Tyler+Reflection

Creative Writing was a very fun and enjoyable for me. I liked the fact that the class was relaxed and allowed me to effectively use my imagination. This is only a small dusting of what made this class entertaining and enjoyable. Everything about Creative writing is amazing, and I am delighted to know this is an offered course at Mountain Valley High School. My best memory about writing for Creative Writing would have to be writing a character profile for my hero Aydin. He was identical to me in various ways; he also had characteristics that I wish were part of my personality. I will simply never forget the molding of my hero’s personality and physical appearance. It was simply gratifying to know that I had the capability of creating an original character that had a realistic and human personality. There isn’t just one thing I thought was easy about this course. I thought most of the work in the class was tremendously easy to complete. It was easy because I have an imagination that is always flowing and thoughts and ideas just pour into my head. The only difficult problem I faced was being descriptive and using a sophisticated vocabulary. That was difficult because before this course I was a very boring and concrete writer that was barely descriptive and used a limited vocabulary. Challenges are not always dreadful, they can almost always contribute to drastic improvements. The type of writing I enjoyed the most was writing on my own. Writing on my own allowed me to use my own thoughts in my writing without it being riddled with the ideas of other other individuals. Ever since I was younger I have always preferred my own original work without influence from other people. Additionally I preferred writing on my own because it allowed me to see how far I could take my ideas and imagination. The best piece of writing I completed in this class would have to be my final battle background story. To me it was my best piece of work because I truly felt like every every ounce of my creative ability into it. I could have never done any better even if I tried to to use more of my imagination. In the future I believe I will transform into an even more creative writing. Sometime In my life I plan on writing an epic novel that is at least one-thousand pages in length. I Improved as a writer because I learned several new descriptive writing techniques that helped me improve on the qualities on my stories. Also I improved on my vocabulary use, as a result of that my writing has begun to flourish and blossom. This class had simply been a godsend for me and has showed me that I have the ability to be an effective writer. Yes I am a procrastinator when it comes to writing. I try to work on my writing outside of the classroom because my thoughts come to me more clearly when i am at home by myself and thinking my thoughts over. Loud noises at the school distracts me from my writing and it inhibits my imaginative flow. Surprisingly procrastination doesn’t hurt the quality of my writing. When I procrastinate on writing my stories improve drastically. The thing I struggled with the most was converging ideas with my writing partner. We simply struggled finding a way for our heroes of both meet each other. Both of our regions hated each other and our characters were from those places. Eventually we figured out how the two characters would meet. My character started a rebellion against his home country and allied himself with my partners character. Wikispace as a great use of technology in an educational setting. It instantly got me more interested in taking the class. During my free time I am on the computer often, so using it made me very comfortable and ready to learn all that I could. I hope Wikispace continues to be used in the future of the course. Technology is the secret getting teens effectively engaged in learning. Ms. Doughty was an amazing project leader in the class. When we were writing our final battle scenes she was always giving us suggestions that helped improve our scenes. She was very enthusiastic and made it clear that she loved the class just as much as everyone else did. In my opinion I loved having her in the role of project leader during the duration of the class. There is no one else more qualified for that role. Overall I liked how my region and hero came out. I could have improved by being more descriptive and going into more depth with Laborian people and their society. I wish I could have had Aydin overthrown the king of Laboria and became king, but i was never able to get that far unfortunately. More time is simply all I would have needed to make some extra improvements. For next years class I suggest having more discussions about each others writing. Posting rubrics on the wiki for each assignment would be of great help to students who aren’t sure of what is expected of them in this course. The only thing that could be done differently is allowing students to put what they want in their stories no matter how absurd they are. It just inhibits imagination if students can’t put absurd things that are within certain perimeters of decency into their own writing. Other than that nothing else needs improvement at all. Creative Writing was very fun and enjoyable for me this year. I simply loved everything about it. It definently will continue to be a successfull class in the years to come. Everything about Creative Writing is nothing short of amazing, beause of this class my new found love is writing.