today was the last session of my creative writing workshop.
i forgot to mention, i was attending a creative workshop here in the Philippines. i thoroughly enjoyed the experienced because i met some new people and at the same time i discovered something about myself that i thought i didnt have.
i'm a good writer.
you see in this creative writing workshop we were asked to write a homework. we can choose either to write a short story or a poem.
i wrote both.
what happens is that you are going to read your homework to the group and people would react to it. it would be negative or positive. it can help you though to be a better writer because they also give you some tips and the instructor was also helping us.
now before i tell you how my homework went, picture out the people in my group. we had our instructor who was really nice and she was a proffesor in one of the most famous university here in the philippines and we were surprised that she has two books that were published. in short. she was really good at this stuff. LOL.
i also had some group mates who were nice and simple like me. i get along well with them and actually talk to them after the workshop. these people just like me are mere middle class came from okay families.
the other group, in short the remaining people. were kinda like snobby. i found out they came from prestigious universities, they are esteemed proffesionals. rich folks. lets just say... snobby people. LOL... they were civil and okay.
in our discussion everybody is polite but honest. if they dont like your work they say it. i mean after all, they help you improve in your writing.
now on my first homework, i wrote a short story.
i was nervous reading it, i mean after all i am being judged. i was surprised by some of the comments. some of them are nto surprising after all, i know my work wasnt thoroughly finish. because i suck at grammar and sentence building. hey. english is not my first language so i'm not really good at grammar.
one of them said my story was gross. there was a little gross factor. LOL
now there this one woman who always has something to say to all of us. she was educated, a lawyer, sophisticated lady. really intelligent. and to make it short... kinda snotty and stuck up. LOL.
but she was nice and polite about it.
she said she like my short story because it was something unsuspecting yet simple. but the grammar was killing her. LOL
i was happy with the comments because they like my short story and now i know what to do to fix it.
now the last homework was this evening. i made a poem.
an emotional poem for me.
when i read it out loud my voice broke. made me want to cry because when i wrote it, i wrote my emotions out.
of course i didnt cry i was too shy to do so. LOL
that lady was the first one to say something about my poem.
and she said.
it was her favorite among the group and she like the was how the poem flows and the words the was chosen.
and lastly she liked it because she did not expect that i could write something like that.
during the workshop i was really nice and i joke and laughed a lot. i made everybody laughed.
and she wasnt expecting that i could write something like that so deep.
after the workshop i talk with some from teh group and they were like, wow you made the lawyer love your poem!
they like it as well.
they said i was really good at writing.
now, i'm not saying this to boast or anything. but all my life, only few people actually liked my writing.
i was disheartened to continue it when i was in college. i wrote a bunch of poems and it didnt get published.
it bummed me out that i just stop.
i dont know if i'm that good. but they said i was. even the instructor said so. she liked my poem too.
one of my group mates who worked in a magazine. said that maybe i could write short stories and get it published in their magazine.
it just a small catholic magazine.
but i dont know. i dont know if i can do this.
when i was young i did dreamed of becoming a novelist or something.
but too much criticism push me down and made me quit.
but i dont know. maybe i could still do this.
i dont know if what she said is true but it would be nice to get published.
this really made me smile.
it made me happy that there are some people can see something in me that i dont even see.
maybe i am a good writer...
who knows...
lets just wait till i get publish... LOL...
for now...
keep on blogging
sorry for the wrong grammar. i type too fast... LOL