4/11/2023 0 Comments Ochitsubaki![]() The same applies for the rhythmic and tonal musicality of poetry and developing an ear for rhythm and tone in musical composition. In my mind, there is not much difference between the instinct for visual balance required for white space in poetry and the same instinct when it comes to design and aesthetic composition. And once I broke that first boundary, other boundaries started to break as well. When I traced my way back to the experimental hybrid work of my painful adolescence, I found incredible, shocking joy and relief. ![]() It took me up until last year, just after I turned 23 as the world burned, that I came to understand there was more to the world than what everyone had always said to me. It took me some time to unlearn that-not as long as it could have, thankfully-but longer than it should have. The university workshop taught me that my voice, my vision, and my audience didn’t matter: the writer was never permitted to speak during criticism. They told me that experimentation is largely undesirable, impossible to parse, and if everyone can’t relate to it, there’s something wrong with it. Those workshops were never designed for people like me. It basically required you to take all the levels of workshop available, and then some. Then I grew up and went to college for a degree in English, but I got accepted into an exclusive program for English majors that was called a sub-concentration, which required a 100-page creative writing thesis and a certain amount of creative writing credits. ![]() What my friends said about my work then is the same as what they say now: This makes me feel something, but I don’t know what it is. My first novel was a queer, dreamlike, and experimental poetry-prose hybrid in stream-of-consciousness form. When I turned fifteen, and my mind began to change in ways I couldn’t anticipate, I found myself drawn to experimental long-form prose. I started out as a writer when I was a child, dreaming of fantastical worlds I never did leave behind. As an independent experimental game developer, I do illustration, design, poetry, prose, orchestral composition, and just enough coding to glue it all together.
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