Seizing Workshop.

My experience with workshop was most definitely an eye opening one. I previously didn't realize just how insecure I was about my own writing. With all other assignments even if I did not quite love what I ended up with no one else would have been the wiser (other than of course Dr. Groner). Workshop made me push myself to want to write something I found worthy enough to share with my peers. Due to this I wrote and rewrote 3 different poems. I was constantly analyzing which form I should use, how I should do my line breaks, etc. What I came up with was the poem I work-shopped but I could never decide how I wanted to format and do my line breaks. That is when I threw out all of my previous attempts and accepted that my peers could be the deciding factors. When it came time to read my poem I have no idea why I got so nervous. At one point my body was shaking so violently that I had a hard time controlling my voice and seeing what I was reading. I felt like I was having a seizure. Workshop taught me not to fear the editing process and the poetry unit in general taught me that its OK to not always be abstract. Sometimes a simple straight forward description is more powerful than some fluffed up abstract metaphor. I enjoyed workshop and hopefully next time I wont be as nervous.