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Major: Creative Writing
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Title: “Red”; “Closet”; “Headlights”
Project Synopsis: Laura writes a collection of poems and flash fiction stories that reflect her personal experiences and inquiry into those of others.
Interview with Laura Hower
by Laurie Jacob
Laura has been writing fiction for years, even starting a book when she was fifteen. The current sophomore uses her writing to further explore her real-life experiences and the philosophies that guide her and others. Originally from the “Unsayable Town” of Wapakoneta, Ohio, home of “Luna,” the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum, she expresses a greater appreciation of her hometown now that she has finally left it.
She is also close with her family, whose experiences have likewise affected her work. One of her brothers, for example, is one of many Wapakonetans who have moved away only to return and is also a member of the LGBTQ community who brings the issues raised in her flash fiction “Closet” to a more personal level. For that piece, Laura stuck with two of her signature styles: a first-person perspective to “give a closer bond to the main character” and his or her struggles and a twist ending. (Spoiler alert!) While this story was meant for entertainment, there is also a message that “it’s about love; the gender thing doesn’t matter.”
Laura finds each exercise in writing to be an inquiry into different creative possibilities, the different motives that people have that could become the motives for her characters, and into her own perspectives. “Usually when you write, you aim to get better at it no matter what, the same with drawing and dancing and sports and stuff, and writing helps me kind of find out my actual views on things.” While both of the flash fiction stories included here began as writing prompts, Laura turned them on their heads and took them into directions of her own. Reading “Headlights,” she definitely fulfilled the requirement that there be interrogation, but there are multiple layers that take it a step further into an exploration of psychological reactions to events, even delving into the supernatural.
In general, she prefers fiction and fantasy, but “for some reason I kinda push towards theological stuff, though not religious,” as in her book that is still in progress, which focuses on the shift from life to death in Hell. “I get close with the idea of death because no one knows what happens after death, so I like making up things. When I was sixteen, my [other] brother died from a heart condition, who actually gets a cameo in it, so I become a lot closer to the subject.”
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Laura plans to continue writing, following her passion and encouraging others to do so: “Do what you feel is right. Write about things you believe in, maybe write from the perspective of someone you completely disagree with to get their perspective.” And, as she makes quite clear in her poem “Red,” consider others’ feedback but never let their misinterpretations (or over-interpretations) of your work discourage you from continuing. Follow the link below to see what she is all about!