How did changing genres from your past blog posts impact your writing and meaning making?
When approaching the assignment of making a haiku out of my microfictions, I began by reading the two pieces over and and pulling out words I thought could be useful. I constructed this list in Microsoft Word and was able to make a coherent piece pretty quickly. However, it did not have anything to do with either microficiton piece I had initally written. The haiku was an entirely new topic for me. It only came easily because the words I was able to pull out still fit together in other settings without losing a meaning. As I said, it was not the same meaning, but when looking at the words, it was easy to find one. I was pleasantly suprised by the seamless process of creating my haiku.
I initially followed the same process when attempting to create my found poem. I looked at the list of all my tweets and began pulling words out that I thought could be placed in my poem. I compiled these words in a Microsoft Word document again. By the time I had about twenty words, I was already starting my poem. This time though, I didn't keep referring back to the words. I wrote the majority of the poem, once I knew what it was going to be about, first, and then looked back at my tweets for a second time to make sure all the words had been used there. If there was a word that was not available from my tweets, I found a way to adapt and alter the words in my found poem. The poem seemed to write itself after I found my start.
What I found truly interesting about my new pieces of writing was that neither seemed heavily influenced from my starting pieces, those of the microfictions and tweets. Though it was possible to see the themes in them upon closer reflection, they did not start out from the same topics. When I looked at my finished products of my haiku and found poem though, the two ended up being of very similar topics and tones. This was not my original intention, especially since I was starting with a different set of words each time, but the end result was the same. I think my new products could have potentially been influenced by my original pieces underlying messages, but they do not look to be of the same topic at first glance. By the end of the creation of my new pieces, the theme and meaning was the same.
When approaching the assignment of making a haiku out of my microfictions, I began by reading the two pieces over and and pulling out words I thought could be useful. I constructed this list in Microsoft Word and was able to make a coherent piece pretty quickly. However, it did not have anything to do with either microficiton piece I had initally written. The haiku was an entirely new topic for me. It only came easily because the words I was able to pull out still fit together in other settings without losing a meaning. As I said, it was not the same meaning, but when looking at the words, it was easy to find one. I was pleasantly suprised by the seamless process of creating my haiku.
I initially followed the same process when attempting to create my found poem. I looked at the list of all my tweets and began pulling words out that I thought could be placed in my poem. I compiled these words in a Microsoft Word document again. By the time I had about twenty words, I was already starting my poem. This time though, I didn't keep referring back to the words. I wrote the majority of the poem, once I knew what it was going to be about, first, and then looked back at my tweets for a second time to make sure all the words had been used there. If there was a word that was not available from my tweets, I found a way to adapt and alter the words in my found poem. The poem seemed to write itself after I found my start.
What I found truly interesting about my new pieces of writing was that neither seemed heavily influenced from my starting pieces, those of the microfictions and tweets. Though it was possible to see the themes in them upon closer reflection, they did not start out from the same topics. When I looked at my finished products of my haiku and found poem though, the two ended up being of very similar topics and tones. This was not my original intention, especially since I was starting with a different set of words each time, but the end result was the same. I think my new products could have potentially been influenced by my original pieces underlying messages, but they do not look to be of the same topic at first glance. By the end of the creation of my new pieces, the theme and meaning was the same.
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