As i read more and more about what it takes to be a great writer i become excited and fearful all in the same moment! it simply is the most exhilarating thing that i have ever endeavored to become! i am taking a chance with life! i am literally unable to take a leap for love but is all to willing to leap into the unknown and grasp authorship by the horns! there is a fierce abandon to my desires and i love it.
but the steps to publication is wrought with pitfalls and chances. its SCARY! but i am willing to try my luck.
in my class i have to teach 5 teaching labs. and i thought that it would be a great opportunity for me to teach on creative writing. and so as a result i made the five labs a sequence of subsequent lessons on creative writing and with each lesson different aspects of creative writing would be taught. so that in the fifth week the students will have successfully written their own short story or parable.
i am super excited because i want to see if through these five weeks the students will favorably respond to my teaching. for tomorrow's lesson i am teaching on description in creative writing. what the definition of description is and what that entails. i as usual am going to begin by defining it and then through asking questions am going to get the students input. then i am going to give the students an idea of what description is not and how it many times it is misinterpreted.
i will have random objects like a candle, mittens, a stuffed hippo and other things and i am going to ask the students to describe to me what they are through description instead of actually using the objects name itself. and then as the final project i am going to take three of my sisters painting with different settings and i am going to ask the students to write for five minutes straight without stopping and describe all that they see in the painting. what it reminds them of, what emotions they get from the painting, what objects are in the painting, who they are, what they look like. it is going to be great! i am excited!
hopefully i will be able to awaken creative juices within the minds of my students and let them have an opportunity to see the world of writing in a different light. for writing is only an expression of how you view life , and life itself through your words. it really is an amazing thing to witness the world through another's eyes. and i cant wait to see what my students see
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