Reflection Piece

Over the course of the year I have had many advancements. Over the course of this year:

● Children’s story

● Found poems

● Author advice project

● Imagery story

● Science fiction and fantasy flash fiction stories

● Author magazine

● Screenplay

● Blackout poems

● Five book projects

I have learned how to write many different genres and how to enhance my writing with different

types of imagery and characterization.

When evaluating all of these pieces, my favorite piece was the imagery story. This story

was about a man who heard the phone ring, and when he picked it up he heard his mom, who had

died five years ago. It was a very heartfelt and emotional story that was filled with a lot of

figurative imagery with many metaphors and similes that symbolize the love for a mother that is

never ending. There is also lots of literal imagery to just help explain what, Miles, the main

character was feeling and seeing because a lot was happening all at once for him. His

anniversary, his wife was mad, his child was being mischievous, he was hearing things, and

seeing things that others would say aren’t even real. I was definitely most proud of this short
story and I might even consider lengthening it and making it into something more, maybe adding

more to the beginning and making the end more dramatic.

One of the main aspects I have learned from this class is how to help manage my

procrastination. With the projects being quite extensive and the due date within the week it was

assigned, I have really improved my work management. I would also say I have learned to work

with different genres and express more diverse topics that will push my limits and open myself

up to more in creative writing. I really want to try to write some new and modern types of poetry,

maybe add in some latin poetry, even though I have never even heard of that, it just sounds cool

and sophisticated.

The prompts Ms. Mounts uses in her class were sometimes very strange. A few examples

would be writing about a disney character and switching their gender or a dragon, giant, and

alien on a cruise ship, or about a planet with its own undiscovered species. All these topics were

things I had never even thought about writing, in which, even in the portfolio free writes I am

submitting, was one story was about the life of the squirrel and another was in the science fiction

genre, where in the future we are trapped in bunker underground because of a war. I had never

really liked writing about that stuff, and I found once I was forced to work with something I

wasn’t very experienced with and now, I feel more confident with writing about different

prompts, because if I just do it, instead of thinking about it too much I might end up really liking

it. I would say the one story I least expected to like was ​The Life of the Squirrel. ​I wasn’t too

excited about the prompt, but while I was writing it I actually found it quite fun to write from a

different perspective, and I feel if I would have had more time I could have ended it in another

way and made it better. Maybe in the future it is something I will continue.
 I think I still need to work on using different voices with each genre. When I write about

something scientific, I need to write more professional and I still put in a lot more voice than I

should have. Other than that I think my work ethic in creative writing class is at its peak.

I have really liked taking creative writing this year because I like Mrs. Mounts, even

though she wasn’t here half the year, I love to write freely and enhance my skills, and I like that I

can express my hobby as a class and get a grade for it. Ever since I entered the creative writing

class I have become more in touch with my creative abilities because I have had more time,

within the one hour a day that I have it, to learn about myself and what I like to write about.