Hello! My name is Savannah, and I live by only one rule in life: in order to fully experience anything, you must fully immerse yourself into it. I believe this rule applies to my writing techniques also, because I love to be engrossed in my own stories. In fact, I think it is the only way to really create literature that is truthful and complete. Food for thought: why do you think J.K. Rowling can so easily explain what her characters were thinking or how they felt during a specific chapter or event in the Harry Potter Series? I'll tell you. Rowling can do that simply because she is able to completely become a character she has created, she feels everything they feel. J.K. Rowling exemplifies my writing philosophy entirely.
The three works I have chosen to showcase are titled Troubled Minds, Blackout Poem, and The Girl Who Didn't Love.
1) Troubled Minds: this is a free-verse poem I wrote early in the year. I think this poem best shows my writing style, simply because there were no requirements for this poem. I was given complete control on the topic, format, and message of this poem. I feel very proud of the outcome of this work. I enjoy the fact that I can take entire credit for this piece.
2) Blackout Poem: I would consider this piece more of a creation or art piece rather than a work of literature. However, that is the reason I have picked it. My blackout poem is simply a magazine page. Yet it morphed into a story that relates in no way whatsoever to the page it was created from. I especially loved creating this because it is really a hit-or-miss project, you cannot make any mistakes while creating a blackout poem because you are working with a black marker.
3) The Girl Who Didn't Love: this poem is different from the other two that I have chosen. It differs because for this poem I was given something to write about. I wrote about a piece of art called Armored Hearts by Renee Stout. I enjoy Stout's work and it was really very easy for me to conjure (haha) up an ekphrastic response to her art.
The three works I have chosen to showcase are titled Troubled Minds, Blackout Poem, and The Girl Who Didn't Love.
1) Troubled Minds: this is a free-verse poem I wrote early in the year. I think this poem best shows my writing style, simply because there were no requirements for this poem. I was given complete control on the topic, format, and message of this poem. I feel very proud of the outcome of this work. I enjoy the fact that I can take entire credit for this piece.
2) Blackout Poem: I would consider this piece more of a creation or art piece rather than a work of literature. However, that is the reason I have picked it. My blackout poem is simply a magazine page. Yet it morphed into a story that relates in no way whatsoever to the page it was created from. I especially loved creating this because it is really a hit-or-miss project, you cannot make any mistakes while creating a blackout poem because you are working with a black marker.
3) The Girl Who Didn't Love: this poem is different from the other two that I have chosen. It differs because for this poem I was given something to write about. I wrote about a piece of art called Armored Hearts by Renee Stout. I enjoy Stout's work and it was really very easy for me to conjure (haha) up an ekphrastic response to her art.
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