Profound Text.
Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis
This week in class was pretty much just carried over from last week, so it doesn't really feel like I learned anything all that new. That's not to say that this week was unproductive, however. I found the time spent on revising my creative writings to be particularly useful. I find that I really hate reading and revising my own writing for some reason, so to have some time dedicated to only that was beneficial to my productivity. Especially since a lot of my creative writing was on my college application essays, it helped kill two birds with one stone. With my revisions, I realize that most of them weren't really revising anything major like the ideas I'm trying to express, but just revising things like word choice and phrasing. This seems to correspond with the biggest trouble that I have with writing, which is that I know what I want to say, but I can't seem to find the right words to convey it. Because of this, my writing sounds a bit fragmented or unclear before I revise it.
In addition to revising my writing, I also appreciated the poems by Ross Gay. I learned from them that good poems can pretty much be about anything, that the main topic can be seemingly small and inconsequential but the connections large and profound. I think this particular bit of knowledge will help me be more free in choosing topics when I have to write my own poems in the future.
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