Twitterive: 'Twitter' + 'narrative'
This is a fictionalized exploration of my own disconnection with my immediate surroundings. I live on campus at Rowan and am surrounded by other students, extracurricular activities and various opportunities to socialize with human beings, but instead I choose to stay in my room, inside my own head. Where no one can get at me. Of course sometimes the outside world butts in, my roommate shuffling her things around, people talking loudly on the sidewalk outside my window, thunderous footsteps from the floor above. These noises shake me back to reality and make me ponder the difference between being alone, and being lonely.
The setting was inspired by a found poem that I wrote that's composed of ten different tweets. Since I don't interact with other people and since I do have to leave my room sometimes for food or class, my tweets were mostly about nature and the weather. That got me thinking about if human beings were wiped off the earth, nature would have a chance to show its lushness and beauty again. But nobody would be there to appreciate it, which is how my character Madelyn aka Ghost, came to be. She would see it.
The found poem is very whimsical and abstract and I wanted to continue that by making my Twitterive even more abstract then the poem. I didn’t want to set it in wintertime, but I thought it would be interesting to embody the stormy, unpredictableness of wintertime into a person, so my character is an albino with a lot of pent up anger. I also didn’t want to literally have trees throwing snowballs, it’s not like a Lord of the Rings Ent situation. But when you read that part of the story, hopefully you can see the connection.
So I present to you the story of a misunderstood girl who lives in a small town tucked away somewhere in the woods. Madelyn loves the town but she hates the people in it. If only they would go away, she thinks to herself....
This is a fictionalized exploration of my own disconnection with my immediate surroundings. I live on campus at Rowan and am surrounded by other students, extracurricular activities and various opportunities to socialize with human beings, but instead I choose to stay in my room, inside my own head. Where no one can get at me. Of course sometimes the outside world butts in, my roommate shuffling her things around, people talking loudly on the sidewalk outside my window, thunderous footsteps from the floor above. These noises shake me back to reality and make me ponder the difference between being alone, and being lonely.
The setting was inspired by a found poem that I wrote that's composed of ten different tweets. Since I don't interact with other people and since I do have to leave my room sometimes for food or class, my tweets were mostly about nature and the weather. That got me thinking about if human beings were wiped off the earth, nature would have a chance to show its lushness and beauty again. But nobody would be there to appreciate it, which is how my character Madelyn aka Ghost, came to be. She would see it.
The found poem is very whimsical and abstract and I wanted to continue that by making my Twitterive even more abstract then the poem. I didn’t want to set it in wintertime, but I thought it would be interesting to embody the stormy, unpredictableness of wintertime into a person, so my character is an albino with a lot of pent up anger. I also didn’t want to literally have trees throwing snowballs, it’s not like a Lord of the Rings Ent situation. But when you read that part of the story, hopefully you can see the connection.
So I present to you the story of a misunderstood girl who lives in a small town tucked away somewhere in the woods. Madelyn loves the town but she hates the people in it. If only they would go away, she thinks to herself....