How flow drives creative genius
Flow, the secret to happiness
Flow: happiness in super focus
Woke: aware, awake, engaged
Stay Woke Survey - Due Sunday, 3/13
Answer these three questions in the comments below:
1. Rankings (journal vs. blog vs. project). Which has you woke and why?
2. Talk about a class activity we've done that had you woke and why.
3. How do we stay woke?
Explanation:
ReplyDelete1. Rankings (journal vs. blog vs. project). Which has you woke and why?
--You've written 20 pages in your journal and you've written 6 posts on your blog and you've done 2 projects. When have you felt most alive/creative/woke/engaged/awake/happy/like what you were doing actually mattered and wasn't just some stupid thing you had to do for a class?
2. Talk about a class activity we've done that had you woke and why.
--brainstorming ideas for the class, the class journal, when you came up with the writing prompt, when you wrote based on a prompt someone else came up with, sharing your writing, sharing your project, working in groups, going to sundance, mash-ups, looking at pictures of journals, movie day, during the journal jam, etc.
3. How do we stay woke?
--Ideas to keep this class fresh. How do we stay inspired and motivated?
I'm pondering
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Deletesorry grants login is still on, I'm just too lazy to change it, rn.
DeleteI felt alive during the first project we shared. Everyone had one and it was great, the second one I felt like a lot of people just used the excuse of, "oh I'm still working on my first project" or something like that. Which mainly might be true or just a cop out. Anyways I think we should do something as class like the idea of the noscars or something, but actually have a winner. So yeah, I was all in before the idea of everyone getting a trophy, then I was kind of like this is stupid and has no point now. Also it teaches that we should celebrate others successes and not always being so focused on yourself. Like when we did the video assignment I thought that was cool and brought a lot of people together. Also the fact that you were going to pick a winner probably made more people try harder than what they were going to do. That's why I think we need to have competitions more because it teachers that we should try our hardest and deserve an award bases upon the product. The less competitive something is, the less people try. My ideas of staying woke.
ReplyDelete-Do a writing olympics where you have different categories people write it in a short amount of time. (Maybe have groups or be individual) Then award based upon judges.
-On a windy day have everyone write something down on a piece of paper, fold it into an airplane and toss it into different directions. You put the class blog or some way of contacting so that if someone finds that writing they can comment or something. (I don't know I'm literally writing what comes to my head)
-Write a mock trial where everyone draws a part out of their hat, then we all improv the whole thing. Or we can chose who gets to be who. (Judge, Jury, Attorney, Bailiff <--most likely Brit)
-Create a fake "United Nations" have everyone get into groups write about their fake country and fake problems. Then we all just get into huge wars or crap. I don't know....I just thought of that parks and rec episode...(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibRsziA7zIs)
-Create a whole album out of music we create or poetry we slam into music. Create disks for everyone and I guess call it a good day.
-Go to the pond and fish. Catch a fish and eat it. Share it as like a thanksgiving meal I guess
-Pretend it's our first night in prison, what do you write about? (I think we did this sophomore year but i can't remember)
-Create a choreographed dance on some Janky 80's music.
-Create a fake creative language "Own alphabet" Words ....Jk that sounds really nerdy actually. Maybe create our own Gang sign..maybe
-Go in the commons during lunch with a mic and roast some people
or slam...Whatever works
-Pretend we are all in a newspaper office and we all work for the boss nelson and we have to write the most outlandishing articles or have topics assigned where we try to make it either poetic, funny or something.
-Just watch conspiracy videos all day for one whole day and write about which ones we would actually consider believing
-Make a fake "creative writing religion" and describe what we would believe in, what our scriptures are.. or make up stuff...idk
-Ooh ooh we could have some of the class run for president in the classroom and describe why they would be best for the job. Have the people running dress up in presidential attire and others as idk. You know
-We could all draw pictures with our eyes closed and someone telling us where to move our pen or pencil....
-okay now i'm kind of running out of ideas maybe I'll comment more when I think of some.
Luke is woke
DeleteI want a class poem. Give everyone a topic and they submit one or two lines. This might be my next project.
ReplyDeleteI love when we do journal jams. I really enjoy having feedback on my writing so maybe like an edit day or something.
I prefer writing in my journal and on the blogs I have a hard time with projects because I feel like im not that creative. But I like that it pushes me out of my comfort zone.
Class activity that we have done that has made me woke was watching all those sofar sounds videos. Something about a bunch of random people in a random room listening to music and all feeling different emotions. I kind of feel like that is how cw2 is.
bottom line cw2 is my fav class.
