BRIEF 1
I have decided to use visual design (Wix) for my website, simply because I am interested in visual design. Wix seems a perfect website for me as I want to develop my designing skills. I have always wanted to create and develop a fashion or photography website.
The topic I have picked is Creative Writing through English and Polynesian literature. I will learn about and improve my writing skills and my understanding of Western and Pacific literature. I am currently taking a double major in Creative Writing and English and Media; A Pacific reader is one of the papers I am taking this semester. This will be a great opportunity for me to improve my writing skills and critical thinking. Last year, I took a creative writing introduction paper as well as Reading New Zealand. Reading New Zealand is a similar paper to A Pacific reader. These two papers both encourage reading Polynesian literature then ask for a critical or creative response. But I failed to approach them both. I have been trying to analyze the literature instead of creating my own creative response, however, my analyzing skills are not as strong as I would like. This made me think, 'what if I used my creative skills instead?' However, I have yet to find a piece of Pacific literature that has inspired a creative response. So, I want to look at how other authors of literature can inspire or influence my writing. I have never actually recorded the reflections of my writing. The way I think and the way I write is very important, so I might improve my writing skills if I could record the reflections and understand what went wrong and what I can improve.
I think I will copy and paste some of my own analysis of Pacific literature. Then I can write about the reflections of how I tried to approach the analysis and how I can respond to it creatively. The reflection can be helpful for me to improve my future posts and later on the writings or the reflections might change to show the progress of improvement. I think I will probably post what I learned in the class as the reflection as well. I can create my own perspective of writing or thinking. The posts will be different every week depends on what I am more attracted to write about. I will post the analysis of one piece of literature such as a poem and the reflection of what I learned and why I wrote it every week. And then I will post my creative responses to my analysis of Pacific literature. The reflections of the creative response could be where my inspiration came from or what my writing techniques can be used in the writing.
The web-based resources that I might use should be Wikipedia or some analysis of the literature that I need to read, then I will find out some history or what I have missed out. It will help me to define my own analysis of literature. On the other hand, the online resources such as a movie or TV show might also apply in my work as well. This could be an inspiration to start my writing. The movie, TV show or a book can be the primary inspiration if I need to apply the resources. The reflection each week should not be the same and the reflection can be improved as well. Once the reflection improved, my way of thinking can be changed and improved. This should be able to help me to improve my writing skills and help me to try a different angle of seeing and thinking. It is hard to have a specific and flawless plan in my head, but I think I do have a framework in my mind like I will read and analyze people’s writing for a week then I will write my own work next week. Then see how other author’s work had influenced me or it had not. The reflections can be something about how people influence me to write or something about how people had not influenced me but I figure out a way to define my creative writing.
The theories and perspectives will be coming from the teacher or certain author’s work. I will try to understand and apply it in my work or I might not agree with their theories and perspectives then create my own theories and perspectives. Then I can compare whether my own theories are suitable for my writing or other people’s theories. I may combine my theories and perspectives with others as well. It is highly depended on how I approach it. The theories and perspectives from others may apply in the reflections, like how I tried to approach it but failed or succeeded.
This could also be a reflection in my blogger. I can also post my photographs for a creative response after what the literature inspires me to take certain photographs. This could be my reflection as well. Nevertheless, not only the photographs can be my medium, the video that I make could be my medium as well. I want to make my website more interesting and people can appeal to rather than just multiple pictures without some explanations or deep writing or tons of readings without imagery. I personally love photographs and videos. I think I will try to approach it as my creative response.