{"id":11011,"date":"2021-01-06T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2021-01-06T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:24:40","slug":"influenced-by-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/01\/06\/influenced-by-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Influenced by Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Abstract Anxiety by Madison White\n\nThere were um, lights - different circles of red, white, purple, orange - \nfilling non distinctive shapes. \n\nThen it shows you brushing through \nblurry grass;\nyour under someone\u2019s feet\nas feelings swell;\nyour rushing through clovers as the music \nbuilds \nyour anticipation to nothing. \n\nThere were plenty of light taps against \nmetal,\nmixed with the clattering of multiple cutoff \nsounds.\nMultiple deep thumps like splashes underwater\nWhooshes\nthundering in your ears, almost like a train.\nSounds \nof grain being piled. The loud buildup clearly ended \ninto a calm noise of a rice filled shaker.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This poem was written after watching Otavia – Abstract video art<\/a><\/strong>, which was posted on youtube by Anat Gutberg<\/a> on April 2, 2016. You could go and watch it if you want to. (Other junior literary students have already seen it, but the link is above if you want to watch it again.) <\/p>\n
I wrote that poem as an attempt to replicate the sounds and images from the video. Abstract Anxiety<\/em> is a free verse poem – I basically wrote my train of thought after watching  Otavia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Small Child by Madison White \n\nLaying in your \nlap\n\nA small \nchild \n\nWrapped in a \nblanket \n\nTheir hand tight on your \nthumb<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This poem, A Small Child,<\/em> was also an imitation. The goal was to copy the format, or the stanzas, of The Red Wheelbarrow<\/a> <\/em>by <\/span>William Carlos Williams.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams.\n\nso much depends\nupon\n\na red wheel\nbarrow\n\nglazed with rain\nwater\n\nbeside the white\nchickens<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
So I’m gonna end this post by saying this: using mentor texts is a really good way to experiment with your own writing style. Imitating a certain characteristic that you like of another author’s work is an easy way to expand your abilities and try something new. And you don’t have to imitate the same thing every time; you could imitate the topic, the tone, the message, the format, the word count, the line count – you can pick whatever you want to imitate!<\/p>\n
Everybody has different strengths, and imitating others’ work is a great way to grow – and that applies to most everything! But don’t forget that even if imitating is a very helpful process, you still need to get creative and come up with your own!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abstract Anxiety by Madison White There were um, lights – different circles of red, white, purple, orange –  filling non distinctive shapes.  Then it shows you brushing through  blurry grass; your under someone\u2019s feet as feelings swell; your rushing through clovers as the music  builds  your anticipation to nothing.  There were plenty of light taps … Continue reading “Influenced by Others”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11049,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}