{"id":24522,"date":"2023-11-01T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24522"},"modified":"2023-11-09T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:32:56","slug":"camosun-students-launch-new-creative-writing-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/11\/01\/camosun-students-launch-new-creative-writing-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun students launch new creative writing club"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a new Camosun College club for students interested in creative writing. The Creative Writing Guild aims to offer a space for students to review, brainstorm, edit, and share their work with like-minded individuals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second-year University Transfer student Forrest Foster is one of the club\u2019s founding members; he initially started the Creative Writing Guild as a way to spend extra time brainstorming with his classmates. However, the club has now expanded to welcome more budding writers from different classes and interests. (The club meets in various rooms in the Wilna Thomas building most Tuesdays from 1 to 4 pm; if you are interested in joining the club, or for more information, email victoriawritingguild@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Camosun student and Creative Writing Guild founding member Forrest Foster (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMyself and a few others in my Speculative Fiction class sort of thought it might be a good idea, just so we could have a little bit more time to workshop our content together,\u201d says Foster. \u201cThen a few more people wanted in, so I decided to build the club from there, so I could have a little bit more resources and that way it would be a little more official.\u201d<\/p>\n

An essential aspect of the club is the group work involved, and Foster believes this will help to strengthen writers\u2019 abilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a creative writing club, where we\u2019re specializing in fiction, speculative fiction, and a little bit of script writing,\u201d he says. \u201cFrom there, we\u2019re trying to develop everyone\u2019s skills, because typically with creative writing, the best way to grow as an author is to get peer feedback and everything. So, we\u2019re going to work together, even in smaller groups to see where we\u2019re, like, not necessarily messing up, but where we could improve. So, we\u2019re working together in that capacity… Our first official session [was] specifically around world-building. So, we\u2019re going to work together to create a fantasy or sci-fi world and then use auto-generated prompts to build stories within that world.\u201d<\/p>\n

New group members are encouraged to bring a piece of writing they\u2019re working on, but if they don\u2019t have anything, that\u2019s okay, too: Foster has some lesson plans prepared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] sort of working with a few of the teachers that teach creative writing classes, to sort of integrate a little bit with them,\u201d he says. \u201cBut it\u2019s sort of like, you can bring in your creative writing work, or you can bring in your own stuff, whatever you prefer kind of thing. And then we\u2019re sort of going to tailor each meeting based on what people bring in; then, if nobody brings anything in, I\u2019ll sort of figure out some lessons to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creative writing\u2014especially world-building\u2014serves as Foster\u2019s passion. He\u2019s leaving Camosun for the University of Victoria next semester, and while fellow group members may miss his enthusiasm, there are plans to continue the club in his absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason that I\u2019m sort of passionate about writing is because I just really enjoy creating, specifically worlds,\u201d he says, \u201cand then figuring out how characters would interact in those worlds and how the preconditions of that world affect the psychological foundation of the characters that I create.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Foster, the Creative Writing Guild offers a space for writers to focus on improving their craft, either at a hobby level or for classwork.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re in an environment where other people have a similar hobby, so you can sort of let that shine through and work together to develop your own writing, that sort of stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s also just a nice bonus to [do] your classwork. You can bring some of your writing that you\u2019re doing for classwork, and then you can get some peer feedback as another source of sort of improving that work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a new Camosun College club for students interested in creative writing. The Creative Writing Guild aims to offer a space for students to review, brainstorm, edit, and share their work with like-minded individuals.\u00a0 Second-year University Transfer student Forrest Foster is one of the club\u2019s founding members; he initially started the Creative Writing Guild as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-1-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24524,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522\/revisions\/24524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}