Glenn Mori, crafting with words, notes and thoughts
Fiction, jazz, and other stuff!
First assignment from a beginners class for creative writing; describe a place using the 5 senses.
Sigh. I knew it was going to be a basics class, but I wanted review of some basics. “Write about a place that you love. Describe it using the 5 senses, or as many as possible.” Then it’ll be read, and critiqued in class next week. This falls under the topic of “settings”.
Recently we bought a new DVD player and with it came a month of free DVD rentals. The first movie that we chose is “Brokeback Mountain”. I’m sure that everyone knows what separates this movie from all other mainstream successful movies; gay cowboys.
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I’ve registered for a continuing ed night school course in creative writing.
The class doesn’t start until the end of September but I’m looking forward to it. I expect it to be fairly basic, but basic is what I need to learn. I haven’t done creative writing that was reviewed since, oh, 9th grade or so. Any writing for assignments since then has been either critical/analytical or research oriented during the rest of high school, college, university, grad school. Creativity is only in the choice of topic and choice of words.
I’ve read some very nice stuff from Alice Gray lately. No, that’s not quite right; it’s not stuff that came into existence lately, rather I only discovered her recently and have been reading some of her writing.