People Are Getting Better

Wow. I must say that the stories have gotten better and better. I can’t say anything yet because my group has workshoped my story yet, but when I wrote it I felt like I was breaking out of my shell…which is what we are supposed to do, I’m assuming. It was weird the first story I wrote was decent but I didn’t feel like it was the greatest thing I could have ever written. Even when I turned it I felt uncomfortable, not that I hadn’t put enough energy or effort into the piece just that there was something (I don’t want to say invisible that’s weird) but some kind of force that was restraining my writing. I have never really written stories except for when I was a sophmore in high school and it wasn’t until I got to college that I really found my voice and style for writing. So coming into this class I consider myself a virgin to writing fiction or creatively.

Anyways back to writing my first story. I was concerned and uncomfortable about how my writing, even coming into this class the first day my ideas were…o god I’m going to have to write a story one day and read in front of the entire class, it’s going to be humiliating and no one is going to like it and they will just think it is stupid. But the way the workshop was set up was good and I realized how much I could learn from having not just one person but several critique my writing. With the ideas given I went into the next story with more energy and my guard down. When I read the stories for this first workshop, I was so excited I feel like everyone else did the same and the stories get better and better. So my conclusion is I think now from this class, you can be proud Theo Hummer, I’m switch my major to English writing from literature.