Creative writing has always been my favorite activity in school. In elementary school, it was always a topic we would cover. As we got older though, the focus switched from creative writing to essays and research - all of the boring stuff, with an occasional creative assignment. That was disappointing to me. Not only was it because I enjoyed making up stories and characters and new worlds to write about, but because I was always given great praise as a creative writer. I can’t say that stopped with the essays. English was one of my best classes throughout my middle through high school career. I always missed creative writing though. When I got to Rutgers, I decided to double major in Theatre and Journalism & Media Studies. With those two, there’s a wide range of fields I’m interested in - one of them being screenwriting. Taking this class, I thought the primary focus would be how to manipulate and work with our blogs and various media outlets with the creative writing sprinkled i...
