First Night
Posted on June 28, 2005
The first class for Creative Writing was pretty normal. There are about 17 students in the class, most of them are either in education, or fulfilling an English requirement. The first few weeks of class will concentrate on poetry, so we already have a couple of assignments. The class on Thursday will just be held online, because the instructor has a conflict.
One of the assigments is to pick an activity (I picked bicycling) and create a list each of verbs, nouns, and adjectives associated with the activity, then use those words in a poem that is a metaphor for something else. We did an in-class exercise like this where we came up with verbs, nouns, and adjectives for writing, then used them in a poem as a metaphor for life. It was interesting. That exercise, and the others we did concentrated more on free-verse. They don’t necessarily have to rhyme or even make sense, but various words put together might evoke some deeper meaning or emotion.
The daily journal idea is a strong suggestion, I guess. It’s mainly for ourselves and not for grade. I’ll make an effort at it, most likely through the blog here, but I don’t know about every day. I am a slacker blogger, but I will at least try to make a go of blogging every day. OTOH, if I don’t blog something, I might still write something, but keep it for myself (blog sacrilege, I know).
Still haven’t got the pictures scanned, but maybe Thursday.
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HA! A summer English class! I had to do that last year! Good luck! As for the heat, check outMY BLOG . I’m only a couple hours north of you, and it has been SO MUCH worse. :P