MONTREAL — Graduating students of McGill Writing Centre’s “Creative Writing 101” course are excited to finally have the skills they need to teach a creative writing course of their own.
The month-long course educated students on exploring the creative process, developing a voice, and defining goals as a writer — all of which are topics students can use in creating a curriculum for their own university-level writing course.
“I have no illusions about making it big as a writer.” said Sean Fisher, a student in the class. “So, knowing how to teach a bullshit course on creative writing will definitely help supplement my career as a struggling author.”
“Plus I can use the skills I’ve learned in this course to creatively embellish my resume. ‘Cinema experience consultant’ sounds so much better than ‘Ticket taker at the movie theatre’,” said Fisher.
Course instructor Professor Matilda Moldaver explained that she mostly uses the class to farm ideas for her novel, which has been “a work in progress” for the past 30 years.
At press time, Moldaver and the other McGill Writing Centre lecturers were desperately trying to figure out how to teach a writing course without giving away the secrets of how to teach a writing course.
