When you were in school, how many of you liked to write or tell stories?
Now, how many of you hated writing the class assignments for Language Arts, English, or Creative Writing.
I was always told I was good at telling stories and most of the time I actually enjoyed it, but when it came to writing something I was assigned to write I hated it.
There is a big difference in my mind as to writing what you want and being put in a box and told to write. When assigned a writing peice and being boxed into a specific track makes it very hard for me to write and be creative. Even when the teacher would say be as creative as you can.
Following specific rules, I find, stiffles the creative flow. Or it could be that I was too caught up on the rules that I stiffled my own creativity.
How did you do with these types of assignments? How did you get past the creative block if you had one?
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