lection
Ref
Since this was going to be my last quarter in Honors Lit-Mag I wanted to experiment. So I made it my primary focus for this quarter. I did this though trying out new topics, styles but also by changing my writing. I tried to make every piece different, either though different narrators, characters, point of view, topic, anything. I tried to mix up as many ideas as possible in order to create unique pieces that demonstrated how I challenged myself. As can be seen in my other portfolios I focus on a specific topic I’ll address or a specific style I’d like to focus on. So for this portfolio I challenged myself with every piece, really emphasizing in trying to make it different or unique in some way.
This portfolio holds my favorite pieces as well as the most improved. I want it to demonstrate how I’ve changed thought this course and how my writing has developed an identity. I’m not good with fluff, and corny details, I’m straight forward and to the point, so this quarter I realized that it’s okey that I write differently than my classmates. I understood that I can’t compare my writing and my pieces with someone who’s focus is completely different. Now I understand that I don’t need excruciating details to make a good piece and that I don’t need to force myself to write like that.
Now for the honorable mentions of my pieces. I hold Dear You close to my heart because I rarely let myself be as open and vulnerable about uncomfortable feelings such as failure and heartbreak. I was so overwhelmed with feelings and emotions that I just sat down and wrote a poem that reflected them. This was challenging because not only was I completely exposing myself, I was also facing a relationship that had been muted for so long.
Another way in which I challenged myself was in Down a Rabbit Hole because it was the first time I was playing with second person and I came into it with a very abstract and oblique idea of what I wanted to accomplish so it required a lot of revision and editing but it turned out good.
I can’t believe another year of highschool has flown by and I can’t believe I’m finished with my creative writing class. I won’t say it wasn’t challenging especially since I’m not particularly a liberal arts kind of gal, but what I do know is that Lit-Mag taught me things that AP Chemistry never will.