學(xué)生習(xí)作｜記我成為“創(chuàng)意作家”的兩周時(shí)光

自2018年起，為了提升學(xué)生的寫作能力，G10年級英語高階班EFL課堂上引進(jìn)了創(chuàng)意寫作項(xiàng)目（Creative Writing），幫助學(xué)生在文學(xué)創(chuàng)作中拓展詞匯量，發(fā)展創(chuàng)意思維，并鼓勵(lì)他們成長為文學(xué)創(chuàng)作者。

My Two-Week Journey of Being a Creative Writer in my EFL Class

G10E Humming Li

I am Humming Li who is studying in grade 10 English Advanced Class. My current English teachers are Ms. Jona Zhang and Ms. Jocelyn Ymbong whom I have the privilege to be taught on our subject- English First Language (EFL). They gave us a lots of reading and writing assignments but the one I have been working on for a longer period of time and found the most interesting is the narrative writing project assigned by Ms. Ymbong.

It was at some time of quarter four that Ms. Ymbong brought this project to the class. She emphasized the importance of the project because it will go to a big piece of our quarter grade and she will publish our work on some website. We were given two weeks to finish the whole process of writing. The first thing that Ms. Ymbong asked us to do was to have an idea on what genre our story will be like before she handed out a worksheet (story mountain planner) for us to fill out.

記我成為“創(chuàng)意作家”的兩周時(shí)光

英文原稿|G10E 李穎格

我是G10年級英語高階班的李穎格，目前有幸由Ms. Jona和Ms. Jocelyn教授我們英語第一語言課程(EFL)。兩位老師給我們布置過許多閱讀、寫作的任務(wù)，但花費(fèi)時(shí)間精力較多并有趣的是Ms. Jocelyn布置的敘事寫作項(xiàng)目。

那是在第四學(xué)季的某一段時(shí)間，Ms. Jocelyn把這一課程項(xiàng)目帶到課堂上，她還強(qiáng)調(diào)了這一寫作項(xiàng)目的重要性——它在我們學(xué)季評分成績占一個(gè)很大的比重，最終作品還會(huì)被發(fā)布到一些網(wǎng)站上。我們需要在2周內(nèi)完成整個(gè)創(chuàng)作過程，Ms. Jocelyn要求我們做的第一件事情，是先確定好自己要寫哪一種類型的故事，再由此去填寫她給出的(“故事山”)表格。

I thought that I would need to spend a lengthier time on this project compared to the other writings I did in this school year. Thus I thought it would be a good idea if it is a two-to-three thousand word novella. I did not feel like writing an imagination-based story, so I opted for a realistic fiction as the genre of my novella.

Then, I pictured in my mind what my story would be like – Everything happens at a peaceful time and takes place in a small, remote village. Meanwhile, there are some conflicts happening throughout in this story of this ordinary family I had created in my mind. When I thought about the conflict(s) of the story, I did not consider taking in the complicated ones into my story because it is going to be a short work and the conflicts does not have to be big to reveal a bigger theme. As one may read on my article, one of the conflicts in the passages is based on the boy, Akimoto, who have internal issues on overcoming his fear.

一開始我便認(rèn)為，相較本學(xué)年其它寫作項(xiàng)目，我需要在這個(gè)項(xiàng)目上花費(fèi)更長的時(shí)間，所以我覺得一篇2000-3000字的短篇小說會(huì)是一個(gè)好主意。因?yàn)椴簧瞄L構(gòu)造一個(gè)虛擬的世界，所以我最終選擇了走現(xiàn)實(shí)小說路線。

接下來，我在腦海里構(gòu)思——一切發(fā)生在一個(gè)平和又偏遠(yuǎn)的小村落里。在這時(shí)，我筆下的平凡家庭——將會(huì)陸續(xù)遭遇一些沖突，我并沒有創(chuàng)造太復(fù)雜的情節(jié)，這是一篇比較短的文章，而且不需要通過大型沖突隱喻一個(gè)更深的寓意。正如大家在我文章中所讀到的一樣，故事沖突是基于秋本——一個(gè)無法戰(zhàn)勝內(nèi)心恐懼的男孩。

學(xué)生們制作的故事山、故事板海報(bào)

Just like this, I put down some words on the worksheet and started to do the next assignment. We were required to make a poster or our storyboard, which shows the storyline of our writing. I drew a story mountain planner on the poster paper and included ‘exposition’, ‘rising action’, ‘climax’, ‘falling action’, and ‘resolution’ on it.

After this, the composition time had finally come. I checked out the lists of vocabulary in terms of dialogue, character traits, physical traits and sensory words which were provided by Ms. Ymbong for us to use in our writing and tried to add some of them into story. The first draft of my writing was written until climax and it contained many grammatical mistakes. After Ms. Ymbong proofread and pointed them out to me, I corrected them and finished the rest of my story. I found a picture, which I think fits my final draft and sent them to Ms. Ymbong to publish.

So you think writing is tiresome and boring? Well, surprisingly, I found myself enjoying the creative process that I went through being a writer. I hope other students will find it interesting as I do and if you have not read my story yet, please click on Read more on the left corner at the bottom. ENJOY READING!