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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen
I'm surprised I haven't mentioned my love of writing on this thread, especially since it is such a defining part of who I am. Plus, I consider Stevie Nicks my catalyst, the writer who showed me the written word's capacity to not only emotionally sway a reader but also to change him or her. I have very poor confidence in my abilities as a writer, seeing myself as incompetent in some form throughout every piece I write.
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Based on these poems & prose, I say you are an absolutely marvelous writer, & far superior to Stevie Nicks, as far as I'm concerned. In "Old Habits Die Hard," for example, the multiple layers of meaning in the line "and the Souls of my feet far in hell" outdistance in complexity & reverberative impact anything Stevie Nicks ever wrote. And you're only in your late teens.
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I'm hoping to be a creative writing major in college. My top choice is currently Kenyon College in Gambier, OH but I might list all of my top schools in a future post.
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Some of these excerpts remind me of Sandra Macpherson. Have you read her poetry? I audited a creative writing course she taught at U.C. Davis many years ago.