Creative class

today. Walking into the classroom of my last high school English class, I distinctly remember the musty smell of teenage stress and overpriced Gucci perfume. I straightened out my blue suit shirt and said to myself “I am going to get an A in this class.” I sat by my ramen-loving friend in the back left corner of the room, opened my pink sparkly binder, and began imagining how fun it would be to read The Great Gatsby. However, as the class started and the annoying jeopardy school bell rang in my…

Creative Writing Majors write critical analyses of books, which is also something that we do in DC American Literature. These analyses could be about the novel’s theme, symbolism or figurative language the novel uses or an analysis of one of the main characters and their motives. Creative Writing Majors also continue to work their novels, short stories, and poems that could possibly be as famous as the literature we’ll read in this class one day. They also analyze and critique the work of others…

Looking into the past, it is easy to see the influence people have had on one another 's thoughts. Parents and teachers, writers and singers, everyone who can capture attention can influence thought. This is a great power to have, but look at what is done with it. Songs about murder and drug use. Parents who allow television to raise their children. Writers who will write anything to make a buck. And sadly, a growing number of teachers who have to focus on test scores rather than teaching. Some…

fall semester coming to a close for IPFW I have been studiously viewing my completed portfolio in search for identifying my voice that I had created within our class together. After examining my work throughout this course I came to realize that my voice and writing has had a drastic change to my previous writings. Before taking Creative Writing I had worked on many other papers and had taken a separate course similar to this; however, the papers written in those classes didn’t compare to what I…

Chicago: write on class I have noticed a theme of injustice and uncertainty in all my papers, that I have written this whole semester. What I found in my work that surprised me were the metaphor and quotes I use to connect to my experiment. For example, my “Field Note” poem where I try to connect the fog as a London horror movie type of fog and then using a Sherlock Holmes quote who is a fictional character who lives in London solving mysteries. I never really did that in my creative writing…

learning experience for me, I've been able to learn a lot about english that I did not know or work on before. With the first essay that we worked on I did a memoir I really enjoyed working on this paper, In class we were able to get freedom to add pictures to are pictures make it a little bit more creative I certainly was not used to this; I’ve been told my whole schooling experience that you have the intro and the conclusion and three body paragraphs. The memoir I was able to write to what I…

overcome an obstacle; a major part of life is overcoming and conquering those obstacles that we face. Growing up English was one of the hardest subjects I had; I met many teachers throughout the years of schooling I went through who didn’t accept creative minds or creativity…

I experience those mediums as expressive and personal, I have made excuses as to why my products are not art: “even creative writing is formulaic and academic, therefore it is not art; my photography relies more on technical skill and internal math, therefore it is not art; my videography captures a subject but is not the subject itself, therefore it is not art.” Taking this class has forced me to reconsider what I understand to be art, and also what it would mean for me to be an artist. I am…

This has been such a challenging course for me personally as I’m such a logical person that has always been more of a research analysis typewriter that any level of creative writing is something that is so baffling to me that I put myself into a worrying stint when I signed up for this course. However, now at the end of the semester, I’m utterly glad that I took this course because while this level of writing is very different from my normal range, it helped me to see such a unique form of…

assignments. Creative writing allowed me to experiment more with the second camp of writing. The majority of assignments in this class being set up this way was something that took some adjustment for me as a writer with me having spent most of my prior experience…