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My thoughts on writing and other random things as they come up. |
| This is a blog where I keep my thoughts and daily comments about writing and WDC. |
| Forgot - new work up at: Mothers Always write. Stage Mother  .It's the first time I've actually had a lot of edits done to something I submitted. I kind of like the result!~ Great place to submit. |
| We made it through the first round of storms last night. OKC area got hit by tornadoes (AGAIN). My poor fellow Oklahomans! I think if I lived in that area, I would have to move. The problem is - where to move TO? Not too far from your job or your family. And not far enough is probably going to land you in the identical situation, because tornadoes are unpredictable. And so are earthquakes. And Bombings. We get dumped on a lot. More storms expected today and this weekend. I will keep everyone in my prayers. In less interesting/more writing related news - So I passed my poetry class. My teacher is leaving for another university, which makes me very sad. I learned a lot from her. I'm really glad I had the opportunity. We had a final conference and discussed my portfolio. I talked to her about how many times what I intended to come through the poem was not - and ways to make that clearer on the page. For instance, I wrote a poem about a young girl wearing "armor" - loud clothing, piercings, who walked around saying volatile things. The intention was that the empathy comes through - the compassion. But it didn't - it came through as if it were a judgement. That seemed to happen a lot - so I had to wonder. Are these hidden things leaking through? Do I really present as making judgements about people? What can I do to correct for this? Are these personal character flaws leaking through? Or am I just not careful enough with my language? I was kind of shocked in workshop when people thought i was looking 'down' on this girl, when in actuality, I was trying to make people feel empathetic for her. I remember what it felt like to be that girl. I suppose I learned many things from my poetry class - but perhaps the most important is that I need to be more careful with my language, and hyper aware of the appearance of assigning negative value to things when it is not warranted. Oh yea - If i hadn't mentioned it - - I got into MFA graduate school (Creative writing - poetry) at my home university. I start in the fall. Mostly thanks to my teacher, and my previous poetry tutor, both who wrote letters of recommendation for me, and everyone here who helped me to improve my writing over the last several years. I couldn't have done it without you! C |
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