sadly this class is coming to and end which means an end to the blog posts. Thank you for reading my work and leaving encouraging comments. I hope you enjoyed reading!

About the Author

My writing history has been mostly limited to school. Any writing I did outside of school was for school. Since this class has started I have begun to keep a journal in my free time. Over this semester I feel like I became a better writer. NaNoWriMo really helped me to push me to think about actually writing a full story with lots of details. Overall, I think this semester has helped me to become a better writer. I would define my writing style as writing about the future. I like to think about the present world and twist it into a dystopian vision of the future.

My chosen piece is a Tanka that we wrote in class. I based it off of my novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo a few months back. I really liked my novel so I tried to fit some elements of my novel into other styles we wrote. Out of all of my pieces about my novel, this one was my favorite because it really describes how my characters were feeling. I honestly really like writing Tankas so I felt like this was a good mesh of the two things I liked the most during the semester.

STUCK

Today is the day

I will finally go home.

No more dull, grey walls.

I will bathe in the sunlight.

The white doors close. I am stuck.

so much depends

upon

a grey concrete

sidewalk

littered with colorful

pictures

small reminders of

childhood

I wrote a poem inspired by “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. I chose this type of poem because it was a new style for me. To me, this poem is about returning to childhood thoughts when I see children drawing with chalk. I would see what they were drawing and I would think about how my imagination would run wild and my thoughts would flow onto the sidewalk through my chalk doodles. I have always just been a really nostalgic person and this poem was a great way for me to express that idea.

I have never really been a big poetry person. I’m still not, but, this was a fun unit to get myself out of my comfort zone and try a new style of writing. This unit was pretty interesting because I didn’t really know anything about rhythm and meter. Although I struggled with some of the poems, I found that I really like writing haiku. To sum up, I enjoyed this unit and I hope I become more of a poetry person in the future.