(( Writer of the Week ))
09 January 08 - 20:57
I'm in a writing club at school, and although it may be called a "writer's club", mostly what everyone does is eat snacks and talk. No joke. But I guess our club president is trying to get us to do more "writing" oriented things, which is fine with me, since that's why I joined the club in the first place. (Not to say I'm not one of the people who mostly stand around and talk... I know. Bad me, standing around and talking when I'm supposed to be hard at work at a possible best-selling novel or something.)
Our club president says if at any time we get bored or need something to do, we just... write. Which makes sense to me. You talk about your ideas, your current stories. Sounds ideal, right? Too ideal. Most of the time, we still end up eating snacks and standing around and talking. Call it an excuse, but it's the truth: I also don't like to write in public. Well, I mean, I prefer writing in private. You know, in my own familiar computer room without so much noise around me.
That's not to say that she, our club prez, is not definetly making strides to get everyone more involved into the 'writing' aspect of this club. We've even started this "Writer of the Week" thing, where at each meeting two randomly drawn writers will read aloud a story, poem, or any work they've done.
And guess who's picked for the next meeting?
Moi. Me.
I'm not a horrible public speaker - I guess you could say I'm ok at it. But reading aloud something I've written? A little more daunting. Especially if most of the people I'm reading it aloud to are older than me. Not that they'll start throwing rotten tomatoes at me or anything, but still... I always wonder, "What if they don't like it? What if it's not any good?" No matter how many times people will tell me my writing's good and wonderful and perfectly fine, I'm probably the hardest critic on myself, and can always find numerous mistakes or flaws in my writing anyway. I always want to make my writing the best that it can be - the full stretch. I guess that's kind of impossible - someone can keep editing and editing their writing, but they have to know when enough's enough. I'm still learning that part - knowing when enough editing's enough and my work is the best it can be already.
Back to the point though - I think I'm going to read aloud a poem I wrote - either that or something else. I told one of my friends I was going to show her one of the poems I wrote anyway, so I guess I might as well read it at the meeting. The meeting's two weeks from now, but I still can't stop thinking about it!
Wish me luck,
Pema
Yo, Pema. C. Moore here. Writer’s Ink one and only secretary. Calm down! It’s 3 minutes of making up some junk about how you write, what you write, blah, Blah, BLAH!
Told you I’d get here somehow!
-C. Moore
Claire M. - 12 01 08 - 19:07
