Creative Trauma: My Undergraduate English Major Experience 2013-2019

Or How I Got My ART SCAR

Hello Storytellers! I’ll jump right in.

I spoke last time about how in my undergraduate creative writing workshop, my professor took my workshop piece, threw it on the floor over his shoulder, and called it trash.

That “trash” is now available widely on multiple bookstores such as Barnes & Noble, Apple Books and Apple Audible, Bookshop, Everand, Fable, Kobo, Smashwords, and Amazon available as an e-book, paperback and audible.

Back in 2014, sitting in class that day, totally mortified, put a scar on my psyche. Even though after that I managed to gear up and decide that I wasn’t going to quit writing, it wasn’t actually easy to KEEP writing.

I’ve had to write past words running in my head “you suck at writing,” and “this is terrible” and “you should stop writing” because of this incident of a writing professor treating my work like trash.

You see, it wasn’t only Professor C who actually treated my work like trash by throwing it on the floor and straight up calling it trash to my face.