I have a pic of zac and I being woke tourists
ReplyDeletewait jk I just read all the comments.
Deletenot woke.
but I have a picture with zac bc were missing creative writing but it's still in our hearts
So I'm just that kid that sits in the corner and bumps to rap music (even though I look like a Katy Perry fan #leftshark). I really connect with writing when there's music involved with it, which is kinda why I've taken a liking to both film and rap/hip hop. I really want a day where we listen to (I can't believe I'm saying this but CLEAN[ish]) rap and maybe we write like killer lines. Because my favorite part of the poems I listen to everyone else say that really gets me pumped are those sweet one or two lines that are just straight fire. I think it'd be cool if we did a day of just good lines we can build poems off of or around.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, our in class discussions are what make me woke. They can't be replicated or relived. They bring new ideas and perspectives in on subjects I didn't even know I cared about beforehand. Also, I love having journal jams/open mics. There is a sort of spirit there that is so unique and I crave that feeling after a while. I think that a class collaboration would help us stay woke. I like Malia's idea of creating a class poem. It would be so sick if after we are done with our final product, we took it and performed it somewhere or made something super artistic inspired by it.
ReplyDeleteIt would also be so sick if we performed some poetry and put it onto a cd and gave them out at the end of the school year. We could vote on which poems from the class would go on there and we could practice performing them or mashing them together.
DeleteThese ideas got me woke.
ReplyDeletei'm most woke when our class comes together in this creative force of togetherness. i love the class poem idea. i love the fake UN idea. i guess i'm just a fan of collaborating and meshing with other creative people. i don't know, maybe we should have more fake events like the noscars or the live chat or killer discussions in class about things that apply to being creative and life and finding out who we are. maybe also what i'm trying to say is i'm still trying to figure out how i stay woke.
ReplyDeleteOpen mics. That makes me feel more alive than anything. Sharing my thoughts out loud is the scariest thing for me to do, but I for those few moments I forget who I am and where I am, it's just all about the words and that's everything to me.
ReplyDelete1. Journal. It's something tangible. The rough draft... beautiful and messy all at once. Blog is second on the list. It's not so tangible but it's so amazing when you finally get to post something you feel proud of and other people notice and comment. I don't like the project so much... haha
ReplyDelete2. I loved the day we did mad libs. It got all my creative juices flowing and I came out of that class feeling like it really is possible to get out of a writing slump. I was excited to get back into the swing of things. (: I also like watching those inspirational videos where the content makes you feel pumped and it also has that feel good music playing in the background and it all just works so good together that you just get chills up and down your spine, and you come out of class feeling on top of the world and like you can conquer anything life throws at you and you couldn't be more excited about it.
3. LET'S DO MORE MAD LIBS!!! let's steal poems, remove some words and boom. mad libs.
1. Journal-I can bear it up and call it beautiful. Art is a beautiful mess. I can write and sometimes it inspires me to write more. I feel more free to do things in it that I wouldn’t on the blog. Also, I'm not able to do the same creative things there.
ReplyDelete2. Mini-slams! Like, really. We are so honest and vulnerable and it creates trust. Also, I'm always aspiring to be like some of the other AMAZING writers in this class. It gets my creative thoughts coming.
3. I have an idea!!!! We need something to write how we stay woke and how we get to a state of woke when we're stuck. Like so: "have a dance party, sing, think all alone, go on a nature walk, play dress up, steal like an artist, lie awake in bed pondering the deep meanings of life, etc..." Then do some of them as a class. Obviously we can't do all of them, for lack of time and just not being able to do it as a class, but we could be challenged to do sone on our own. And if we do it, I'd say we'very already started with a pretty good list.
1. Journal. I like doing the journal because you write what's on your mind, directly. Then the extra five lets you do what you want to do on five(ten if you count the backs) of paper. I love seeing what Nelson and everyone else comes up with journal prompts. The blog is not my favorite, personally. Just because I can't always find the time of it to read them and write them each week. Plus, hardly anyone gives feedback or reads mine as I can see. But I'm not complaining. I like doing the projects half and half sometimes I get so busy caught up in school and my personal life that I can't work on it as much but I feel like it's fun to see what other people have done and then see what I can come up with. So half and half.
ReplyDelete2. Activity- I enjoyed when we just went outside, it was different and nice even though my butt started hurtin from the bleachers haha.
I also really liked when Billy rapped for us and when we went to Sundance festival. Even though it was just the movie I really liked it.
