Today I worked to capture the importance in unimportance and the unimportance in importance. For my images I revisited one of the filters I made yesterday out of junk I found in the bottom of my fabric closet. Here’s a picture of the filters:
The one I focused on today is the one on the top left. I love the effect the light hitting that plastic disc makes. It’s exciting how the small discarded bits of unimportance, glued together have become something of great importance to me.
2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
Today’s prompt is to write a customized poem. Customized means: modified to suit a particular individual or task. Since I am exploring the importance in unimportance and the unimportance in importance, I will have to modify this poem to fit me doing that.
Finding Importance in Unimportance
Among the detritus gathering on the floor I grabbed a fistful of the fallen and discarded: cheap costume boa feathers and a plastic disc fallen off of fabric given away because it shed plastic iridescent discs with white glue so old it came out clear I pressed these items together hoping in time they would adhere to a thin plastic lens filter And it took time, stole time, most of a morning, but not wasted time and not my important time, as I used that for other things And when these items of no importance fused and bonded sat upon my lens a universe of beauty exploded and in awe I explored bursting galaxies, dying and birthing stars I captured every one so all could admire this exaltation And this filter, my new favorite, a gift of lint must be carefully preserved locked away untouched, encased and saved for it holds creation's power that takes me to ecstasies
Today’s focus on finding the importance in unimportance and the unimportance in importance inspired a good look at my character arcs. The most important person to my main character will become the least, and the least will become the most. My main character’s world view will need to completely change for this to happen. Her wants and needs will be completely different by the end.
I’ll need to make sure I’ve shown her ideas about importance and unimportance at the beginning, and write scenes that show her questioning these ideas and then show how her new needs change her views on importance.
Since I’m writing a supernatural horror, in each of the moments she is afraid, the person she sees as most important will not be of help to her, and the person she finds least important will. She will come to doubt the importance of the one, and the unimportance of the other. And finally she will accept the unimportance of the first and value the importance of the other.
Over at EADeverell.com there’s a Character Change Worksheet to get us thinking about the internal and external changes in the character due to certain plot points. I’ll be going through this worksheet with my main character exploring her attitudes about importance and unimportance to help me brainstorm the scenes showing how she changes.
Experience Writing 