Karina Ramos

Essay 2: Just Wanted to Write

There are two reasons why I registered for this class. The first was that like many other students it just happened to fit into my schedule. Sad to say but other than taking into consideration whether it’s required or not I usually only look at if I can make it fit. This time however, the fact that it was a Creative Writing class greatly influenced my choice. Forget whether it was required or no, I just missed the environment of being with other like myself.

I have been in other creative writing classes in the past and for the most part they were great. Knowing who was teaching it reduced a lot of the fears that the class would be like that one bad experience I had with the subject. So I came in just wanting to write.

Reading the course objective vanished any lingering doubts about the class. As Objective 1 put it it was meant “To develop a friendly but rigorous Workshop Presentations to produce writing & model instruction.” It was just the kind of class I was sued to, where it wasn’t just the instructor how gave the lessons by everyone in the class.

When I read Objective 5 I paused and, I’ll admit, freaked out a little. The fact that we were going to have to write poetry made me nervous. Yes I had take Dr. Gorman’s poetry class that summer, but still, it was poetry. Poetry was (and in some way still is) scary to me. So I pulled out all my notes from the summer and talked to many of my class mates who were in the Poetics class as well.

Minot said, “When you read a poem critically, you adopt that poet as your teacher.” So that’s what I did. I listed to everything everyone said about the subject during class and critically read the poems that were submitted and tried not to do the same mistakes on mine. Finally managed to write one of my own. After a few drafts I decided that whether I felt like an idiot or not I had to let someone read it. I’m happy to say that it didn’t turn out half bad, but that was only thanks to Objective 2 ”To use Draft Exchanges to learn disciplined routines and cooperative relations with other writers & authors.”

If it hadn’t been for those Exchanges none of my work would have turned out as good as it did. It is possible for an author to work alone but he (or she) doses a much better work when he has a group of people willing to point out the good and the bad of his work.

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