ENCW 2600

I had a very love/hate relationship with this class over the course of the semester. On the one hand, I had a lot of fun writing my own short stories and reading stories written by my classmates, but I just wish we did more. In one semester, we wrote two short stories that were a minimum of 6 pages each and one essay about 3-4 pages long. This class is easy, but also endlessly frustrating, and I think we owed this to our instructor. His plans for the course changed practically every week, it was a constant cycle of doing work that he assigned only to learn that next class he didn't want us to do it anymore and instead we had to work on something else. It got to the point where I didn't want to invest any of my time in any assignments that weren't directly story related, because half the time they ended up getting scrapped anyways. It was very frustrating that as soon as the class started to pick up the pace close to the end of the semester, we spent 6 whole in class hours just watching YouTube videos of authors talking about their stories, that were mostly unrelated to the craft techniques we were learning as part of the class. It was obvious that he didn't watch the videos beforehand to vet them, and it was a huge waste of time. I would recommend this course, but not with this instructor. If he's the only option, it's not the end of the world at all. He's a nice guy, but I was constantly stressed out by how disorganized he is. I have hope that he can change and hopefully get the class together, but I was saying that the second week of class and nothing ever changed. #tCFF23