Creative writing who?I feel like I always learn the wrong lessons. Or the lessons that stick with me are far from the things my teachers prepared. Anyway, I’ve noticed that all these blog posts are quite ironic, and I’m sorry to say they aren’t changing. I’m sure my teachers would love to read a long post about my new creative writing abilities, but what I’ve really learned from AP Lit this week is the importance of keeping a journal.
First off, let me just offer some explanation for my poor instructors Schoenborne and Ben (who I’m sure by now are shaking their heads and curious to when in class they’ve ever said the word ‘journal’) and some general milieu. Since the first day of class AP Lit, we’ve been given time in class to work on creative writing. Now, it may have started off as creative writing, but as I’ve gone back and looked at my work from the last six weeks I’ve realized that my writings slowly got less creative and more real. I’ve concluded that I’ve been using this time to talk about my busy life. This fact became obvious when we were asked to present one of our creative writing pieces to be graded and I had to scramble to find something appropriate to share. This project was also a wakeup call, and I’ve promised myself to focus strictly on creative writing in creative writing. …. But I did really love keeping a journal. Not only did I get to work on my writing ability, but I now really appreciate being able to write about my life. In some respects, journaling is a coping mechanism. I love being able to recall the stressful events in my life and get them down on paper. I write them in a pretty way, go back and read them, and suddenly my stress is angsty art. Magic. Actually, now that’s sounding a dash unhealthy. Point of the post, when done in the ‘write’ way (ha), journaling is very beneficial. I found a link that I very much agree with on the topic and will post in the comments.
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Abbie
10/14/2017 06:44:20 am
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1999/09/why-write-it?lang=eng
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