Saturday Spotlight for July/13/2013

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Artists will be featured in a special news article every Saturday. Major points to SilverInkblot and LionesseRampant for doing the hard work and research that goes into these articles!  

Today's featured deviant is:
solivagants!

Questions

 

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

Well, I've been interested in writing ever since I was a little kid. Like, when I was eight or nine I would spend hours writing short stories in my room, and I guess as I grew up I just continued to write. Though recently I've moved a bit off from fiction writing (like stories and such) and more into poetry. I just remember being on tumblr and reading poetry someone had posted and I was like yeah, I definitely want to give this a shot.

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

I feel like dA has a pretty great literature community. A lot of websites focus more on artwork like paintings and drawings, but deviantart has so many groups for writers to join and get feedback on their writing. As a whole, I think the dA literature community is great, and will hopefully continue to expand.

3. Are there any authors that have influenced your work?

I don't know if you could say "influenced", but a couple poets that I like are Pablo Neruda and E.E. Cummings.

4. What do you consider to be your highest literary accomplishment?

I'm not sure if I have a highest accomplishment in the traditional way, but I've never been very comfortable sharing my writing with anyone except a couple really close friends, so I think just posting things and actually showing people what I write is a more personal accomplishment.

5. Have you ever written a piece that was "difficult?" Whether because it wasn't ready to be written or something too personal to write about? How do you deal with writing something like that?

Yeah, multiple times. Especially after a really bad day I'll try writing and it'll all be way too personal and difficult to write in a way that makes sense. My notebook is full of really personal stuff that I couldn't finish, honestly. But I think the only way to really get past the uncomfortable part of it is to try and maybe distance yourself from it a bit? And then maybe return too it after a while, or just try and plow through it and fix it afterwards. But yeah, I think most writers face that.

Poetry

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"the cons of summer" by solivagants


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"things you probably don't know" by solivagants


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"ghost girl" by solivagants


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"and i don't wanna die" by solivagants




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