Monday, March 05, 2007

The Writing Center, John Zurz

In the writing center, well, we write words. These words become sentences or stanzas. They are then made into stories, poems, or even plays. Naturally we take it all very seriously. Ok, you got me, we are all insane. Some of us more than others. You would be hard pressed to find a relatively normal person, but who is normal anyway?
The heart and soul of the writing center is writing. Though it has been known to shift to other places, like Math or gossiping. But mostly writing. When writing, there is usually a prompt involved. The prompts could be normal, awkward, funny, or at times cause tears. We learned that one the hard way, no more hysterical crying for us. Though, we could have done without the awkward prompt phase as well.
After writing there is usually sharing, or in the case of others (MAYA!!) not sharing. We have been trying to ween people off the little disclaimers that they tend to give. It isn't working, though we haven't tried electro-shock therapy yet.
In addition to this, people are encouraged to bring in pieces of writing for revision. It could range from something creative to one of those essay's that your scotch drinking, chain-smoking English teacher assigns. No one does, ever. This is why most of the math and gossiping takes place. But if anyone ever did bring anything in our criticism would leave you with a warm feeling inside. That feeling would be internal bleeding.
Our lawyer, Mr. Kavorkian, is currently trying to inform me that this is probably not the best way to draw attention to ourselves. Also we probably shouldn't have hid that body in the closet. Anyway, we hope to see you at the writing center soon. Hopefully to write and not to serve us a summons.

2 comments:

Mighty Mojo said...

This is going as the FIRST PAGE in the hard copy. I don't care what you say. I have invoked my power as self-proclaimed Dragon Lady and made an executive decision. Now if I only had the fingernails to prove it...

W Brown said...

excellent description of what you guys are doing.