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Final Reflections: Take a moment to reflect on your personal growth as a writer during this session. How do you see creative writing within your life in their future? Has this course changed how you feel about creative writing? How? What writers and/or readings from Starkey's ​Creative Writing, or linked into the course, had an impact on you this session?

English replies ( 50 words) Joseph

This course has had an impact on me.  Honestly, I put off taking this course for a couple of years because I did not think I would be a fan of “creative” writing.  I was wrong.  I don’t think I will ever have a career writing poems, novels, or memoirs, but I enjoyed being pushed out of my comfort zone.  For example, I spend several hours a week with my children and granddaughter, expanding my short story into a novel.  It may never get finished, much less published, but I’m having a lot of fun writing it.  I think that is the point.

I have always been a fan of reading and will read just about anything put in front of me.  The essay by John T. Price, The Burnt Plane, was my favorite reading during this course.  As a pilot, I was immediately drawn into the story and could easily see the plot.

I look forward to applying the skills I’ve obtained in this course to my everyday life.  It has already impacted how I communicate in emails, professionally, and with family members.

I have had a lot of fun in this course.  Thanks to all the students for your kind words and feedback.  I have read every discussion post and reply; some great minds are in this class!  Good luck in all future endeavors!

Reply 2 Shiba

As a non-native speaker who considers English my third language, I did survive and enhanced my writing skills. In this class, I learned many rules or ways of writing that I did not know. Many moments I struggled in choosing words to describe my ideas, but those struggles make me improve my writing. I love poems but writing poems in English was something I never thought about or could ever think I can accomplish. I had no interest in creative writing before this class and now I can understand the author's style way better than I did before. I really like the reading of last week's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Johan Didion” even though it was a long story, but I felt I was at that time in the 1960s.