Goal of this Project

I decided to be a teaching assistant for the Worldbuilding intensive because of how impactful this class was for me when I took it as a sophomore. Before taking the class, I was a really big fan of fantasy stories, but I never saw them as something I could create myself. Taking the class introduced me to the possibility of creating them by thoroughly demonstrating how some of the best authors all begin to create the worlds they use for their stories. For my final creative project, I wrote a set of short stories, which was my first foray into creative writing. Presently, writing is one of my biggest passions and I want to be a writer for a career, so I attribute this class to my discovery of this. Since this class was so important to me, my goal is to help make the class even more engaging and broad by bringing in my own interests and helping teach the students about them, so that more people might discover how fun it is to create fiction from this class.

To help with this goal, I would also like to learn how to teach people by learning from Rennie and Zach. Currently, I am not great at expressing my thoughts to other people in an engaging way, and I have no experience with teaching. My main product to learn this with is the workshops that each TA is running. We will each do one on our own as well as others together, so I would like to learn from each workshop how I could make the next one more engaging for the students.

Overall, my goal is to learn how to be an engaging teacher and expose people to new ideas around creative writing.

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