Work- Shopping

This week we discussed some of the different literary journals that have been created. There seems to be a variety of literary journals that contain many images, ideas, and themes that help create its aesthetic. In addition to being introduced to the journals, we began work-shopping and met for the first time in small groups to workshop. It was a great experience that helped spur ideas and generate great insight!

After work-shopping this week and being made to read “22 Revision Ideas”, a lot of different ways to revise my work are starting to take hold in my mind. I really enjoyed work-shopping this week. It has been by far my favorite thing we’ve done in class this semester because it helped generate and produce great insight into my work. I also really enjoyed seeing what other people have been working on and producing. It seems as though we have some really great poets out there. I loved all the different themes and writings that people came up with and decided to share. Also, I feel like in critiquing others people work, it helped me realize some of the mistakes I’ve made in my own writing or ideas that I could use. For example, purposeful enjambment that helps intensify or reinforce the poem. When I go back to revise my poetry, I hope to use some of the ideas that were talked about in our small group.

Writing has always been something that I have enjoyed doing on a regular basis. I love language and how it can be used to covey meaning and articulate thoughts for other people to grasp. In thinking about the different ways that we can connect with other people, writing seems to be most intimate. Not only is a person able to read and visual your work in words, but also those words can be verbalized and shared. By reading another author’s work, the reader is able to in some ways enter the mind of the writer and gain entry into their mode and see their feeling. This allows us to connect not only with their work in ideas, but with their writing design to provide stimulation.