Friday, September 19, 2008
Retrospective - Writing on Paper
The pen has a suffocating feel between my fingers. I'm writing quickly but my hand resembles a fist. My black nails look ready to attack the white sheet. As my nails pass, the black ink shimmers darkly, a dark invasion in the magical colorful field of whites, blues, and pinks. The words leave a tattoo like imprint on the paper that can never be erased. The bright as a light pink margins trap the dark words in a pretty package waiting to be opened and let its contents fly. As the black ink turned into words multiply within the page there is a leaf rustling sound as my hand slides on the paper. The notebook begins to give a slightly mouse like squeak as the writing becomes more intense. Ink has also gotten on my arm. The small black jagged lines resemble scars pulsating with pungent black blood instead of the natural red. A scene from a horror movie is taking place within this formerly pure sanctuary. The lines within the paper become less and less; the words are beginning to feel suffocated. It's almost the end. The most beautiful crime has been committed.
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Patricia, I love how you compare writing on the blank paper to that of a horror movie. The last words " the most beautiful crime has been committed" are powerful. These words struck me because the description in a whole is beautiful, yet morbid, representing an ironical twist. I enjoyed the creativity of this piece.
Wow, Patricia, this is so dramatic. Is writing such a violent act, do you think? A case of making cuts with your pen and spurting blood-ink everywhere? It brings up a lot of interesting ideas. What I especially like here, though, is how colourful it is. Normally one thinks of a page as white and the ink as black, but here there is white, pink, blue, red... it sounds like an explosion of colour. Nice work.
I agree with Maria, the last line really stuck out to me too. I like how you express how writing can me compiled of mixed emotions. I like how you used a horror movie as a metaphor for writing. This piece really shows the struggle that one has while writing something. I really liked this piece, good job.
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