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"Anyway, Here's Wonderwall: Discussions on Creative Writing, Memory, Queerness, and Worldbuilding in Ten Thousand Silver Spoons Item Info
- Title:
- "Anyway, Here's Wonderwall: Discussions on Creative Writing, Memory, Queerness, and Worldbuilding in Ten Thousand Silver Spoons
- Creator:
- Burch, Ruby
- Date Created:
- 2024-05
- Description:
- Introduction: "I love writing about Nevada. It’s hilarious. I live in a weird place, and I have the pleasure of telling weird stories. Playing on ghost town playgrounds, coming up with names for brothels on eight-hour car-rides (I’ll never forget the one we came up with for my mother: Michelle’s Mischievous Mistresses). Every town in Nevada looks similar. Drive down Boulder Highway in the middle of the day, between Warm Springs and Russell, and the horizon line becomes indiscernible from Fallon’s, Tonopah’s, Beatty’s. There are pieces of Vegas that still look like Pahrump. I knew I wanted to complete an Honors Thesis in sophomore year. I had no clue what I wanted to write— all I knew was that I wanted to write something creative. It wasn’t long, between lengthy drives up and down my state that I’d come up with the concept for Ten Thousand Silver Spoons— I wanted to write about the boom and bust I’d seen in stereo again and again through my travels. My state was in a constant state of after, and I wanted to write what I saw. In this critical piece, I want to discuss the process work I did to get to the point where we are now with the manuscript. . . ."
- Subjects:
- creative writing writing trauma memory Robert Olen Butler
- Methods:
- creative writing
- Location:
- Tonopah
- Latitude:
- 38.06882266
- Longitude:
- -117.2257423
- Language:
- English
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- ""Anyway, Here's Wonderwall: Discussions on Creative Writing, Memory, Queerness, and Worldbuilding in Ten Thousand Silver Spoons", English Honors Thesis Repository, Nevada State University
- Reference Link:
- https://nevada-state-english.github.io/nsu-english-thesis/items/ht015.html