NUS USP-PIPER Creative Writing Workshop Day 1

posted by Justin D. Pereira

Today is day one of the USP-PIPER Creative Writing Workshop which I signed up for at a lovely price of $50.00 . Haha, it was quite an interesting day because of the various presentations by the two lecturers, Max and Meghan ( double Ms ). We started with Poetry Appreciation today, and I must say that it is my first time even writing out a poem. Here's my poem below entitled "Time It's Time" Read through it and perhaps tag me about how you feel about it. We were given a range of nouns, verbs and adjectives to use, so the poem may not make sense but I tried my very best to put in a message as much as possible. Boy, is it time for you guys to read it!

 

Time It's Time

Justin Daniel Pereira

 

The wavering time

Is like a curving belief

Often blocked by rocks

And even sometimes a dog

Although when it is cool

It could be a frog.

 

Time itself does not bite

Or even try to cut your throat.

However, we are still surprised

When time itself stares at us

In our hot blue and also

Cool red eye

 

So now we say but mostly shout

I wish I had more time

Lest I throw this soft pie of mud

Straight into the clouds

The frog has hopped, the dog is dead

All is left is time waving.

 

 

After all that fun, homework was given and guess what? It's my favourite type of homework. Writing Stories.

Yes, the task is to come up with a short story on the internal conflict of a character who is struggling to go or not to go against his very morals and values. Though the word limit is a bit dismal at only 600 words max, I must say that this will be an exciting story coming right up! Hope to post it up soon by next week Tuesday at least. So till then guys.