#Courtney peppernell poems tv

So I think it’s really cool to think that someone walks into Barnes & Noble and picks up Pillow Thoughts but then sitting on the shelf next to it is Edgar Allen Poe or Emily Dickinson and maybe they’ve never been exposed to poetry like that, but they pick it up and they think “I kinda like this too” so it’s bringing them together, connecting them, and I think that’s cool. Language evolves and changes over time and poets that wrote about love 50 years ago, well we’re still writing about love as well, we’re just speaking to our generation. I was saying to a reader (since she was asking what I thought about traditional poetry and this new kind of poetry we’re writing today), and to me, it’s kind of like, back then we had the same feelings and felt the same things, it was just written differently. The poetry we’re writing now is more of a gateway. I thought “I can’t believe I can have so much impact on someone, this is something I want to do” and a few years later I put together Chasing Paper Cranes and kind of went from there.ĬU: Yeah that’s amazing! It’s also so cool to hear that because one of the things I wanted us to talk about is that people can access writing in so many ways and you were able to do fanfiction on the internet and get this really positive reinforcement that gave you the spark.ĬP: Yeah I love that, and I think that’s why social media is so important in this day and age because there are so many platforms that connect people with all different kinds of writing and all different kinds of styles, which is really awesome. I had so many emails, so many messages from people saying how much they love the story and how much they connect with it. So I wrote this fanfiction called “The South Side of Anywhere” and it was about two characters from Glee and it turned into this story that so many people responded to.

#Courtney peppernell poems tv

Like I’d never heard of either of those, and this is going back a couple years now, but I investigated and I saw that fanfiction was something where people could write their own takes on movies or TV shows or bands or whatever and Glee was this show about singing. I was like “what is fanfiction and what is Glee”. The first taste of being an author and going down that road was that I had a blog for a couple years on Tumblr and someone wrote to me and asked if I could write a fanfiction about Glee. I can be kind of quiet and I guess withdrawn, but over the years writing has really helped me to come out of my shell and say the things I want to say. I’ve always loved writing and I’ve always liked writing short stories.

CU: You have written for a long time, since you were young, so can you tell me a little about that?ĬP: I started writing when I was young.