Response to Live Readings

This was my first live reading of the semester and I enjoyed myself. I was glad I got to witness the two different genres, I thought that was a very interesting way to promote creative writing, as I enjoy writing both. I thought each reader had their own distinct style of reading, even though they both seemed a little uncomfortable on stage. I suppose that why writer's write though, they like to hide behind their words. Ok, maybe not hide. But I can understand being nervous just the same. What I really liked was that I was able to immerse my children in the culture, even if they didn't understand most of it. We had a really cool discussion on the way home and now my son is constantly trying to find new ways of describing things. Like on the way home form baseball we stopped to get gas and he said the grass looked like thousands of reaching fingers. It made me smile. I am definitely going to try to make it to more of these events next semester.