Hi, Grace! To start off, can you please briefly introduce yourself to our audience?
Where are you from? What kind of art do you create? (and whatever else you’d like to share…)
Your poem, “Crash Together” uses a lot of beautiful imagery about a girl and her relationship with water. What role does that imagery play in the poem? This poem could be taken a lot of different ways, but I chose water to represent love. Her enjoyment of the water is her enjoyment of the feeling she gets when she’s with her person. While forms of water are truly beautiful, they can also be extremely destructive. With beauty comes ugliness, and love is a disaster. There are ups and downs but it is always beautiful.
Talk about your process when you sit down to write. Do you have a favorite place to go? A favorite song to listen to? I like writing very randomly. I never actually prepare to do it, I just do. I write a lot while I’m driving. Not physically, that’s dangerous, but I think up poems and pieces in my head. The car, and the nature surrounding it is often what inspires me to write. I don’t have a favorite song to listen to when I write, because my songs change so often. I prefer to write without music playing, I like listening to the noise already around me.
What advice would you give to emerging writers? Another way to think about it: what advice would you give to your younger self?
Not everything you write is going to be good. You’ll have really good pieces and you may have really bad ones. You should never give up and you should never stop writing. So just let go and write.
(Optional): Provide links to your website, social media, or other places where readers can connect with you. (3 links max)
Instagram: Notsograceful17
GS&NS: Your poem, “Crash Together” uses a lot of beautiful imagery about a girl and her relationship with water. What role does that imagery play in the poem?
Grace: This poem could be taken a lot of different ways, but I chose water to represent love. Her enjoyment of the water is her enjoyment of the feeling she gets when she’s with her person. While forms of water are truly beautiful, they can also be extremely destructive. With beauty comes ugliness, and love is a disaster. There are ups and downs but it is always beautiful.
GS&NS: Talk about your process when you sit down to write. Do you have a favorite place to go? A favorite song to listen to?
Grace: I like writing very randomly. I never actually prepare to do it, I just do. I write a lot while I’m driving. Not physically, that’s dangerous, but I think up poems and pieces in my head. The car, and the nature surrounding it is often what inspires me to write. I don’t have a favorite song to listen to when I write, because my songs change so often. I prefer to write without music playing, I like listening to the noise already around me.
GS&NS: What advice would you give to emerging writers?
Grace: Not everything you write is going to be good. You’ll have really good pieces and you may have really bad ones. You should never give up and you should never stop writing. So just let go and write.
Connect with Grace:
Instagram: Notsograceful17
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