The Saturday Spotlight for September 14th, 2013

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Saturday Spotlight for September 14th, 2013


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Today's featured deviant is:
:star:haphazardmelody!:star:


Questions

 

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

Really, I'm just a girl who's floating through life at the moment, trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up (I'm 26), and using writing as an outlet. Everything I write is extremely personal, which sometimes bothers me because I feel that posting here forces me to really open myself up...and that's not something I do in my personal life, but again, it's an outlet for me, and I like to think that at least one person who reads any given poem of mine will be able to relate. I've shifted to writing almost entirely poetry in the last couple of years, mostly because I find it an easier way to express my feelings, although I do really enjoy writing prose and miss doing it. Prose, though, takes me a lot more time to develop and perfect, while I find that poetry takes less time to write and flows from me much more easily.

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

I've been a member of dA for eight years, and when I first joined, hardly anyone noticed my work, and I was mostly frustrated with the lack of feedback that I received. What I've discovered, though, is that you really get back what you give. I've become much more active in the past couple of years, joined groups, and this has really helped me to find people I enjoy associating with and who offer me lots of constructive criticism and just generally help me to grow as a writer. The literature community here is amazing - you just have to be active.

3. What is your writing process like?

Honestly, it varies. Sometimes I take a form I really want to use, and then try to find an idea, and go from there - that usually takes a few hours of rewriting and editing. (Tetractys and haiku generally take me between two and four hours to perfect.) Freewrites and free verse that I do take me about ten minutes, and I edit those for grammatical and spelling errors, then let it sit for about an hour before I come back and see if I want to make any additional changes. My shortest poems are the ones that take the longest because every word is extremely important, and those will take me up to a week before I'm satisfied with them. Prose, which I don't do very often anymore (and I really need to get back to that), takes me a really long time...weeks.

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

I feel like I've been most influenced by people on dA who write bluntly and honestly, including pieces of themselves in what they create; it has encouraged me to do the same, and I feel that my writing has improved dramatically ever since.

5. What advice would you give to a beginning writer?

This is something I really struggled with when I first joined dA: don't compare yourself to other people. Your style and your voice is your own. Try not to think in terms of who's better and who's worse than you are. It's not fair to yourself. And also...constructive criticism is not an attack, it's someone who not only found your work intriguing enough to read all the way through, but who also found a lot of potential in what you've done and is ready and willing to help you out - it's a compliment.





Poetry


CollisionWe work together
Not like peas in a pod
But like sunbeams on water
Violent
Beautiful
Blinding
And everything sinks to the bottom
With time
But fortunately
Not everything
Decays.

"Collision" by haphazardmelody


Mature Content


"Forge" by haphazardmelody



WhenI
ate my
breakfast and
stopped to ponder
when aspirations had stilled to daydreams.

"When" by haphazardmelody


my Corners are Sharpmy Corners are Sharp
i know you noticed this
the other night
when you came to bed
but could not sleep
with the constant stabbing in your
kneecaps
my Corners are Sharp
which i know you saw
two afternoons ago
when you touched my hand
but pulled back quickly
with your own hand bloodied and
torn
my Corners are Sharp
you told me this yesterday morning
when you came to me with those
tears in your eyes
as you told me you would love me
despite the
bruises

"my Corners are Sharp" by haphazardmelody




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