"Imagine a life so flawed it flows with devestating perfection. First, picture the sea. I want you to be its soul, the heart in the waves. The seaweed are columns of tangled, complex slime like bitter emotions overthought beyond all simple recognition. Every space is filled with thoughts: delicate, posinious dreams scaled like a snake, swallowing a mouse, digesting precious life in one bite. Letters strangling other letters in the misguided attempt to form words."
I enjoy exercises where we are supposed to rewrite the work of another author because not only does it allow you to express yourself, it lets you explore the words of the author while being creative.
You mimicked Kingsolver's style quite accurately. The way she used opposing ideas, stringing them together and by building from the bottom up.
ReplyDeleteAs for rewriting the work of another author it makes me feel as if we are confined to certain way and cannot express one's words as accurately as you intend to.
Furzan A.
I love these types of works because it gives me hope when there feels like none
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