We started off the day with our creativity already in hand. When we entered we received slips of paper to bring into being a name plate. We were free to express ourselves by decorating it in any way that we wished to.
After listening to a beautiful poem we had a moment to look inside ourselves to see our own personal flame of inspiration and imagination. For some the flame took a shape of many colors, others a glow that was small and soft, and additional different types. Following that, the students shared what their flames looked like with a neighbor.
Then the students were presented with the complicated and thought provoking question of 'Why do you write?' Some answered that it gave them an ability to escape this world or to create one of their own.Others said to bring order to the world. Additional answers ranged from letting out emotions to let people look into their universe to figuring out how they truly feel and think of their reality.
The following question was "What do you want to write?" The students brainstormed lists of ideas and circled what interested them. Some of the more common ideas were fantasy, sci-fi, ghost story, mystery, horror, and even personality disorder.
To finish off our morning, our guest speaker Joy brought us outside to introduced us to embracing nature, improv, and noticing the world around us. We also participated in a circle story (each person in the circle said one word to create a story), and made a random list of colors, places, animals, adjectives, and adverbs to put together and make a short story.
When Joy left, everyone walked to the Union for lunch, after which we walked to the Old Maine lawn and had twenty minutes of Free Write. Later, we returned to the room and talked about poetry and screenwriting, and then attempted to write our own poems based off one work that we had previously done.
Finally, everyone split into the groups. Three of the groups were Response (they read one story and made a constructive criticism conversation), while the fourth group attempted to create the blog that you are currently reading.
Hope you enjoyed reading our endeavor!
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