Creative Writing

Thursday, January 14 – Today in Creative Writing we had the return of a previous Creative Writing submission. One of the members who had submitted a poem about his sister’s struggle with a deadly disease submitted the same poem again this week. We took a few minutes to read trough the poem and gather our thoughts about it. We found that the poem had not been drastically altered but that there were a few subtle changes in some of the wording and some of the tenses and they seemed to make a very big difference. I commented on how I thought the poem flowed much more smoothly and how I thought the subject of the work could be more clearly understood. I also said that now that I had this understanding of the poem I really enjoyed it much more and realized what a good poem it was. Everyone else in the group seemed to feel the same way and we all agreed that the poem was much better.

Thursday 21 – Today there was no Creative Writing because of midterms.

Thursday 28 – Today I could not make it to Creative Writing because I had a doctor’s appointment during that time.

Thursday, February 4 – Today in Creative writing we got another very interesting submission. It was a cartoon which is not what we normally do in class because cartoons don’t usually involve much writing. However this cartoon was different because it had a lot of dialogue and the member who submitted it said that this was because it was part of a graphic novel which is a classification of cartoons that involves full and rich dialogue. I really enjoyed reading the submission because of its accompanying pictures. These illustrations allowed me to literally visualize what was happening in the story and I found that that helped me to understand and connect with the story better. I said that I thought it was very entertaining and that the only thing I would change is perhaps adding even more illustrations because that was my favorite part. All other members of the group enjoyed the cartoon as much as me and said they wanted to see more submissions like it.

Thursday, 11 – Today in Creative Writing we had a very good submission and I would definitely consider it one of my favorites. It was an interesting one because no one in the club had any idea what it was about, so much so that we didn't even attempt trying to guess. However we all loved it. It flowed so smoothly and the diction was so rich that it was like ear candy to read it out loud. It was audibly pleasing and it was the rhyme scheme and the meter and all the sounds of each word that made it that way. When we actually paid attention to the words however, none of us could figure out what they meant. I commented on how it was incredible that a poem could completely rely on its sound to be considered fantastic without ever understanding the meaning. We all agreed that it must ave been a difficult poem to write and we were all impressed.