the narrative to produce a more interesting and compelling story? These are all essential elements I considered when drafting the narrative. After all this is not my own personal experience. However, it is a creative enactment of a genuine tragedy. Subsequently, I used a variety of ‘creative elements’ to coalesce intellect, truth, memory and imagination, to depict a semblance of verisimilitude to portray the emotions of every mother’s worst nightmare. The death of a child. This critical…
Cultural studies focuses on questions of race, gender, and power and so using these theories a creative writing piece can be formed. In fact, one can make a song, poem, or novel inspired from one of these theories: psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, queer theory, marxist theory, historical criticism, postcolonial and critical race theory, and…
thoughts or ideas they have. Once they have finished with all of their ideas then they will go back and edit. A desperation writer is someone who will edit and revise throughout the writing process. Peter Elbow says that a desperation writer blocks the creative flow when you are worried about grammar and word choice.…
Cain supports her evidence by including real-time stories such as the one about Mr. Wozniak and how he got his idea about Apple computers, plus real facts from researchers such as the one previously talked about how most creative people are in fact introverts. While also talking about some of the most popular introverts such as Newton and Picasso. Cain emphasizes “it’s one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle;…
have a purpose in the beginning of the story, however, by trusting her loving uncle, as well as participating in the things she enjoys, regardless of if they are forbidden or frowned upon, she found a purpose in her odyssey. A society that crushes creative thinking and has an unhealthy relationship to electronics is essentially synonymous with our current society. This concept of creativity lacking in our society, especially schools was the…
appears to improve overall student performance. Inventory: Upon completing the inventory quiz, it was determined, my learning style independent, creative, spatial, rational, and concrete. The inventory quiz exhibits validity, reliability, and fairness. I prefer to learn independently through hands on experience. Although the test determined I was creative, I observe the facts when learning new material. I Improvement of my writing skill, would assist in creating professional…
experiment. For example, my “Field Note” poem where I try to connect the fog as a London horror movie type of fog and then using a Sherlock Holmes quote who is a fictional character who lives in London solving mysteries. I never really did that in my creative writing before especially in poetry. Another writing experiment I notice again during this semester is an interesting thing about myself in writing. I remember read someone else's poem to the class,…
I’m the kind of writer who likes to take their time to plan out what to write before I put it together. Once I have my thoughts down on paper I piece them together. I like to read over my writing a few times just to make sure nothing was forgotten, misspelled, or added incorrectly. Honestly, when it comes to writing, I’m kind of a perfectionist just like I happen to be with everything else (photography, baking, any arts and crafts and so much more). As a writer, I have had several good…
Gentilly, Louisiana. She attended St. Mary’s Dominican High School and participated in musical theater. She explained that theater gave her the confidence to speak on TV. After high school, Sheba spent the first half of her college career studying creative writing at New York University. She explained that her interest in attending New York University was due to previous visits to New York with her dad for his work. Due to finical issues, she returned home and attended the University of New…
writing. It is quite repetitive and can be brain draining. As a result, I seldom feel creative enough to want to write outside of work anymore. 2. Have you ever taken any creative writing courses in the past or done any type of creative writing on your own? In what genres (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, etc.) do you like to write? What kinds of subjects do you like to write about? Yes, I took a creative writing class in undergrad.…