11 May 2017

Today was the last day of our creative writing course and it was honestly a great time going through our discussions and reading literary submissions from all of our classmates. I feel as though the book and being able to go through the pieces of writing in it really did help in getting a better idea of the amount of detail that goes into crafting poetry or short stories. I've been writing poetry for years, so I don't feel as though I had much trouble with that portion of the course; however, as I have never gone through with writing a short story, I definitely struggled when it came time to do that. I do have to admit though, I didn't give it the most honest effort that I could have. I don't think the problem is in lacking ideas for stories, rather it is feeling confident in the execution of the plot that has mitigated completing a story at all for this class. Regardless though, to whether a story was completed or not, The analyzations that we had to do for a select number of short stories in the book, along with touching on the elements, helped in understanding them better and having more appreciation for the art. I also do appreciate what this course has to offer to its students, and would gladly recommend it to any one who is considering enrolling into it.