Final Blog Reflection
Dear reader,
In the past school year, I have made a blog with a total of 25 posts on it (26 including this reflection). I have written in ways both new and familiar. Prior to this blog, I hadn’t seriously written any poetry for fun. I hadn’t even toyed with it. Such a thing is bizarre for me to say considering how much I love to chase new experiences. After all, I’ve tried writing books and songs and about five different instruments along with three different runes and two different languages. I collect new experiences like I can never get enough of living. Now, after this blog, I can say I’ve collected at least three more. I think what helped the most was having so many sources of inspiration to draw from. While I’ve had plenty of those days where even the sun seemed dull, I could always look forward to eventually piecing myself together enough to explore interesting concepts. Through my dearest friends and the alternate universes I’ve crafted with my bare hands, it was difficult to return from the abyss feeling anything but inspired. Or at least ready to be inspired. The blog, overall, was a challenge. It was a challenge I pursued with an open mind, and it was a challenge that influenced me to play around even more with poetry and prose. I’m just as curious as I was before, but now I have more experience.
The prose, poetry, analysis, and mind map pieces on my blog are all works that I put a lot of effort into. In the process of making them, they were constantly revised until I was content with them. They were alI important to me; however, I do have my favorites. One piece that demonstrates my progress is my poem about love told from the perspective of one of my original characters: “What Does Love Feel Like?” As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never created poems so seriously before; however, this was endearing to me as a content creator because it allowed me develop my character on a level I’ve never considered before. I even sent this one to my friends to hear their thoughts, and I was happy with the way the poem was perceived, especially because they knew about the original character I had in mind. Another piece I want to mention is a prose piece, and this surrounds the character that I’ve just spoken about as well as another character of mine. It’s called “We Should Stay Enemies,” and for this I had to think deeply about how two of my original characters would interact with each other in a time of stress. I remember taking personality tests to better gauge the thinking processes of each individual, so this piece definitely required a lot of independence on my end. I think the success of this piece furthered the story that I had in mind, so I was very proud with how it turned out. One of the most difficult pieces I created was the prose on the history of another original character of mine: “The Tale of Psysuakaida.” This piece took place in an alternate reality of a universe I made from scratch alongside my friends. It heavily relied on fantasy and my ability to come up with a new way to introduce a character I’ve already established. This was turning an action-based superhero story into a fantasy and found family based story. While it was challenging, I was happy with the result. In fact, I was overjoyed when I realized I had to develop characters that didn’t even exist in the original content’s material. I would say that my pride is evident in just about every piece that I’ve created so far. I am most proud of my prose and poetry work because I was able to cover a wide range of topics and because I was able to make them about the people and tropes that bring me joy. I wrote about love, conflict, grief, fantasy, hope, and all in completely different settings. I think working on these pieces helped me to become more willing to try new approaches in writing. I look forward to exploring more even after posting on this blog.
Gratefully,
Celeste
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