I have taken a bit of a departure from my spring semester adventures, I will do my best to wrap them up here in the next couple weeks before I leave for FYJ and Study Abroad.  This particular post is about the third and final event of the Visiting Writers’ Series spring semester.

Like last year, these works (the senior capstones) were amazing to listen to. Most of the speakers present their work professionally, one senior even humorously bringing up a glass of water to sip from, even though he was only going to read for five minutes (every writer who has ever presented that I have seen has had a bottle of water with them).

On one level it was intimidating to listen to the projects, knowing that someday I will be expected to write something of that quality. On another, it was difficult not to be impressed by the capstones. Aside from the writing itself, some of the presentations/deliveries were intense. Especially the last guy, he gave a very passionate delivery of a very intense scene. As one of my friends commented, it made sense why they chose him to go last.

The one problem with the event is there are so many writers and they have so little time, it goes so quickly that most of the event wasn’t given the time to sink in. Other than that, it’s hard to come up with something insightful about an event that I have to go see for four years.

Until Next Time,

Joe