My Creative Writing Portfolio and Class Review!
In creative writing I didn’t really know what to expect when I came into it. I wasn’t exactly sure how things were going to be, or what exactly this class was going to be about! I guess I had a slight idea that it had something to do with writing things but I didn’t know what would become of me when I took the class. While the class was going on I didn’t really see what I was actually gaining from the experience, but I knew something was being etched into my creative side! My writing senses has strengthened as a whole, because of all the different types of writing styles that we had learned in the one semester. I kind of wish it would end! I have learned so much in the one semester then I would have if in any other class for the whole year. I have learned that it’s not about how much you write, but how much thought and feeling goes into a piece of writing that make it special. When you put a lot of feeling and detail in a work of writing it can make the story that much more powerful and absorbing to the reader.
Even though I tended to put things off for a little bit, I still gave myself enough time to put those feelings and emotions into my pieces of writing. No matter what the assignment was I would always try my best to capture the reader’s attention, and maybe in the process get them to feel what I felt while writing it. I’m the type of person that will read a story and put myself into that character’s/person’s place in that story/writing piece. There were a few times that I put something off for too long and tried to cram it into words in the last few hours of the time that I had left. I do hate doing things like that, but I guess I felt that I could get it done with no problems even if I did ‘put a pin in it’ and save it for later. Sometimes you have to push yourself to you own limits to see what you can do and how you can do it with the time you give yourself, but it’s better to stay ahead of the game. It’s a lot easier to get things done earlier rather than later and have it sound like you whipped it up in three minutes. I can apply this whole class to other classes that’s the beauty of taking this class. I an apply time management to anything in life, and it has taught me to get things done early so you have time to correct simple mistakes. I can also apply the writing technique as well as how to write things like they should be written. I can also apply what I know about punctuation. As in, where a good place to put commas, where to split a sentence to make it into two, or even where to just end something that just seems way too long. With everything I have learned and everything that has been tossed at my feet to play around with, I think I had one that I really liked and that I thought was entrancing in my eyes. I was surprised with how my Digital Story Telling video came out, because I had taken a lot of time to write out everything that I needed to say and read over it a fair amount of times. I wanted to make sure I got the message I wanted to get across got to the listener. I had a lot of fun writing it, recording it, and placing it all together, but I think my favorite part of it all was getting to see the finished product. Starting and finishing a writing piece has always been a hard thing for me to do, simply because I never knew how to get to the way I wanted the piece to end. A strategy I have learned from being in this class is that it doesn’t matter how you get to the end, it’s about what you wrote and if you captured the reader’s attention and pulled them into the story. It’s about much more than just words on a page; it’s about being able to visualize what the writer was trying to get you to see. I used this to over come the challenge to finally finish a short story. My fiction writing was weird for me to do because I had never actually finished something like that yet, so that was a huge stepping stone for me. I have always had a problem with finishing “short” stories or even finishing a story in general, because I had always hated to see the beautiful story end. I have started to write a lot of other stories, but could never think up an ending for them, but now I think I will be able to. I have a stronger type of mind set for writing fantasy, or fake events if you will. I say this because I love reading and watching these types of movies and T.V. shows all the time, as well as visualizing those type of stories in my mind as I’m reading them. Fantasy has always been a strong suit for me, because I’ve been writing and thinking about it since I was able to write fluently. My family and I have always been more of a fantasy type than a realistic type family. We liked making things up when I was little, and I think that impacted me the most and that’s why I like fantasy things more than anything else. That’s a big reason that I also write out of this world stories like I do all the time! I think I also have a strong ability n starting a story rather than writing an ending. While there are a few things I believe I am good at, there are also many things that I need to continue to learn. Punctuation is one of those things that I need a lot more practice with, because I never really know what to use in what sentences or even where to put them when I need them. I think anybody could improve on this no matter who you are, because it’s something that can always be changing with anything you write. I will need this knowledge for moving on in life, and bettering myself as a writer! I learned when and where to put more detail in and when to have less detail when writing a story, like when I wrote my Dean Winchester short story. For Example, The next two paragraphs are from my short story. “Crowley... why are you talking like this? These words that are falling from your lips are not the ones I would have thought would be coming from the King of Hell!” I smirked. “None the less, I really appreciate your kindness right now. I may have needed that. I guess they have been away from so long on so many hunts without me that I feel like I’m only a burden to them, and they would be better off if I would just go ahead and leave them alone! I mean what if they don’t even like this whole idea? What if they never wanted this to even happen?” I started to ramble on and on about the negative sides of what could happen. He sighed, seeing me in this state made him feel sorry for me in a way, but he also knew the feeling himself in a twisted sort of way. “Scarlet darling... you always look for the bad things to happen, but you always seem to miss the good side to what you are planning! I do believe the boys have been thinking about having a true Christmas for a while now as well, but they didn’t want to say anything about it. I know at least one of the boys has been wanting something like this for a long time, but has never really had the guts to set it up! You know, with having a strong, and dependent type of personality to maintain! ” He comforted me with his words, but at that moment I didn’t care that he was the King of Hell so I decided to hug the man standing next to me in his bourbon scented suit. I feel a lot better about putting just enough detail to explain something, so it's not to the point where its two much. I also feel like my writing has expanded so much after I've written so many other types of pieces. I think taking the Creative Writing class was something that helped me develop such a different writing technique, and I believe that I will be able to use everything I have learned in life whenever I need it in the future! |