sigelphoenix

Since the quarter is winding down and our portfolio due dates are looming, we spent the majority of our time in Intermediate Verse Writing today discussing revision. One of the things we did was compile a list of all the tips we had heard/tried that we could use during our revising process. There are only 11 students in my class, so discussions really become slightly structured conversations -- and I was just sitting there, listening to my classmates discuss the same concerns about poetry that I have. Someone would describe a technique, and someone else would say "yeah, that works," or "yeah, that helps with ..." And I got advice and heard people talk about grappling with the same problems that make me rip out my hair, or playing around with the same things that I think are fun, and it was just. Agh. I'm not the only one. This isn't the way it was back in high school, where I didn't really have an environment that allowed this kind of thing. This is why I'm here, you know?

Of course, this does seem rather obvious. I'm studying creative writing, and I just realized that I get to learn about writing? :P But it's one of those things that can lapse into the mundane, and it was good to remember how awesomely cool this is.

(But then I also remember, holy crap, the quarter's almost over. I'm not ready for Winter Quarter! Hell, I'm not ready for winter -- why was the ground white this morning??)