I have recently read an Ellen Hopkins book that has drastically influenced me in ways that I cannot even begin to describe. I have thought for a long time about doing something new with my YA writing, trying to find my voice. Ellen Hopkins has helped me tremendously. I used to love writing poetry, and I was pretty good at it though my stuff was pretty dark. When I read her book Crank, I thought that I might try something similar. What is in this blog is the first page of a novel that I am revising called Fall of Knight. I wrote the story one way and was not happy with it. Now I am experimenting. Please read page one below and tell me what you think. This is very important to me.
Electro Convulsive Therapy
Is much more
humane
say the men in their
white
coats with their purring
voices
but I still hear mad
whispering
like bugs
skittering
beyond walls
fuzzy
with age.
He cannot hear me
over
the buzzing
current
disjointed
but i
won't stop
being there
for him
when he listens
again.
Note: This novel is about a mentally ill teenager who faces constant bullying. It is not a happy story.
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