My Boring Life
Taught by Meg Cummins
Ages 11-14, 15 students
Monday, May 19 (one session): 6-7:30pm
Are you boring? Of course not! It might just seem that way sometimes, when your friends aren't home and the dog is asleep and the weather is being difficult. Writing is a perfect way to fill the hours...plus it comes with that satisfying end result, when you step away from the marked-up page, then read it over again, smiling to yourself about parts you like particularly. You look at the clock; it's time for bed. Mission accomplished! The day is done! But wait a minute...that brings us back to the initial problem: you're bored! You think you're boring! There's nothing to write about! Right? Wrong.
In this workshop, we'll think of boring things and we'll think of exciting things. We'll combine the two, drawing from real life and our imaginations to write interesting, quirky, weird stories. Real life and fiction will collide and, guess what, writing about your life will be fun! We might jump up and down. We might listen to music. But two things are certain: no erasing, and no second thoughts.
Megan Cummins is a junior at the University of Michigan, where she majors in Creative Writing and French. She used to write stories about the Titanic but now mostly writes about reluctant spies and the people who build parade floats.
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My Boring Life
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