Creative Writing
The Sindy's- Chapter 1 Preview
Within this first chapter, the narrator, myself, encounters and begins working for The Sindys family as a nanny. Soon excitement turns to concern as chaotic and unsettling conditions are whiteness within the Sindys' home, leading to questions about Ms. Sindys' parenting and the safety of the children. This sets the stage for a journey of introspection and discomfort as the narrator navigates their new role and the challenges it presents with child abuse and neglect. Reader discretion advised. This piece was created during my Creative Writing class abroad.
Creative Writing | ABRE 2988
From this class I chose the first chapter of a nonfiction memoir I began writing for the final project. I am still currently writing this piece; however, it is one of my main focuses at the moment so I wanted to highlight it.
Class description from syllabus:
"This course is a creative writing workshop thematically keyed—but not restricted—to exploring the experience of living and traveling abroad through writing about our experiences in Italy and Europe. Along with weekly writing workshops, we will read and discuss texts that focus on Italy and Europe from both the native and foreign perspectives, noting particularly the literary techniques and strategies that various writers have
used to express their experiences of Italy as a place, its people, or as a literary trope. Our class sessions will be divided almost equally between these two activities. One of our two weekly sessions will be devoted to the examination of a text dealing with various American, English, Austrian, French, and Italian authors’ experiences of Italy. These texts will provide us with a forum for discussing the literary expression of place and one’s relationship to those places as well as showcasing various literary forms, genres, and techniques that we might find useful in the formulation of our own texts. The readings will also provide us with models for weekly writing assignments that will ward off any writer’s block. In these classes we will also listen to various authors reading their texts aloud and consider the aesthetics of literary performance."