creative writing workshop

[lobelia321]

I went to my first creative writing workshop today evah.



I loved it. It was with the author Jill Dawson. It lasted for six hours. It contained 19 women (average age 52) and 1 man (average age 52). I am so drained by it all that I'm ready to fall into bed straight away and may have to leave the longer post of this for tomorrow.

We did all sorts of exercises. At the end, I read a bit of original fiction (one paragraph) out to a group of five (the first time I have ever shown anything orig to anyone irl, and ever read out anything of mine at all), and it felt weird and trepidation-making, and afterwards they stared at me for 10 seconds and then said, "Wow." This was the best moment of the whole day. I felt buoyed up!

I started thinking, hey, maybe I'm not so bad at this malarkey after all. My novel (wot i read over the last few days) is full of bits I got bored with but also has some bits I really enjoyed and wanted more of. And my writing does seem to have something that other people's writing doesn't have: I do seem to have a 'me' in my writing there somewhere. I sort of knew this from fanfic already but somehow, it takes me five years and three sledgehammers bang-bang-Maxwell to believe something like that about me.

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Comments

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Six hours...that's a pretty long time to be concentrated and creative. Good to hear that you enjoyed it so much. :)

And of course, we could have told you about the 'me' in your writing but whatever it takes. *giggles*

[msilverstar]

There is a you, unlike anyone else, in your writing! I'm so glad you can believe it now.