Thursday, May 21, 2015

In Defense of Creative Writing: Part 1

This is a series of student essays in response to the year-end prompt, "Once you are no longer in a creative writing class, will you continue to write regularly? Why or why not? What value does writing have in a person's life outside of school or work?"

Here is Madison's response [sic]:

I think that once I am out of creative writing, I will continue to write. I don't think that I will be writing as much.

Creative writing has really opened my mind up. I have wrote about things that I would of never thought about. It isn't just the basic, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" or "Persuade the city as to why they should open a mall." No that gets boring after a while, and soon it feels like your just re-writing the same thing.

This class has helped me a lot, and will continue to help me in the future. I will take the things I learned about and talked about, and put them on paper. This class has been a big help with opening my mind and dig deep, to get all of my good thoughts out. It also helps a lot to write about real world problems, and to put your thoughts on a piece of paper.

In this class, they actually let you write how you feel. You don't have to be uncomfortable with writing what they want to hear. Instead you get to express how you see things and how you really feel. And that taking this class has actually been more useful than any language arts classes I have taken. Since being in this class, I have started to write creative things instead of boring ideas. It has shown me that you don't have to write what you think they want to hear. But write how you actually feel.

After this class, I will still continue to write. Maybe not everyday, but maybe once a week. And I won't have to write about boring topics, but write about how I truly feel. And knowing all of the stuff you have taught us is actually working and it's helping me in the future is great.