Writing Reflection #8

Newspaper Blackout poetry was by far the best type of writing we have done in this class so far. I found my mind working the best while choosing words that I thought would be interesting for my peom. The challenge of this was making sense of everything once I had selected the words of phrases that I found interesting. Another challenging thing was finding little connecting words to piece together the interesting phrases into a sentence or line of the poem. The unique thing about this style of writing was that the words were already given to you, you just had to select which ones you want and which order they went in. I prefer this over other styles of writing we have done because there is less for my mind to wander on. I don't have to think of the entire chunk of writing myself, I just have to rearrange it. I learned that I can be a pretty creative writer and thinker when I actually focus on the task at hand. I'm not saying I can't be successful with other styles of writing but I found this easier to focus on for some reason. It was actually kind of fun instead of pure work the whole time. I would much rather do this type of poetry than any other poetry because other poetry isn't this fun. Props to Austin Kleon for keeping things interesting. Done another reflection, seeeee yaaa.