The reason why I chose this topic: creative writing
I chose to blog about creative writing, because I was inspired by my Eng 214 teacher in SFSU and my classmate in that course. It was that one day where our teacher assigned us a creative writing assignment and for me I didn't take it to serious, because I am a perpetuating procrastinator. Like my previous sentence stated, I waiting until the last minute to do this assignment. I chose to do this assignment in the shower, because that was the only place that allowed me to collect my thoughts on this assignment. To my wonders, I managed to create my own style of poetry, which consisted of rhymes and repetition. To me I thought it was okay, until the day came where we had to present our assignment to the class. The teacher made us switch up our assignment, so we wouldn't know who's assignment was presented. Nerves and goosebumps began to arise when my poem was presented by one of my classmate. After all the presentations, one of the student raised their hand to ask the question of who's poem consisted of this rhythmic and repetitive style? As everyone was looking for the author, I rose my arm to allow everyone know I wrote the poem. To my surprise, the student was so blown away by the poem that he gave me a fist bump for writing a simple yet meaningful piece of poetry. I was shocked that my poem (which was written in 15mins) had such an impact on my classmate as well as the teacher. My teacher thought my poem was so creative and clever that she implemented the poem into her reader for next year's course. From that day on I took my time in the showers and wrote some more poems that I did on my leisurely time. The previous two post are my poems that I wrote for in the semester that I took Eng 214.
Hi Kevin, this is Robert Talley , the TA for 414. This story of how you became interested in poetry/creative writing is fascinating. Are you interested in other genres other than poetry? I'm in grad school to become a writing teacher (so I could teach 214 someday), and I'm really interested in how your instructor incorporated creative writing into the class. This is something I would like to do. Have you taken any classes from Creative Writing department?
ReplyDeleteOne direction you could take this blog is maybe talking about the importance of creative writing/poetry to society and individuals who practice it. Or how important it is to you and where you see yourself taking this. Look forward to reading more blogs from you.
thank you for commenting on my blog. Yes, i've planned on things that I want to do with my creative writing. I have stated on my following post that I want to perform in a poetry slam if ever possible, but I'll take this hobby one step at a time.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great story on how you became interested in poetry. It is true that some of the simplest pieces of writing hold the most meaningful messages behind their words. I really hope that you can post some of your poetry and other poets work that inspires you. Very fascinating blog and great story! Keep up the good work and keep writing your poetry.
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