That's a cool perk! And yay for a new story beginning and the words written! *\O/* I also think a writing club at school is really cool. We didn't have anything about creative writing at school in my time, or generally; I don't think something like this existed at all back then. (Of course we wrote lots and lots of essays at school, in the last three years also in our foreign languages, and we were taught about the basic structures for this, and analysed literature and whatnot, and not only a little and learned lots about text analysis and how to do write non-fic and so on. But nothing called creative writing, and no encouragement exactly to go creative. For those of us who were interested in going that way, it was kind of self-understanding I've only heard about creative writing being something that is taught when I discovered the internet and fanfic. At first I've been totally envious, until I found out that there's also a big advantage to not having had any tuition on that, after seeing manuals and instructions in how to deviate from the rules learned in such classes, or when I found that certain types of fanfic read like carbon copies of each other for structure and plot: I was free of that, "only" had what I'd learned myself from text analysis and voracious reading. But what I'd really loved to have would've been encouragement for my own writing. Until I discovered fanfic all I did was write for myself, with the rare exception, and didn't even dare to show my efforts to anybody because I knew they were very beginner-level. ;o) Word-wise, I've done much better this time, 662 words, although it's all non-fic. But at least the words are flowing again, which is good.
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I also think a writing club at school is really cool. We didn't have anything about creative writing at school in my time, or generally; I don't think something like this existed at all back then. (Of course we wrote lots and lots of essays at school, in the last three years also in our foreign languages, and we were taught about the basic structures for this, and analysed literature and whatnot, and not only a little and learned lots about text analysis and how to do write non-fic and so on. But nothing called creative writing, and no encouragement exactly to go creative. For those of us who were interested in going that way, it was kind of self-understanding
I've only heard about creative writing being something that is taught when I discovered the internet and fanfic. At first I've been totally envious, until I found out that there's also a big advantage to not having had any tuition on that, after seeing manuals and instructions in how to deviate from the rules learned in such classes, or when I found that certain types of fanfic read like carbon copies of each other for structure and plot: I was free of that, "only" had what I'd learned myself from text analysis and voracious reading. But what I'd really loved to have would've been encouragement for my own writing. Until I discovered fanfic all I did was write for myself, with the rare exception, and didn't even dare to show my efforts to anybody because I knew they were very beginner-level. ;o)
Word-wise, I've done much better this time, 662 words, although it's all non-fic. But at least the words are flowing again, which is good.