I feel like we could go on more adventures like to the pond or walk to a different park or go somewhere inexpensive and write. Learn. It made me woke because of how connected I felt with Billy, how real and raw and just different, I know him because he use to be friends with my brother we called him "brownie" I knew his family too. When he shared his drug use and personal life I knew most of it but still felt super connected and real.
I felt woke with the outside because of all the AMAZING poems shared and just felt so nice outside in the open and sunshine and the breeze felt great. I felt woke in the Sundance festival because it was cool to learn more about Micheal Jackson in good ways and it was sorta inspiring to a point. I also liked being on the bus and thinking about things, looking out on the cars and just life passing by us. Most days I feel woke in this class but some days I also don't know what to feel because of how hectic everything can be but still I love it.
We need to be woke in our lives for many different purposes and reasons, mainly if we aren't woke we won't truly be living we would just be breathing and surviving and not alive, not woke. Whatever makes us feel alive, feel woke, and keeps us in our flow, we should do. I found several things that make me feel and do all those things through this class and on my own time and I still have yet to find more of my wokeness. And flowable works.
i second every idea in here.
Delete1. Journal- when there is a good prompt and good music I could write forever I'm writing what I want in the moment I don't have to worry about making it perfect for others
ReplyDelete2. Mini slams, it's real it's fresh it fun there isn't any pressure to have to do it.
3. NEW blog posts prompts I think people aren't doing the blog any,ore because you keep giving us the same prompts we need new stuff we want to write about different things, I think we should go back to you giving the journal prompts idk why I just liked it better when you did it
I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI can make anything with my hands but my mind stumbles to think of a creative writing prompt or journal entry.
We could make a replica of the paris tower with popsicle sticks...
That sounds fun.
1)Blog 2)Journal 3)Project -- I like the projects but I feel like the idea of them is trying too hard, I love that they promote the creative process but honestly I feel like one would've been enough. I still really like the blogs because they feel incredibly personal but others can still view your work whereas a journal can only be shared during journal jams.
ReplyDeleteClass activity I personally feel has been pretty dead-- I think the most involved I've seen us as a class was when we were live tweeting the Oscars.
I like talking about flow in class and I like that we're coming up with out own prompts.
1. My blog is my favorite. I've never been artsy or anything but words always make me feel better.
ReplyDelete2. Journal jams are the best, and I know this was last semester but I really liked making poems out of books we passed around.
3. I think it'd help to watch more poems on youtube or something. Or like that video with the dad and son dancing.
1 ) it all kinda goes in phases for me i guess. right now i am not super into my blog but i have lots of ideas for my journal, but there's been times where that's been opposite. so idk really
ReplyDelete2 ) hmm after i write something i get super into this class. but i need that spark. i think having blogs due consistently helps with that ? because lately there haven't been posts due & i haven't been writing, i couldn't even if i tried. i think i need the pressure of a dead line to inspire me.
3 ) let's shake it up a little bit. let's do lindseys bucket list.
Agreed the bucket list is a must for this class.
Delete1. I love to have a due date for things I've wanted to do but haven't found the time. So thanks for that. Projects are cool. And I've always loved my blog and journal I'm not really sure how to rank them
ReplyDelete2. The first project was like unnnhhh we all worked on something creative and valuable in its own way and I loved to see what everyone made and loves to do and we're all so different but so the same. #woke
ReplyDelete3. I agree with Rachel, shake it up. Also I don't like to just redo the prompts that we did first semester i.e. #different, love, etc. we should keep doing new prompts because my journal and my blog are being forgotten and that makes me sad.
^^ i don't like doing the same prompts that we did for CW1 it's like reverse wokeness
Deletenew new new new new enwnew enwe nwnew new enw
^^^^ solid things. I like to have more time to work on journalZ. :)
ReplyDelete1. Projects make me woke. I don't do much for them but when I do work on them I'm always in a state of flow and I am the most woke for that.
ReplyDelete2. The oscars had me woke, they made me think about creativity in a different way and I loved how you don't just have to write to be creative and even in this class you don't have to write to be creative.
3. I think staying woke is a personal thing. It's up to the person as to whether or not they can be woke. But as for the class as a whole I think it is just a matter of doing things we normally wouldn't do. Stepping out of our comfort zone.
