So let’s see, this last class mostly revolved around that video by Elizabeth Gilbert (writer of Eat Pray Love) that she did talking about writers and how they were perceived by the general populace. Mostly it was talk about the crushing pressure of being a writer, and about the expectations of failure that she had. Overall she confirmed that the pressure exists and she does examine that society’s stereotype was vastly different then say, expectations of a chemical engineer. I think she was being very frank, about her success being freakish and the perception of pressure, it wasn’t some sugar coated pep talk about the future and the keys to success, instead being more casual. Perhaps that was the theme of the class, casual, rather then sharp deadlines, are the keys to creativity.
Other notes about the class: I was kind of disappointed with was our pictures project where we took random pictures and formed a story with them. We had 4 groups and when all done, only one group got any critique, everyone else wasted their time. I also thought coloring the comics (the homework from the class before this) was a waste of time as not even a single word was said over them; we just turned them in at the end of class for a grade. I should have spent less time coloring them…
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