This week, we had our second workshop day. After all the groups were done with the workshop, we got into a circle with our literary journal group. The meet’s main focus was the admission guidelines and how many people should occupy a specific job role.
I had some trouble revising one of my previous poems; for the most part I could not keep it a short enough for it to be considered a poem. After a while of experimenting I just gave up on my attempt to keep it a poem and wrote a flash fiction. Looking at my previous poems, I noticed that can elaborate on it and just convert all of them into flash fiction. I found myself writing only about darkness, love, or betrayal themes. I tried to change the theme of some of my previous work and I feel it isn’t as powerful as the original. I also noticed that I struggled more as well to come up with the proper wording for it too.
As I realized that writing about different themes, other than the ones I used to, are more difficult for me I decided practice writing in a different theme like joy and happiness. I did this on my free time and a few poems a day. I did this for three day and then tried to revise my poems. It was like describing something that I couldn’t even see for myself. After a while of trying out different word combinations and imaging it in my mind; it came to me as naturally as my previous poems.
Great insights. It often takes practice to expand our modes of inspiration.
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