Thursday, April 2 – Creative Writing is being continued after the short break we had do to the ending of the quarter. Again not many people have shown up for the meeting so we again read a short poem and made some comments on it. We focused mainly on the use of symbolism in the poem and how it affects the construction of the poem. This was very interesting to me because I had never really thought about how the mechanics of a poem or a story could affect the way it is structured and the style in which it is presented. It was a new way for me to look at writing and it was a new skill that I could consider using in my own writing.
Thursday, April 9 – Today in the Creative Writing meeting people finally began to show up and we almost had everyone there. We took the club picture for the year book and then a few people had to leave for other things. The remaining people in the meeting discussed what our plans would be for the few meetings we had left for the rest of the school year. We threw some ideas out like continuing with what we had been doing, stopping early, or trying something new like reading poems from outside the club. We decided to make the final decision after the upcoming break and we were reminded that we would not be meeting for the next to weeks because of it.
Thursday, April 30 – We are resuming Creative Writing club after the break we just had and we are going to decide what to do with the remaining time we have to meet for this school year. Today we discussed the possibility of a spring edition of the literary journal. We said that it could only be possible if enough people submitted work to be published in the book and if they were willing to revise their work a few times before handing in the final draft. I volunteered to try and get my short story in the journal because it did not make it in last time. Writing that story had caused me to become aware of the strengths I possessed as a writer and also the weaknesses and I was very willing to try and improve both of those.
Thursday, May 7 – Today we are beginning the preparations for trying to create the spring edition of the literary journal. We will start by recruiting writers for the journal and then we will see if we have enough material for the journal. We created an announcement to put in the announcements at school so that everyone will know they can submit their work if they want to. Next week we will decide if we have enough material to create the literary journal.
Thursday, May 14 – Today we are going to decide if we have enough material to create a second edition of the literary journal for the spring. We reviewed the material we had and we realized that there really wasn’t enough for us to put something together. Not enough people had submitted work so we decided that we try again next year and make a winter edition of the literary journal like we had done previously. We were disappointed that we could not do the journal but we did not let it get us down because there was always next year. We were then told that a professional poet was coming to the school next week to do a presentation on poetry and instead of meeting on Thursday we would meet on Friday of next week to see the presentation together and we were also told that it would be our last Creative Writing club meeting of the year.
Friday, May 22 – Today for Creative Writing the members of the club went to see the presentation on poetry by the professional poet who was visiting the school. The poet’s name was Greg Hischak and his presentation consisted of some of his own works which he read to us and some poetry exercises which were suppose to help stimulate our creative minds. I really enjoyed his poetry and I felt lucky to be able to hear him read them in the way he thought they should be read. His style of writing was really unique and not like the stereotypical poet which is why I think I really liked it. I also enjoyed the exercises he had us do because I felt like I learned a lot I didn’t know about writing poetry from them. They helped to show me that almost anything can sound like poetry and that it is not that hard to write but what’s hard is putting meaning behind the words you write and making them come to life. I felt like I learned a lot about writing from Greg’s presentation and it helped me realize some of my own strengths and weaknesses as a writer. One of the most important things I learned from his visit however was how to remain calm when reading or writing poetry because no poem and no one is perfect and as long as you are trying your best that is all that matters.
No comments:
Post a Comment