Last night was the first night of a 10 week class in creative writing I am taking at Conestoga Polytechnic in Waterloo. The focus of this class is to create a "work of substance" that will be ready to send to a publisher. The class has 7 people in it and everyone is very spirited with strong feelings about what they are passionate about. I am bring one of my stories to complete, that I am 7000 words into already. The synopsis is complete, along with character sketches so now i just have to grind out the narrative.
This blogging is a new experience for me. I am not normally so upfront with what I am thinking about so the fear of being bombed with harsh criticism is ever present. Of course I have creative control about what i post up here and my soul is not hanging out on the line for all to see, nevertheless, I am posting thoughts and ideas that can be read by total strangers and that is new for me. I am sure that this is not a new feeling unique to me, but it is to me and so I figured it is a point worth noting.
In writing class we have to create a Mission Statement about our writing goals, and we will be measured against what we write in our statements. It has given me pause to wonder what I really want to get out of writing. I will post "my mission" here once it is finished. When I heard this I immediately thought about the movie Citizen Kane, where Charles Foster Kane writes out a Statement of Principles for his first newspaper.
I have not received any comments yet so I am not sure that anyone is reading this all yet. There is very little here to read yet. Just another message in a bottle floating out in the vast sea of ideas.
It is also raining here in Kitchener which is a good thing because we have not received any steady rain this April and everything is so dry. I fear this might the shape of things to come.
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