Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite stories and I have always been deeply interested in the idea that the story is an allegory for growing up. There is so much that a reader can take away from the brilliant work. Here I wanted to take a piece of Alice in Wonderland and hit the nail on the head kind of. So I blacked out most of the words and tried to keep a story that follows the feeling of growing up and the idea of the unknowingness of it all. In your adolescence and younger years, all you have in time and yet it feels like there is no perfect way to spend it. That is what I hope readers get from this blackout poem. My creative writing process was simple here. I first picked a story mostly at random. I knew that the end point was more important than where I started. I just needed to start. I thought about what made this novel special to me and then I started underlining words on the page to make up a story. Then I went through and blacked everything else out.
