Georgeanne Casper: Week 4 Analysis

1.) What themes or concerns are you addressing in your response?
2.) What materials & processes did you use? Why?
3.) What did this limit/allow? Why?
4.) Choices? Why?
5.) What did you learn?

     I decided to try and write my own manifesto as my response. The themes I wanted to address are stigma against mental disorders, in this case, specifically anxiety and depression however, my piece, I believe, can go hand and hand with other disorders as well.
    As I am quite new to creative writing, the materials/processes I used were simply my experience, and looking at examples of modern day manifestos online as well as the assigned reading. I tried my best to incorporate an "outline" from each piece and pictures/posters I had seen online. I used these materials because I figured since my experience correlates 100% with the subject I chose, it would be easier to get my point across as well as voicing out what "needs to be heard."
    This unfortunately did limit my perspective because it did come from an insiders perspective of anxiety and depression. I tried my best to recall all the stigma I had heard, or all the suggestions I had been given from friends in their hopes to understand me or "cure" me of my disorders.
    The choices I made were to make more of a picture/poster rather than a straight forward writing. I did so because what really caught my eye during my research online were the inspirational posters. I loved the layout itself and wanted to create my own. I knew that creating a "poster" would allow my brain to expand beyond text fonts, sizes, colors, and added pictures. I added a picture of a colorful brain rather than a scientific drawing because that is my way of looking at a disorder, as something that you can create and mold into something beautiful, rather than let it consume you.
    I learned through this assignment how to go out of my comfort zone and really expand my new found interest in writing beyond just text. Although I had less of a poetic approach, I did learn new formats for my creative writing.