Today was my first Day School of the year (for A215-Creative Writing). I have to say it did a lot to calm my nerves. I’ve still been feeling slightly traumatized by the overactive participants of the Student Cafe, but my tutor was really nice and everyone else in the group was perfectly harmless…
Now I’m only terrified by the prospect of doing a poetry assignment.
The day was very relaxed, we did a lot of creative writing activities and then shared our ideas with the group. That was a new experience for me- I’m always very guarded about showing people anything I’ve done myself be it art or writing… It’s just really worrying putting yourself in the position to be judged. Or that’s what I thought, but it was actually strangely liberating. Plus everyone was really constructive (which helped). Who knows? One of these days I might even feel brave enough to put something onto that dreaded online forum…
Anyway, I need to go make some din-dins and do some work before the Xfactor, so bye bye!
Doing it the Open Way 