Study Me

By Sharon Miki, Editor in Chief

creative writing, and was lucky enough

to have some of my stories and poems selected for the annual Pearls anthologies of student writing over

ome of my favourite times at Douglas College have been in

weeks ago, when a friend who is currently taking a fiction class mentioned in passing that she read one of my stories for class. “Uh, some of the guys didn’t

the Creative Writing the years. I took this like the stuff about department. The asagreathonour,and tampons,” she said. wonderful and patient didn’t really think too —_—‘[ thought back to the instructors spent much of it. story in question: it was hours explaining Then, this year, I a violent, angry story the mechanics of learned that having that I’d written during storytelling tome,and my work published a particularly dark time

never made me feel like my work was stupid (not even the time I submitted a sonnet exalting my great love for Diet Coke). I love

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sometimes means that people are actually reading it. And thinking about it. And, most likely, criticizing it. It started a few

in my life. Now that that time had passed for me, it felt surreal to think about a classroom of youngsters reliving and analyzing my

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anxiety in print.

Last week, another friend texted me to tell me that her class was reading a poem I’d written in her intro poetry class. Poetry is a form of expression that I hold possessively close—what if the class hated it? What if they Googled me and looked at my other work and mocked me? What if they set up a Tumblr to ridicule how bad of a poet Iam?

In the end, I realized that it’s highly unlikely that anyone will

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take more than a few minutes to consider my work—reading

it was, after all, just

a class assignment. Instead of freaking out, I should be excited that the words I'd slaved over would be read once more. Also, I’ll be sure to be more open and less critical when reading other people’s work: I mean, it’s possible that even Margaret Atwood sits at home worrying about what people think about her writing, too... right?

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