Week One!

Week one, I know I’m a tad bit late and I’m terribly sorry for it. Fifty words on the readings of this past week? Well, let’s get started then. I must say I’ve learned so much about poetry in this last week in class and these two chapters in the book we’ve read more than I’ve learned from K-12. I’ve never been big on poetry until I started writing my own in my junior year of high school for my creative writing class. My teacher tried to teach the basics of poetry and the classics but my class was unfortunately too rowdy to learn. I always considered poetry a different language, a completely foreign, annoying, sappy language I could never understand and always dreaded learning about in English. So, when it came to the first chapter and Koch stated that it was a different language and two different ones at that I was, “Finally! Someone understands me!” and “Great, something else to learn…”. Chapter two, truthfully, I could not understand let alone barely read. Music in poetry? I can see it being made into lyrics as a song, but the rhythms of words going up and down and similar sounds but not straight rhyming. That’s where I get completely lost and discombobulated.

On the side I have about a million different writings I’m working on; a novel-ish type that will probably never be completed, half written short stories, and all the poetry in the world. I don’t know exactly how many of each I have but I think that’s why I took this class; to really learn how to write, to hone in on this skill that I think I’m decent at and that I really like to do. I have all these poems and stories that I’d love to add to and give life to. I want to see my writing grow and expand into something I can be proud of.

Inspiration is very important to me. I always try to keep a pad of paper and pen with me everywhere because I never know when inspiration will strike. It could be a line in a song, a silly one-liner my sister has picked up, or a personal thought that’s been in my head for weeks that just hits me like a bolt and I have to write it down, jot some notes down so I can expand and hopefully write something awesome. I believe anything and everything can inspire someone, even the tiniest of things could set your world on fire.

P.S. I hope I did this right! J