How To Find The Best Creative Writing Teachers

I’m sharing with you my thoughts about how I feel, when it comes to seeking out an online stranger’s help to teach us how to pour emotions on to paper. This article is not about insulting your intelligence, but creative writing isn’t about writing fantasy novels with flair, or romantic settings where lovers dare, to seek sweet forbidden fruits in the shadow of castles ruins. If you are looking for classes on how to “creatively” write, then a few courses of English Gen Ed at your local public college is a very realistic way of learning how to properly write. The desperation in the voices of countless people, begging for information on where to find the most skilled masters of creative writing, shows us how our society has failed us in many ways. Creative writing won’t make you a writer, and it is not the key to unlocking some supposed mystery of understanding how to captivate a worldwide audience. Stop throwing your money at this false hope.

Hiding in a quiet corner with a laptop, locked up away from world experiences, is the exact opposite of what a wanna-be writer should do. And don’t compare, because we are all wanna-be’s, no matter how famous or infamous, or unknown a writer is. Everyone got their start in the same way, inside the womb of a swollen and expectant mother, who spent countless hours guessing as to whether or not you were a boy or a girl. A mother who decorated her home according to the way she would raise you to the best, and worst, of her abilities. That person, that place, those people, that you were first introduced to, is where your imagination sprang its first leak into this world.

I do not have answers for you, but I do have clues that might help you. You should know that creative writing is most abundant among gardeners who tend to lose their thoughts in the clippings of unwanted weeds. Creativity sprouts from the tip of a flower's pistil, a stigma that harbors the sweetest, most succulent and desired nutrition, that tends to be carried about by others and, accidentally, shared among the rest of the world as delicacies that are craved by foreigners. The pistil is often surrounded by a façade of perfect petals, that are quick to abandon the moment a gusty wind assaults them. It is a fact that the style of the pistil will tug you down a straight line of a monotonous stem, which always leads to the source of its suffocating yearning to quench thirst and devour light. Gardening will teach you that the roots of a circular family bury itself under layers of death, and always parts ways. Branches will slink about unobserved by the naked eye, seeking any way it can to escape, until they are uncapped, only to find that they are lost and tangled around hidden, buried blockades of unexposed rubble. Warnings are frequently discussed and pondered among gardeners, about the predators that seek to chew on and slow down the progress of any new growth within their reach.

Gardens, at times, can lead you to that euphoric sensation that most writers, captivated by their very own stories, often talk about. Overgrown wild and flowering weeds, robust volunteers, stormy weather, insects, pests, rotted roots, exposed pits of rubble, and broken fences, unearths the worries, the sorrows, and the jilted exhaustion that neighbors seek to gossip about. The experiences of multitudes of failure are the only lessons you need to be successful, at gardening and creative writing. A vague knowledge of proper grammar also helps.