{"id":82,"date":"2021-11-01T22:01:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-colinbergen\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2021-11-23T01:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:29:51","slug":"advanced-creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-colinbergen\/expansions\/advanced-creative-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Towards the end of my academic journey, during the second semester of my senior year, I wanted to solidify my descriptive, metaphorical, and formatting skills. I joined Dr. Zurawski again for her Advanced Creative Writing course, which focused primarily on poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the assignments we were given was to write poems based on the artworks available in the \u201cMagical Realism\u201d exhibit at our university art museum. While I intended to evoke the art\u2019s visuals in my own poetry, my goal wasn\u2019t simply to reflect but also to recontextualize. I thought about how I identified with the work, and, consequently, I found myself writing as though I were peering through a window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I initially had to rush through writing these works in a class period, and then I went back and revised them a few times. Overall, I feel I was successful in reflecting the visuals of the work. I think that I represent my observational process through my poetry. My enjambment matches the way my eyes scan through the artwork. Through that imitation, I think I\u2019m able to create a contemplative cadence. I am happy with the metaphors I used in these, but I think I could have gone further and used extended metaphors to pull more of myself into the piece. That would have helped to give them more of a personal identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though this was a different assignment than my previous work, I found that I still exercised the skills I had developed over the course of my journey. I learned to see this artwork as a text that I could modify and have a conversation with. The sense of pacing and cadence I derived from my experience with dialogue and narrative pacing. My attention to set design in my dramatic work aided in my observational skills here. Likewise, learning to re-examine what exists and to provide new perspective to what exists no doubt helped to enhance my creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vickery – Signs<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Wilde – Upstairs<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Wyeth – Loper<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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