On Creative Writing
Monday, September 14th, 2009
On Creative Writing
My first real adventure with creative writing began with a course I took back in high school with a tough, but inspirational teacher named Irma Erickson. This was one of the courses at my school that you didn’t miss if you were a creative kid.
We wrote a novel during the year – each chapter written in a different style of expression – first person prose, poetry, third person biography, lyrics, etc. It was a class that captured all our imaginations and we each would read our efforts each couple of weeks to the rest of the class amid gales of laughter or choruses of groans.
My efforts were fledgling to say the least, but the experience certainly got me hooked.
