Hybrid Writing
Posted on April 28, 2008
Filed Under Writing
The concept of hybrid writing is something that I’ve been fascinated with for years…and continue to work on being successful at. I was introduced to this when I was getting a degree in Creative Writing from a very…contemporary school.
While I was there, I was introduced to a person named Michelle Ellseworth. (Check her out on the web if you have a chance). Before her, I truly believed that writing was just that… writing. But, she has fallen in a line of a wide variety of other authors and contemporaries who are saying writing can be more than just that.
Hybrid writing is just that. You take different forms of whatever it is you want to do and smash them together…of course with some craft. For those who want to stick in the genre of writing - poetry mixed with prose mixed with essays or screen plays. For those that want to go outside of that - try music mixed with writing mixed with dance mixed with technology or science - mixed with just about anything you want.
My favorite quote by her is paraphrased like this. Writing and art is an entire world. When you are there, you don’t have to stick with just one. You have the ability to explore and play in all of the neighborhoods. Another favorite by her is that for some of us, working in one medium doesn’t allow us to express ourselves enough. It takes more than one expression to truly get across the point we want.
So, the next time you start practicing your ability to write, try a little hybrid. It will open up new worlds and new possibilities to what you are doing.
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