Hybridity
2-minute freewrite
I haven’t had a parter to whom I have written love poems in nearly two decades, and I’ve never had a love poem written to me until recently. I woke up a few weeks ago to a pining poem written in a language I didn’t speak and puzzled over it for a while until giving up and plugging it into Google Translate.
2-minutes about a piece we’re having trouble with
I’ve been struggling with both pieces in progress, Marsh and Florilegium, and I’ve been blaming it on long COVID and all its associated symptoms, but I’m beginning to think it’s perhaps something broader, more integral. I cut down on one of my meds and lo, the words are coming again. Perhaps I can blame Echo, as well. Ey’re so full of words…
Brink
- Journal focusing on hybrid works, from mixed media to mixed form
- Themed volumes, but writers approach from a slant, interesting takes on it
- What hybridity means:
- Stories that look and feel different from traditional writing
- Not necessarily experimental, leaning on the story’s complications, can still ‘look’ like the form
- Work that teaches the reader how to read it, a co-work with the reader
- E.g: epistolary, diaristic, archival, catalogue
- Focus on play and freedom with the page
Return to piece we’re having trouble with
I like the idea of a diaristic approach to either Elevation or Margins. Make it more personal and immediate. That would probably be a good one for Margins, because it would keep the hybridity, yet make the quotes feel more breathless.