Me, Habitus and the content I create
For me I feel habitus is the way interact with the world around myself and as a writer I perceive this to be how I present the worlds I write about in my stories. Further more i believe it is the way I feel I have to act everyday. It's engrained in the everyday routines and and promises we keep not only to others but to ourselves and the world around us.
It is the me. The me that wakes up in the morning. The me who checks his phone, the me who wishes to go back to sleep. The me who leaves for the train 14 minutes before it's on the platform so I have enough time.The me who would rather sit in the luggage rack then sit beside someone, just because I don't wanna bother someone.
My writer habitus is really centred on stories that feature young people (aged 16-22) and how they go through their everyday lives. The reason why this Is what I write about is because I think I am trying to fill a void and create content that younger me really needed. I also like creating content that features queer characters as it's the content I wish there was more of.
Most of the content I create seems to be set in this odd sort of cultural void where I just completely avoid stating the setting unless it's necessary to the story. To an extent this probably takes away from my creative fiction and poetry as it makes the work sentient from the world around it.
I remember one of my lecturers last year referring to a similar setting like void as 'Tv Land', where stories live unconstrained by the real world even if they happen to making statements about the current state of the world. (See opening episode of The Good Fight Season 1. It's a cold open of Dianne Lockhart watching Donald trumps Presidential inauguration with total resonant defeat. She's shocked he actually won the election.)
I think with the fiction I write I avoid stating a setting past a city or town because choosing a setting means I am limited to the constraints of the domain unless i set it in a fictional town which seems to removed from reality.
With my poetry I think I avoid stating a setting past a place because I want to make the work relatable from someone else's point of view. Some of my work as really been simplistic, similar to Instagram poetry which at times can be very subjective and vague though I find these pieces are very approachable for those who feel excluded from poetry because the language is sometimes a barrier for people who prefer more literal readings.
I honestly believe the only way someones habitus as a writer but also as a person is only able to be restructured by significant changes in the the individuals life. It is only after such changes do we have the understanding to adjust and realise how we now place in the world around us. Such changes i feel that might be a catalyst for a restructured habitus would be events like losing a loved one, coming out, entering a relationship, joining a new community, a traumatic event, moving house and moving countries. I also think there's a small chance that the content we consume also has an effect on us so changing that content may have some effect on us but It wouldn't be as significant as an event in our lives because most of the time we have no choice with the events that come up over the course of our lives.
Habitus is us, no matter what us has been through, has felt or is currently in the midst of. Our habitus is constantly changing of it's own accord and we have little control over which way it changes.
It is the me. The me that wakes up in the morning. The me who checks his phone, the me who wishes to go back to sleep. The me who leaves for the train 14 minutes before it's on the platform so I have enough time.The me who would rather sit in the luggage rack then sit beside someone, just because I don't wanna bother someone.
My writer habitus is really centred on stories that feature young people (aged 16-22) and how they go through their everyday lives. The reason why this Is what I write about is because I think I am trying to fill a void and create content that younger me really needed. I also like creating content that features queer characters as it's the content I wish there was more of.
Most of the content I create seems to be set in this odd sort of cultural void where I just completely avoid stating the setting unless it's necessary to the story. To an extent this probably takes away from my creative fiction and poetry as it makes the work sentient from the world around it.
I remember one of my lecturers last year referring to a similar setting like void as 'Tv Land', where stories live unconstrained by the real world even if they happen to making statements about the current state of the world. (See opening episode of The Good Fight Season 1. It's a cold open of Dianne Lockhart watching Donald trumps Presidential inauguration with total resonant defeat. She's shocked he actually won the election.)
I think with the fiction I write I avoid stating a setting past a city or town because choosing a setting means I am limited to the constraints of the domain unless i set it in a fictional town which seems to removed from reality.
With my poetry I think I avoid stating a setting past a place because I want to make the work relatable from someone else's point of view. Some of my work as really been simplistic, similar to Instagram poetry which at times can be very subjective and vague though I find these pieces are very approachable for those who feel excluded from poetry because the language is sometimes a barrier for people who prefer more literal readings.
I honestly believe the only way someones habitus as a writer but also as a person is only able to be restructured by significant changes in the the individuals life. It is only after such changes do we have the understanding to adjust and realise how we now place in the world around us. Such changes i feel that might be a catalyst for a restructured habitus would be events like losing a loved one, coming out, entering a relationship, joining a new community, a traumatic event, moving house and moving countries. I also think there's a small chance that the content we consume also has an effect on us so changing that content may have some effect on us but It wouldn't be as significant as an event in our lives because most of the time we have no choice with the events that come up over the course of our lives.
Habitus is us, no matter what us has been through, has felt or is currently in the midst of. Our habitus is constantly changing of it's own accord and we have little control over which way it changes.
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