I've been trying to think of what to write for my second literacy narrative remix for a while now. It feels difficult to think of a good genre to use since I'm not all that into poetry, and many of our narratives cover a long period of time. Not to mention that since they are such personal pieces in the first place, it's hard not to see them as creative nonfiction already.
I honestly think I might just do poetry anyway because it seems like the easiest genre to work with. Prose just wouldn't seem to fit in doing a piece that jumps around so much and focuses on so many different times--even more so because a piece that tried to cover so much material would get really long really fast. It wouldn't feel right to write a short story about just one time in my literacy narrative because the whole narrative works together. It is supposed to show a synthesis of literacies, in which an original literacy led to me discovering and developing multiple others. Poetry allows for a condensation of these things, as well as a much looser notion of time and place, so I think that is the genre I will ultimately use.
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