Evaluation and Reflections of the Creative Writing Course

During the course, I realised again that I am not good at writing poems, I have never been, anyway. And trying to do it in a second language, just results in a disaster. But it is good to be able to analyse the poems or to see them from different angles. This course gave me a little bit taste of it which I found challenging and enjoyable.

I mostly enjoyed the descriptive writings, the character building exercises and the dialog exercises during the lessons. Despite to my lacking in the English Grammar and the vocabulary, I think I can manage writing in these styles better than writing a poem. So, for this reason, I choosed to write my mini essay in Descriptive Writing.

Before I started to writing about it, I had to re-think of my first experience of this ‘Passage’. I thought of it again, as if I have seen it in a film. While I was describing the people or the views about this ‘Passage’, I thought of making a film of it and imagined using a camera that focusing into mess on the ground or to the medow. Using this technic allowed me to think of the details carefully, even encouraged to add some exaggeration. This technic is good for improvement of the imagination and definitely works.


I like observing people around me and the environment that I am in and this is something helps me with my writing. I also used the advantage of coming from a different culture. Being an outsider gives me the opportunity of looking at things from a different point of view.

Since I am involved in this course, I became a lot more careful observer. I focus on details by using the technics that we exercised on during the lessons, like creating a character or creating a story about the objects and the people. I can see that a further study in this subject would help a lot to improve my writing skills.

People who interested in generally life and in other people’s observations, would enjoy to read this article. I always enjoy reading this kind of articles and I just wanted to try to write one. I wanted to reflect the feeling of a rural historic town by describing the old part of it to the reader. But, there is another face of the town that is an unavoidable reality. I didn’t want to get into the reasons and the details of the social division; firstly, this is not a report about the social conditions in the town, secondly, because of the limited length of the essay. It should be a light reading, perharps at some point, helping to arise some questions in readers mind… Saying that, I tried not to be didactic which sometimes I can’t completely avoid.