https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb Made with charm en-us 2022-01-24 12:15:40 UTC 2022-01-25 09:18:55 UTC hello@padlet.com cewalker3 https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008619040 - the pressure to make her draft finished, as to lessen the likelihood of being rejected 
- she didn't make a lot of changes with the editors
- wrote essays defending her choices 
- "A lot of interesting conversations came out of it", was sort of "bridge-building exercise"
- got readers that she didn't know to give genuine feedback
- watched what was being sold and made she he was able to accurately describe her work and show that it had a place in the publishing world]]> 2022-01-24 12:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008619040 cewalker3 https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008621933 - GCSE English Teacher
- Taught her to translate the real world into fiction
- Inspired Natasha to analyze contemporary adult fiction 
- Also did A level English because of this teacher]]> 2022-01-24 12:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008621933 cewalker3 https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623090 - Poetry as having "an elegance similar to math"
- With poetry you cannot be wrong vs. with math you can 
- It's difficult with writing because you don't necessarily know why something works
"Be playful. Math is playful so are words" 
- Poetry and math both need constraints, and the elegance of figuring out how to do it within those constraints
- Writing is much more communal/casual than math/STEM
- Took first writing class in 2019, the same year she won London's Writer's Award
- Math background led to her ability to take time and think about the different ways/approaches in her writing]]> 2022-01-24 12:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623090 cewalker3 https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623286 - Black identity and its ties to pop culture and how that can be quickly dehumanizing 
- "mythologies as appropriated language" 
- Using the concept of mythology to look at the National Mythologies that have been taught and exist today
- erasing historical content. to make things look just like they've always been there
- the works she included were ones she felt like were things her character would have read
- Claudia Rankine's Citizen - played with form (including citations, definitions, appendices) which inspired some of the form in her work
"Before I was reading fiction, it was non-fiction"]]> 2022-01-24 12:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623286 cewalker3 https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623455 - the narrator acts as a lens 
- "satire of expectations of genre" 
- the boyfriend was supposed to get his name at his house, but instead he became "son" because that was most functional
- she wanted the narrator to fill the gaps, so she wrote the other characters first so that it would be really obvious where the gaps were 
"She fills the space they left behind" 
"narrator being a point we look out from, rather than an object we look at"
- no name for the narrator because she becomes more universal
- rach is "so eager she chopped off the end of her name" ]]> 2022-01-24 12:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623455 cewalker3 https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623834 - discontinuity in writing to emphasize the gaps
- use of figures because she is a math student, and that is how the character would process
- she was inspired by flash fiction and the importance of titles being meaningful 
- the humor makes the tone more conversational
"It's making quips that lets conversation flow" 
"The writing I'm reading is smartly ironic and are the people I enjoy talking to" 
- Italics show emphasis
- wanted the narrators arch to be steeping out of an object by the end into directing what the audience is seeing 
- "straddling the line between poetry and prose"
- uses style to "write instructions of what someone will see"]]> 2022-01-24 12:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008623834 https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008881972 - People often ask "why isn't it a friendly novel" 
- writing is a "relationship business" 
- wasn't a pleasant experience to write
- she became a writer because she already had ideas she wanted to extrapolate on 
- "I wanted to lean in to it not being alright"]]> 2022-01-24 14:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cewalker3/dfbhnwjdt08qbkxb/wish/2008881972