Week of October 25-November 1: Process Post
Transitioning from poetry to fiction writing has been somewhat of a change. I learned a lot throughout the poetry portion of the class and was able to open my mind up to many new ideas, writing styles and opinions. There are many different ways to write poetry. Writing poetry is quite different than writing fiction. There are different things and ideas that you need to get across in both forms of writing. I can’t remember the last time, if ever, that I was forced to sit down and write a poem. It was all a very new idea to me. I was scared out of my mind. After trying for the first time, it really wasn’t quite as scary as I thought it would be. Having different promts made the process of brainstorming ideas much easier. This allowed me to focus more on what I was writing, rather than just having to come up with an idea. A poem doesn’t have to be on specific topics. Poems don’t even need to be deep. Some poems can be so simple and just written about a basic object that no one tends to even look at or think about as art. I am somewhat looking forward to the fiction writing portion of the class, just because that is what I am framilier with and used to when it comes to writing. I tend to stress out about the idea of having to write a story in comparison to having to write a poem. I am a bit nervous for the length that the story for our portfolio has to be in the end, but we’ll see.
