This week we started out finishing up the literary journal presentations and then went straight into workshop on Wednesday. This workshop was very different from the last one. The first one I was in a very talkative group but the second group was very quiet and workshop was not as helpful. The feedback on paper was helpful, but there was no discussion so it was much harder to deduce my fellow group member’s feelings about my piece of writing.
This week made me concentrate and think more about my revision process and what revising means to me overall. It is not always the easiest thing to do, but once you get the hang of revising your own work, it starts to get a little easier every time you do it. I also started to think about the class literary journals and what exactly I would like them to look like and contain. The creative juices were seriously flowing and I am seriously considering submitting some work into the IUSB Analecta for this year.
Inspiration seems to be coming very easy to me right now. I think it’s because I am keeping in mind what some famous person once said about “You should write what you know.” I tend to try to make my poems and short stories as close to real experiences and stories that I have heard or experienced in real life. I tend to write a lot about my parents. I think they led very interesting lives growing up and they have so many fascinating stories that I love to use those as good material for writing in this class. I definitely have no shortage of inspiration.
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