REFLECTION ON WRITING WORKSHOP

 On 08 August 2019, the first year journalism class was in a workshop that is supposed to help them in their writing skills. And of course it will help them regarding the event that they will be hosting as the whole class, as they will be  helping the primary school children with writing their short stories and poems . They had to write few sentences of which each sentence had to be an absolute lie. At first the exercise was so challenging for them in the extent that some of them just got bored in writing the sentences and didn’t even know what lie they would even write in those sentences. So the lecturer said they  must just put pen on paper and just write anything that comes to mind even if it doesn’t add up. So they thought they should just try and write whatever that came to mind and it wasn’t as hard as they thought it would be, they  just needed to put their minds into the exercise . As they wrote the sentences it became more and more comfortable to do the exercise. So by the time they proceeded to the next phase of the exercise which was to write another sentences in which the time was extended this time, writing the sentences then was no longer boring them ,they were always looking forward to the next phase of the exercise. So after the second phase they proceeded to the next one. During this phase they were starting to enjoy the exercise, they  were  used to just write without thinking first and it was so easy to do it. All in all doing the exercise helped them a lot in terms of writing skills, they were not aware that one could write without thinking about what they are going to write about until they witnessed it. They enjoyed doing the exercise as a whole as they think it was a fun exercise.😄