Determined not to squander my summer as my camp-director job fell through and long days of quarantine stretched before me, I signed up for a series of writing workshops through Hugo House, a Seattle-based writing organization. I hoped that these classes would motivate me to continue my own creative work, as I am someone who is definitely driven by deadlines and external expectations. I also hoped to assemble a story that I felt was sufficient to include in my graduate school applications. I ended up taking two classes: the first, a one-off about writing sibling dynamics; the second, a revision course where students worked to improve a single prewritten piece over time. The sibling class didn't connect well with me - it was a lot of older writers reflecting on harsh childhoods, and I didn't feel that my own experience connected well or that I came away having learned much. The second class was much more helpful. I worked on a piece I had written for my Gothic literature class in the spring. My classmates had a lot of different suggestions for places I could go with my revision, and though my final draft actually wound up closer to my original than I had expected, I still appreciated the chance to explore possibilities for the work and stretch my thinking when it came to serious storytelling. Attached below is the feedback I received on the first and second drafts of my piece, which I utilized to revise subsequently.
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