On a dark stormy night, in Harlem high school you walked down a hallway. You see a classroom at the end of the English wing. At room W164 a club lies, the Creative Writing Club. The small but mighty club student run club fosters the creativity and ideas of some of the next great writers. Creative Writing Club prompts students involved to come up with stories exploring different protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and settings.
At each club meeting, students are presented with prompts to develop unique stories to bring new ideas to leave. Each distinctive prompt gets shuffled in a pile and you get to write a story with all random protagonist, an antagonist, conflict, and setting that you get 15 minutes to write. Then you can share what you wrote to the club or have Mr. Schwitters provide feedback. Just find out your writing voice and what style you like to write about. They met every other Monday for forty-five minutes after school.
This club allows students to be creative in their written expression, it’s an outlet to tell the world who you are as a person and a voice that people do not usually see. As a student-run club, students support one another in their creative endeavors, not a place to judge what you write. It is a club for creative expression. One of the prompts the club has done is AI gives you a tile and makes it into a horror blurb. A blurb is the background of the story to read; it is on the back of every book you read. Mr Schwitters gives the prompt or you can suggest prompts for the group of students to write in their own style but still the same prompt.
That Creative Writing club is not just about writing. They will sometimes just explore different forms of narrative structure, like analog horror or even an ARG. An analog horror is horror but looking older then how it actually is. An ARG is an Alternate Reality Game which means the reality that you see is not the one you live in. They explored are explored and learned about one occasion that can connect to either of these genres.
The Creative Writing Club not only allows for students to express themselves, but it can also help with scholarships to support future writers explore their passions. Since this club helps students learn and use new ideas and topics so you can fill out the scholarships, they have writing samples ready to go when scholarships open for applications. There are many scholarship opportunity for students who wish to pursue writing as a career choice. The club helps prepare students to increase their chances of earning scholarships for students’ futures.
In the Creative Writing Club at Harlem the adviser, Mr Schwitters will give prompts for you to write. You will learn how AI can help you with writing. It’s some kind of exercise for the brain to keep running if you think it would be helpful for your brain. Senior Rexton Kirk, one of the members of the creative writing club said, “Creative writing club is a club where you can create your own story, that you can write it however you want.”
The Adviser of the Creative Writing Club, Mr Schwitters. “I really like actives we mix and match things with certain elements of their stories.”
Future writers can explore many topics and ideas that interest them. Write about dragons in love, write about a god being your principal for a day or even war in Britain that has Napoleon’s reign. If you are interested in find your writing voice, attend Creative Writing Clubs’ meetings on Mondays in W164.
