Creative
Writing
During July 2005 I took a wonderful weeklong
course on creative writing course at the John C. Campbell Folk School – the first
course I have taken since 1977. A renowned North Carolina Poet Maureen
Ryan Griffin
taught it.
Below are two short pieces I wrote in the
course:
á Memories of Evening Shooting Stars and a
Pacific Dawn
describes an overnight on Mt Hood during a hitching trip out west in my late
teens.
á Gee I wish I were Superman is on my aspirations as
a 12-year old.
Below are thee short poems I wrote in the
course:
á They Say the Apple is a Descendant of the
Rose
á How does Nature Create such Beauty Out of
Chaos?
One challenge in writing is to create characterizations
of fictional people that seem real. But how can you know you have succeeded?
For this, I propose: A Turing
Test for Literary Characterization.