1. Projects on a scale of 1 - woke= 3 red bulls for breakfast. I love doing the projects because there are no restrictions. We have creative reign over what we want to bring to the table, whether that be a gigantic clock of nelsons head, a painting, mixtape, etc etc etc. when I get ideas in my head of what I want to do, the motivation is there because it's specific to what I want to create.
ReplyDelete2. *spontaneity* I loved that billy came to rap out of nowhere. I love that there are no rules in the creative process. I didn't think mad libs could go as well as it did. I loved hearing what other people had to share and that some classmates actually liked the idea. My heart gets really happy when I see people that have worked really hard on something and they get to share it, that's why I think that project and mini slams are so important. The video contest was super fun for me personally because writing the screenplay and seeing it actually come through the way I saw it in the first place was so rewarding: it was like I had done something right.
3. Let's go on a cw2 family field trip. Farther than LP pond. I find that I stay woke in places that aren't involved in my everyday grind. I have loved looking through all of these comments and seeing what other people think. I think we should just have a day where we throw out ideas on the whiteboard, kinda like a bucket list @lindseyhuish??? And actually accomplish. And yes, I guess that's what this is... Haha now I'm just rambling.
I love how I leave class not being taught about the structure of poetry or when Shakespeare died or any of the boring stuff.(who likes old dead white guys anyway) But I leave class learning how about my creative process. You have taught us how to find ourselves.
agree to numero 2 - spontanity keeps me woke. and i love doing the different prompts. everyone is so creative and it gets my mind goin - i love when we do prompts and then journal jams and people get excited about sharing what they just have wrtttten
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ReplyDeleteI love the journals, I loved the blogs but i think that was more exciting as a CW1 student, i don't know why. maybe the mystery of it? I still love the blogs - iguess we just need to find some motivation behind it. before it was the anticipation/anxiety/nervousness of no one knowing who you are that mad sunday night blogging so excting. i want to get back into blogging again, maybe we just need to find that exctiment again some how.
I love the projects - it pushes me and I like how you give us the freedom to basically do what ever we want. no your typical project with a million different requirments and a 3 page overveiw of our feelings after the project. bleh
journals are just my favorite.
it's hard to stay woke at school in general because you do the same dang thing every day. and we get to your class at 12:53 every other day and stay for exactly 82 minutes and our bodies go into this cycle that i think we are all so sick of by now.
go out side more (have class in places other than room 221)
open dicussions
get off topic
(i love how we switch off doing prompts - it keeps me woke)
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i like learning about new things to keep us woke. the whole "flow" thing last time was nuts. i loved that - cool lessons like that really open my mind
should do more of the bucket list
i enjoy this class
i'm still pondering but it's 2:19 in the am and it's dayight savings so it's techinically 3:19 am
that makes me #zac :((
i liked looking at blogs in CW1
ReplyDeletemaybe we can look at blogs one day - both CW1 &CW2 - reading other peoples stuff always inspires me
1. I like the journal and the project stuff. Maybe continuing to watercolor like a mad, rabid dog is a copout but I do what I do and honestly if it wasn't what I wanted to do then it wouldn't be worth it.
ReplyDeleteI especially like that I choose whether or not I actually write what prompt it is or not
2. It's 4 something in the morning and I just finished a nice big writing project of mine and I honestly can't remember. I'm hardly coherent and autocorrect is a savior.
I think getting to write is the best part. I'm cool with the journal jams but most of the time I zone out and end up drawing and I feel horrible for it because I'm not paying attention not really even if I hear them
I hear them still. I promise
I just
If I sit I fall asleep and if I fall asleep important crap goes down and I never end up knowing about it.
I'm sorry for having bored hands
Besides those
I really liked going outside but in a few weeks I won't be able to I mean there's bees outside and I just can't do bees I die if I hear a fly buzzing around my ear just imagine if it was an actual real live bee or hornet or wasp or something
I would flip tables
I would make a table out of nothing and flip it and run.
I will collapse into a puddle of tears or I will run.
Bees are satan.
3. ...
Y'know just get us excited. Make it cool.
But not too cool. It gets uncool when we try too hard to make it cool and that doesn't end well
It's gotta be that effortless cool that's slick and sly and
What am I even going on about? It's a miracle I even remembered to finish this as it's been in my docs 'to do' pile since you first texted out that text.
But
I'm here
Completely loopy and ready to rumble..!
Nels I was too busy being woke (#shortfilm #drovetomyauntshousetofilmherchildren #butnotinacreepyway) this weekend to comment and now I feel bad.
