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It's my senior year in highschool and I'm stretching my fingers and getting down and gritty with my writing. I'm trying to grow as a writer and deal with the drama (read: trauma) of my life and school. Should be interesting, as my life is something of a comedy of errors... |
| No new writing. Tragedy of the world. I am just too emo right now. Haven't been around a ton. Life is sucking ass right now. |
| I left a review for someone, telling them that the rhyming in their poem was a bit 'awkeward' (typo, omg. not like I can't spell) but that it was clever. And she attacked me, saying 'Well, if you want to leave reviews like that, learn how to spell!' Oh my god. Chill out. It was a bloody typo, and I could have left the review with nothing nice in it. |
| Now, let me be the first to say that I could be better at taking criticm. However, I find taking criticism that does not take the nature of the piece into account, darn near impossible. I hate receiving reviews on my prose pieces demanding a plot. That is not the point of most of my writing. I am not a 'story teller' by definition. If anything, I'm a bit of an Imagist, but that's even a stretch. The point is this: I like to use prose as others might use poetry. It really isn't that uncommon. I don't usually put my prose pieces under the category of 'fiction' or 'short story' because they aren't! I put them in the 'prose' category, because that is what they are! Ugh. I just get so frustrated when people say 'it would be good if it had a plot' when all it's supposed to be is a three paragraph narrative or description. |
Second place in
Yay for me.  Hugs and kisses, Sara ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| I've been thinking a bunch about what defines my style, and I don't believe there is much. I think I have a very imaginative style, and a rich style (especially in prose) but I also loooove to personify things. I do that more than anything, I think. My focus lies mainly on people and objects, and I like that. I think I use interesting images, in many cases, and I like that. And the wacky whimsy that floats through a few of my poems. I like that too.  I feel like I've begun to fit my style (if it may be called that) and I'm quite glad. I'm glad my style is fairly diverse and that if you read Watchmaker, you wouldn't necessarily know that it was by the same person that wrote Gull. My next big task (aside from Poem A Day Journal: "Invalid Item"  is to attempt a long short story, weighing in at about twenty pages. I haven't ever really attempted fiction of that lenght, and I'm hoping it will teach me some discipline! That would be good. KISSIES, Sara |
| Everything got voted in! Three were unanimous votes (huzzah, I rock!) and everything was very widely liked. I got many compliments on Watchmaker and everyone liked Two Pennies. Gull even went over very well. Soooo happy. Even the non voters voted me in. HAHAHAHA. I WIN. Smooch, --Sara |
We only have two weeks left for Deja Vu (school's lit mag) submissions, and I freaked and submitted five things.
{bitem:957554] So, Thursday, we shall see what happens. And if none of it makes it, well, that's alright too. I've already got three in! Huzzah for me. So far I have: {bitem:951240}
Affair and Robin's Egg were unanimous too. SO there. Hahahaha. I need to stop downloading music. It's like an addiction or something. So, it's official (sorta). I'm going to UCLA, because my town gets screwed over by admissions boards. Ah well. Smooch, Sara |
| I haven't been really around and about writing.com lately. I've been checking in and dropping a few blogs, but I haven't really been reviewing or doing contests or anything. I think my head is just broken. I haven't been able to get anything out onto paper lately, and it's very disconcerting. |
| So, Vassar rejected me, but I'm doing alright. I mean, it's a great, great school, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. I haven't been writing at all over break. No inspiration. But I know I have to get together all my old pieces so that I may submit them to Deja Vu. We're only taking submissions for a bit longer, and I always do this last minute thing. But this year, I will get them in a week early! I scribbled down two poems late last week that need a twinge of editting, but perhaps I'll polish up those. I still don't feel like I know how to write poetry, and it's rather disconcerting... Ack, I still have that Hot Bassist poem to write. Hee. My grandmother is really pressing me to enroll in the summer program at Cambridge. They have such fantastic lit classes (such as English Literary Villians and Shakespeare's Hamlet: The World's Most Famous Play) and I would die to go if there were any way I could afford it. Well, life is life. Expecting a few more college letters soon. In case anyone was wondering, I did make it into DePaul, though I do not believe I'll be going there. Kiss kiss, Sara |
| Recent reviews have left me feeling very strange and displeased with how my writing is viewed. "Invalid Item" was reviewed as a 'cute story about a watchmaker' which wasn't to the point at all. It did have purpose, though I didn't make it blatantly obvious. I wanted to keep it descriptive and vaugely narrative, while still speaking to a point. I wanted prose instead of an essay. Grr. "Overlapping" received a review that said, "Intresting words...not much story [....] and I know you have a story just waiting to be written." There is no story. It's narrative, descriptive prose. No story involved. There will never be a story. Why is there no real forum for short, narrative, prettily written prose? I may write prose, but I am not what I would called a 'Fiction Writer.' I mean, sure, what I write is imaginative and fictional, but it is not commercial fiction. End of story. I'm going to go be displeased elsewhere. And write a poem about this very hot boy I watched play the bass guitar last night. Cheers, Sara |
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