Author Archives: abbygraceantici

Through the use of concrete details, setting can be a very influential aspect of creative writing. Even if a setting could be perceived as “usual” or “boring”, it can be made interesting and important if described concretely. Setting allows the reader to jump into the scene alongside the characters and experience their surroundings with them.Continue reading ““Setting””

When I was a child, I thought she was a witch. I was not a mean child, I was simply prone to believing what I saw with my own two eyes, and what I saw told me that my great aunt was a witch. She lived in a tumble down shack she built mostly byContinue reading “Characterization”

The voice of an author is centered around how they express themselves throughout their body of work via word choice, syntax, imagery, idiom, rhythm, and range. Simply, an author’s voice is how they would sound if they were speaking to you instead of writing. The author’s voice can also be represented tangentially through the personaContinue reading “Voice, As I Understand It”

She was his dream and he was her dream, but like all dreams, they cannot last forever. Everyone must eventually wake up and meet the blinding sunlight of morning, you can try to shade your eyes, but that won’t stop the sting. Chase’s stained t-shirts and jeans sit above his muddy boots and beside herContinue reading “In class writing: 1/22/20”

The salt spray whips through my hair as I grow closer, closer, closer The land becomes one with the horizon as I move further, further, further The sea calls me like an old friend calling the landline in your childhood home because they thought of you and that is the first number they remembered SoContinue reading “Imaginative Writing”

“Excuse me, that is my seat,” said the pink woman with the peacock feathers sticking out of her oddly shaped hat. She was now a rather large woman and her ballooning figure was highlighted by her ill fitting church suit that reeked of money so fake it must’ve come from a monopoly game. The suitContinue reading “Concrete, Significant Details”

The chicken factory reeks of shit… or maybe chicken guts? Conflicted by the smell of bread being backed for you, me, … us It’s all one block off from the river where the kids all laugh and play Nose-blind to their hometown’s smell in Batesville, AR USA

My favorite genre of creative writing is poetry. I grew up listening to my mother read Shel Silverstein poems to my brother and I as though they were bedtime stories. I wrote a considerable amount of poetry in my AP Literature class in high school. One of these poems was even published. However, I merelyContinue reading “I Write”