Far more valuable than anything I’ve created during this fellowship are the skills I’ve developed through practice and struggle. Since the fellowship began, I’ve started and completed my largest creative project to date. This fact alone shouldn’t go unappreciated. The lengthier the project, the more it requires of your personal concentration and commitment. I practiced…
Tag: Creative Writing
Networks in Progress
My project mentor, Dr. Steven LeMieux, has been endlessly supportive over the past two semesters. Not only has he been an invaluable source of guidance when I’m forced to make difficult creative decisions, but he has been genuinely, endlessly excited about the development of my project, which is more than I could have ever asked…
Making Progress: Prototypes
My work on The Counsel in The Cave has been about understanding what the story is meant to be, and how to bring that story to life, just as much as it has been about writing and programming the story itself. When I started writing this summer, I thought I had an accurate idea of…
My Cohort: Common Creativity
Since diving into my project, I’ve found the perspectives of other students engaged in creative work to be enlightening. In live, biweekly meetings and online, forum-style project updates, I’ve gained insight into my own creative process by listening to my peers discuss their own work. I suspect this is true, not despite the diversity of…
The Counsel in The Cave
Hi there! My name is Josh Fratis and I’m excited to be a part of the 2022 Creative Arts Fellowship! As part of the fellowship, I’m hard at work creating The Counsel in The Cave, a piece of magical realist interactive fiction about storytelling, graduating, and being lost. Interactive fiction is a style of storytelling…
Words Left Said
Throughout this summer, I’ve come to understand that research and scholarly work are not exclusively for people in STEM fields. When I used to think of research, I would picture students working in a lab, testing on animals, or dissecting specimens. However, both my project this summer and many of the other fellows’ projects have…
How to Talk About the Way Others Talk
An aspect of my project that I value deeply is its accessibility to the general public. Since I am writing descriptive short fiction stories, I hope it will be easy for my readers to visualize and understand both what instances of linguistic discrimination look like and what the consequences of that discrimination are. Additionally, despite…
An Assembly of Perspectives
Something I have enjoyed immensely so far during my Brackenridge experience is learning about each fellow’s approach to “research.” Whether it is testing on rats, producing a podcast, or scanning through archives, it seems each student is considering a different way to solve a problem and present findings. As the summer continues, I hope to…
On Language Informing Writing
Hi everyone! I’m Dionna and I’m super excited to be part of the Brackenridge community of scholars this summer. I’m a rising senior double majoring in Communication Rhetoric and Linguistics with a minor in French. I’m very passionate about writing, and have previously worked as a journalist for a local Pittsburgh newspaper, won contests for…