Creative Writing Class

This year, students were so lucky to work with local author Pat Ryan during a two day workshop.   Ryan hooked them right away with a magic trick and taught them about magical realism.  After reading one of Ryan's stories from The Baseball Diet Book,  students wrote their own magical realism stories.  One of the exercises Ryan led the students through was writing a 300 word piece without using the letter 'E', which was very challenging.  Junior Matthew Timmerman really enjoyed the experience saying, "That was so fun!  It gave me an opportunity to think more deeply about the words I was using and allowed me think more poetically and used a more 'fleshed-out' vocabulary."  Overall, the whole class benefitted from Ryan's talent, experience, and humor!  We are so appreciative that he shared his time!