Wednesday, November 3, 2010
work shop
coming into this class i have to say i never expected much to get out of the class. i knew i wasn't the strongest of writers and i have very little experience of writing when it came to poetry. but one thing that is really helpful in making become a better writer was listening to the feed back i got from the class during work shop and then reading everyone's feed back on what they wrote when it came to my poem. but it wasn't easy for me to hear the feed back to be honest when this was to me one of the best things i could have written about something that really came from the heart and came from personal experience putting a real burden on my life. but it is a good thing because it was constructive and it is helping me. it is just a bit awkward to hear it about something i am not all too familiar with because i am used to knowing a lot more about the work i am doing. but over all this is a great working experience to make myself a better writer, and to be honest it is working very well.
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I also really enjoy workshops, and am able to take a lot for them. I am new at writing poetry too and at first I was nervous of all the criticism I was going to get until I realized that no one really said anything negative. Everyone was able to give positive feedback as well as pointers that I could use to improve my poem. In taking advice from my fellow classmates I am learning from my errors in punctuation or the lack of concrete detail so the next time I write a poem I can make sure to include them. Workshops have also allowed me to become more comfortable in sharing pieces that are personal which I have realized is not that bad at all. After completing one round so far I am excited to continue and gain better revision tools to improve my overall poetry skills.
ReplyDeleteI am not a big fan with workshops. I do not like people giving feedback that is constructive, makes me feel like breaking down in tears or have that fear that someone will say something and it will hurt. My poems aren't the greatest but the ones that I took days to write seem to me the better ones and then people say things I should change or when I wanted to make my poem different and then have to change it because others say that it shouldn't be that way, but I thought poems are supposed to be unique and not like any other.
ReplyDeleteThere are several things I took away from workshop and there were some things that I did not understand. For instance, it enabled me appreciate the sound and imagery of language. I was able to discover words, sound, and rhythm in unique, creative ways. However, what I did not understand the angle of where the constructive feedback was coming from. I use to ask myself: How can critique my poem, when you have the same mistakes? That’s one of the many things that I did not enjoy about the workshop experience.
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