ReplyDeleteThe blog and projects have me really woke but I suck at the journal but I'm still trying trying trying. The projects are a nice excuse to do creative stuff I might've not had the motivation to do otherwise. I've felt most creative working on my short film's screenplay in Starbucks like the hipster that I am. This short film has been two months of work and what if it sucks and can we screen it on Friday?
I felt really woke in class on Friday. It's fun to get a little more intellectual sometimes and learn about bigger concepts. I know most people find it boring but I think the class really trusts you and is willing to sit through a European guy mumble for thirty minutes if you think there's something to get out of it. I also really loved the movie day but I'm totally biased.
To be woke in class - maybe we should do projects more often ? It might end up being a quantity vs quality issue but I wanna do more and I don't have enough projects for everything.
The first step to staying woke is people people people people. Meet new ones and try new things and push your comfort zones but not your standards. Just keep making things and connections.
I think projects are awesome because not all of us are creative writers, but we're all (capable of being) creative artists. Although writing is a great art form, there are plenty more, and the projects help prove and strengthen that.
ReplyDeleteBlogging was a big hit in CW1 because I think the anonymity was a form of being woke, but unfortunately I think the novelty has worn off a bit. Not quite sure why, or how to recreate it, but I think we can.
I wasn't here when we talked about being woke, so I'm going out on a limb when I guess it means something similar to feeling alive. If so, I'm not sure what activities have really made me feel woke. I mean, each day I feel something different in class, which I appreciate and somedays are quieter and more thoughtful, some are outgoing and energetic. I don't have a preference when it comes down to the two, I just like the class as a whole.
I echo Rachel, Megan, Amber, Megan, and Lindsey (others too): lets do that bucket list. Try to cross something off each day, live spontaneously, be risky, be messy.
I'm sure I have other thoughts, just not at the moment.
1. So far the projects have me woke the most. I love just getting into the flow. Granted, it may not happen often but when it does it's awesome. The blogs are ok. I haven't done it in a while (sorry Nelson) but I feel like I lost my motivation for it??? I don't know. Maybe I should've made a whole new blog for CW2 instead of just keeping mine from CW1. Lastly, journals. I feel 100000% unmotivated to do them. I thought at first it was just a one time thing and I'd get back in the groove. But really I just can't. I haven't done a prompt since the last time we turned them in. I've noticed I'm not the only one like that. Not to sell anyone out but most the people I sit around hasn't done much/any either. I feel like there are people who rock the journals and they're just beautiful and amazing and then there are those that are so good at the blogs. Their blog is clean, neat, fancy and the writing is so good. Aaaaaaaaaaaand then there's me who kinda stinks at both. I'm sure there are those that rock at both but I don't exactly go around the room asking to see everyone's journal to compare it to their blog.
ReplyDelete2. The class activity that's had me the most woke would be project #1. I got so into it and worked really hard on my project and thought that it turned out great. I liked seeing what others did for their projects. Helped give me some ideas. I especially liked the ones where people made something for each person in the class. I'm a sentimental sap so having mementos of the good times in CW2 are great for me. I also really like open mics. I like them being called open mics rather than journal jams because as said before my journaling is in the toilet and it makes me feel awkward/uncomfortable to get up at a JOURNAL jam without my journal even though you say that's ok. Which is why I didn't get up last time when we went outside. Rather just read something from my personal writings.
3. Maybe make journal and blog optional (either or. you can't just not do both) that way it helps those who get inspired to do the journal more or the blog more and if you want to do both go the freak ahead! But that would probably be too hard to grade. I don't know...
I feel like CW2 lives off of spontaneousnus. Loved when Billy came and rapped. It was cool seeing someone do something that they're good at. They're proud of. And most importantly something that they love to do. I also liked how Sam came today. That was random even though he didn't stay long. I like how we went outside on Thursday because why not?
first....i'm super late and super sorry!
ReplyDelete1. I love our journals and I love our blogs. I haven't been the best at still posting on my blog but I don't want to stop. Also I feel like we need better prompts for our journal and blog because I feel like the ones we've had so far don't really give me any ideas on what to write on. Like 'dance moves' and 'doors' and 'lemons' are original and different, but don't spark any room for creativity(just my opinion.) But I feel like i'm liking the projects more, it's just a transition and took some getting used to.
2. A class activity that i've liked is when we are trying to get stuff done on our class bucket list. It makes us appreciate that class more because it's fun and we're getting really cool things accomplished.
3. if we get really great prompts for our journals and blogs, and we do the 'big brother program' and we make the most of every class period, that will definitely help us stay woke.