Importance Of Creative Writing

This creative writing class was one of my favorite classes, if not my favorite class of the semester because it let me expand on my writing and create more stories and poems. The writing assignments were one of my favorite homework assignments to do because I liked having prompts to give me options on what I could write about. I was rather stiff at first when it came to writing, but this class taught me how to be more lucid in my writing, and taught me some new strategies that have helped me better my writing.

Our book ‘Writing Fiction’ was surprisingly one of my favorite required texts that I’ve had to read over a course. It taught me more about writing strategies than I thought I knew before, particularly the first 5 chapters. The texts from Chapter 1: ‘Shitty First Drafts’ and ‘Why I Write’ in particular are the short stories that stood out to me the most because they not only taught me, they also inspired me. I can clearly remember the informal tone from both shorts, especially Annie Lamott’s ‘Shitty First Drafts’. Especially when she thought “all good writers” write their own

My goal is to become an author one day, and I want to create and write new stories and even a novel or a graphic novel of my own series one day, that’s my dream. I’m an artist and I like to draw out my stories, but I’m going to write out my stories and continue working on poetry. However, I also write my own song lyrics, so I also want to become a lyricist in the future too. I also plan on getting into either journalism or to become an editor because I enjoy writing columns and I’m good at editing things. My major is in English, so I’m definitely going to continue to write and learn more strategies, get my works published and have my name known as an author, it’s my dream that I plan to make a