Reflection

        Overall, I have really enjoyed the first semester of Creative Writing. I love being able to come to school each morning and just write. I think this first semester has taught me a lot about my writing skills and how to hone that creativity in my writing. I think I have come a long way in my sentence level writing and in my ability to explore my ideas fully. Writing has never felt very natural to me, but after being in this class for a semester, I feel like it has become something I really enjoy and could see myself venturing deeper into. 

My favorite part of this semester was definitely the playwriting workshop. Although I have always been passionate about the performing arts and will continue to study theatre in college next year, I never thought about exploring the writing aspect of it. I feel that playwriting is a form of creativity that I really connected to and can excel in if I continue to write and explore it. At first, I found it hard to start off a play and create characters that an audience could connect to. However, once I began with a vague objective for a character, ideas just came to me pretty naturally. Looking back on it, my story is very complex and unique; however, I think those ideas have always been in my head, but I have not yet had the chance to actually write them out. My form of storytelling is through actors on a stage, rather than through my own voice. I think because I have been so inspired by other incredible pieces of theatre, I can connect to that form of telling a story: through diving in to the emotional state of a character.

I hope to continue playwriting next semester and maybe even create a piece for the One Acts. Whether finishing the piece that I have already begun, or creating something totally different, I think it would be an amazing challenge for me to create a piece for my peers to perform and in front of an actual audience.