Workshop Reflection

This has been the first class where any of my writing has gone through an actual workshop. Before going through this process, I was skeptical as to how much it would actually help my writing. After the first workshop, I was pleasantly surprised. I will admit that I was a little nervous to take criticism from a whole class of people that I didn't really know. I was particularly nervous about the students majoring in creative writing. It ended up going a lot smoother than I thought it would. I really liked how respectful everyone was, and I could tell that their criticism was only meant to help me. I was surprised to see how much doing a workshop can actually help. Without having input from other people, it was hard to see the mistakes in my work, and how some of the things I wrote could be confusing. Everyone's input helped me to drastically revise and make my poems better. Without the input from an entire class, I find it much more difficult to revise and make big changes to my poems.