Genre and writing

What I have learned about genre and writing from this class is that with each new genre you have to take your base writing style and let it be a cat. A cat has many forms, the long skinny stretch, the fat blob, the almost liquid state of fitting in that small box that seemed impossible it get into. You have to determine what kind of cat it needs to be and let it become that. For this particular genre of radio essay, I had fun learning new ways of writing. I write poetry usually, specifically poetry that is meant to be read out loud. I play with sound all the time, but usually just the sound of words. It was really nice to have a chance to play with sound in other ways as well. Where I didn't need to write out what a melancholy piano would sound because I could just use it to inform the piece instead as a background sound.
experimenting with layers of sound and finding external sounds to fit into the words I was writing was a challenge but a fun change of pace that really made this class a lot of fun. And I think ultimately helped me grow as a writer. Because when recording the lines that sound sophisticated when reading or really lyrical on the page aren't always good out loud. It was a nice wake up call to think about the forced nature of phrases when in the context of this type of story telling. I will definitely take a lot of things I have learned from this to help me better my writing in the future.