Saturday Spotlight for April 27th, 2013

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Today's featured deviant is:
 Concora!


 

Questions

 

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing.

For as long as I can remember I have been a reader, but never really a (creative) writer. That changed around a year and a half ago when, on a whim, I enrolled in an English Writing course. It was certainly a hard slog but it taught me so much about words, and they have now truly become my love affair.

I am a very sporadic writer. I get hit by inspiration from a hundred different things daily, but whether any of those ideas will end up in a finished product is rather unlikely! I defintely prefer poetry over prose, simply because I rarely have the patience to deal with prose when it decides not to listen to me. I am, however, currently working on a novel which I hope will eventually see the light of day—if it doesn't drive me mad, first!

As for myself away from writing, I am a Uni student studying English and International Relations. I don't yet know where I really want to go in life, but as long as my words hang in there for the journey, I'm sure things will work out fine.


2. How do you feel about dA as a literature community?

I'm sure most people say this, but I truly do adore the literature community of deviantART. It is bursting at the seams with wonderfully talented, inspirational, and kind people that both I, personally, and my writing would be lost without. dA's lit community is an absolutely invaluable resource for writers everywhere.

3. You're a relatively new writer here on dA, and you've already got a DD under your belt. What was that experience like?

I'm a relatively new writer off deviantART; my first Daily Deviation, Lion Heart, was actually one of the first creative prose pieces I'd ever written. At that point I wasn't at all confident in my writing—and even now it's always a shock to realise that people actually do enjoy my work. I had actually forgotten I'd even written my second DD, Simbelmynë, so you can imagine that surprise! I don't write for others, so it will always be wonderful to know that a piece of mine has struck a chord in someone else.


4. Would you like to tell us anything about the novel you're working on?
To be honest, I'm a little scared that if I give anything away, I'll lose the motivation to work on it... Silly, I know, but it's happened to me before! I have literally had these characters floating around in my head for years—I used to dream about them—but never felt that I had the capacity to write them into something tangible. I've always admired people who are able to do that and dedicate themselves to a larger body of work, so I have decided to simply bite the bullet—after all, writing is hard but, as Maya Angelou says, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."


5. What's the best advice you've ever received concerning writing?

My old writing teacher would probably murder me if he found out I'm not going to say "planning is essential!"... I'd be lying if I said I agreed. I really don't. Personally, I'm a downright awful planner, and I'm sure many other writers are in the same boat. I actually lost all enjoyment in writing for a while and was going to give up on it because I just couldn't plan and felt like a pretty awful writer for it. The trick is to learn what works for you as a writer. Not everyone is going to fit the same mould.

If I'm going to do any writing at all, I prefer to simply channel a bit of Hemingway and "sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Partly because most of my work is of a personal nature—albeit sometimes obscurely so—but punishing yourself because you feel you're not achieving what you set out to do with a piece, or feel pressured to do something else with it, is not how you achieve good writing. Always write for yourself, and I can just about guarantee that you will come out the other side with work that you're proud to call your own.

Poetry

O FevraleWitching hour, welcomed with a sigh,
bare-breasted and ink-stained in the night.
Half in love in this half-life half-light;
pisat O Fevrale navsnryd, dreaming
of the gods. Wanderer, today I died and
died again, and whispered prayers
to clasped hands… until the nestled
droplets fell away like sunrays at dusk;
and when moonrise came, I sang again.
"O Fevrale" by Concora


ApsaraFind me sunken into the
lotus field, bathing skin silvergreen,
waist-deep and pink
in sunset, and we will cry:
for three-faced elephants,
for rain,
for the dancers threading grace
between their fingertips—
until I dress in the heaviness,
a sarong of heat.
"Apsara" by Concora

SehnsuchtOctober again;
and the curtains billow
with broken glass echoes and
Mendelssohn's bride waltzing
to better times
(ein
zwei
drei)
She becomes the rain,
and breaks her own heart as the sound
drips
right through us.
"Sehnsucht" by Concora


CassiopeiaThe sickle moon
falls, and I blossom
henna red.
"Cassiopeia" by Concora




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