Last Blog :( Words and the Editing Process)

I cannot believe this is our last blog!

This week, we continued the editing process and talked a lot more about preparing pieces for the portfolio. Now that I have started editing my poems and have let go of my original ideas and words from my first drafts, I have been able to open up a lot more and be able to really edit my work. Because of this, I have created even better poems and words that are more complete and thought provoking.

I have known that there is significance in words, but that through the creative process new ideas and thoughts can be written and newer, more significant, more poem- worthy words can be created and used for your work. I have really begun to see this because of the editing process and I am glad that we are doing this because it is helping to remind me how important the editing process is to all forms of writing, not just poetry.

This semester, the most enjoyable piece that we had to collaborate was definitely the imitation of the other poets work. I really enjoyed doing this activity because it was almost like a model or guide I got to use to create my very own poem. The most challenging collaborative piece that we had to do was the beginning or I guess I should say the introduction of the short short fictions. I remember we had to choose a line from another poet's short short and build off of it. I found this activity extremely challenging because I just had no idea what to build off of from that one line and then create a whole fictional work. It was hard and I still think that shorts are the hardest to write even though they are fictional works. They just are more difficult to create in my mind. I think I am better at writing non-fictional work because I have an idea already in my head. I guess I am just more of a non-fictional poem writer!