In analyzing my own writing I can see whether the conventions of form and genre are well enough established and hopefully, I can find any holes to find a way to better adjust my story. Syllogistic progressive form- the prologue creates the question in the reader's mind, who was being abused? This creates the question that will propel the reader through to uncover the mystery of the story. |
... “Child, that was your sacrifice, martyr’s blood,” his hand reached out for my shoulder, “You understand, I don’t like it any more than you do. But we must sacrifice. It is my father’s way that you will bleed, so that you can be born again with me in his kingdom.” I nodded. I didn't want to feel pain, but I knew Pastor was magic. I had seen his magic. “I understand,” I said, my voice, a hoarse whisper, thrusted through the pain. My initiation to Soldiers of God had begun. Qualitative progressive form- The aesthetic of the prologue is creepy. It is purposefully meant to be off-putting. The nature of the work itself is to feel trapped, like the child by their circumstances. Scar the "bad girl" in a conversation with CC the outsider: “I’m not trapped!” I said. (Scar) But I am. Trapped, trapped, trapped. “So you chose it then?” she asked.(CC) “Chose what?” I said. “To sit behind that fence, following their rules and wearing that terrible jumper,” she pulled a cigarette out “No more than you chose to be trapped out there, with your belly poking out of your shirt, following that bus to your own kind of prison with its own set of stupid rules,” I said. I have attempted to trap the reader by inflicting an "initiation" ie. Prologue that will render them emotionally unstable to continue reading. So that they two will be disoriented by the writerly entrapment. |
Repetitive form
I use a reflective metaphor within the text. Even the title "Scarlet Splinter" is referential of a broken glass. A splintering of the whole creates multiple fascism. In the example below I am using the reflective metaphor for Scar and Lettie to converse while looking upon Lettie's love interest Peter Culver.
I use a reflective metaphor within the text. Even the title "Scarlet Splinter" is referential of a broken glass. A splintering of the whole creates multiple fascism. In the example below I am using the reflective metaphor for Scar and Lettie to converse while looking upon Lettie's love interest Peter Culver.
"’Cause looking out the window I can tell it’s the kind of night for deer, they want to frolic, charmed by the lights they never see the Mac truck coming. You’ll be run over by a Mac and believe me, I just ain’t in the mood to get road kill on my shoes,” she said. He likes me, he wouldn’t hurt me, I’m special, I’m different, I’m not like her. |
The repetitive form of reflection hints at a personal reflective moment. Which above you can see leads Lettie to actually have emotionally reflective moments.
Conventional Form
The lack of innocence and Rape Culture of society create a recurrent situation that continually needs to be addressed. The stylistic features include heavy imagery, strong sensory details and contradiction between the appearances of things and the actual practice of things. Appearing kind rather than being kind, appearing righteous, rather than being righteous. The principle that organizes form is the message of complication and introspection.
Minor Incidental Forms
"metaphor, paradox, disclosure, reversal, contraction, expansion, bathos, apostrophe, series, chiasmus"
Simile – A comparison which uses like or as
Example- Here sex and god are like peanut butter and jelly; you almost always find them smashed up together between two slices of white bread.
Metaphor- what is a metaphor? A comparison of two thinks without using like or as.
Example- My throat was a pill taken without water.
Paradox-A contradiction statement- When a statement seems to contradict itself or is absurd, but also holds a truth
“I was never a child, you never allowed that, I was too busy taking care of you.” Lettie.
The lack of innocence and Rape Culture of society create a recurrent situation that continually needs to be addressed. The stylistic features include heavy imagery, strong sensory details and contradiction between the appearances of things and the actual practice of things. Appearing kind rather than being kind, appearing righteous, rather than being righteous. The principle that organizes form is the message of complication and introspection.
Minor Incidental Forms
"metaphor, paradox, disclosure, reversal, contraction, expansion, bathos, apostrophe, series, chiasmus"
Simile – A comparison which uses like or as
Example- Here sex and god are like peanut butter and jelly; you almost always find them smashed up together between two slices of white bread.
Metaphor- what is a metaphor? A comparison of two thinks without using like or as.
Example- My throat was a pill taken without water.
Paradox-A contradiction statement- When a statement seems to contradict itself or is absurd, but also holds a truth
“I was never a child, you never allowed that, I was too busy taking care of you.” Lettie.