Mrs. Goyne Rewrites Blake’s Creative Writing Class

Last year’s Creative Writing and Stories class was a bit disjointed because the initial teacher was on leave for the majority of the year, and students mostly worked with a long-term substitute who had little experience with creative writing. This year, there is a new teacher, Mrs. Goyne, and she is trying her best to make this class as enjoyable as possible. She said that she took the opportunity to teach this class because she “taught four other English 12 classes” and “always loved Creative Writing” herself, and that she “taught it in middle school.”

When asked about the differences between her normal English class and the Novel Writing classes, the main difference that she pointed out is that since Creative Writing is an elective, it’s more relaxed, and they spend almost all of their time doing Creative Writing. She was also asked why students should enroll in this class next year and she said that if you like writing you should take this class next year since that’s all they do.

Two new Creative Writing and Stories students were also interviewed and asked why they took this class. William Zheng said that he had been “writing for over six years” and that “if you finish your credits, this is a great class for you.”

Bailey Nimmons also had a similar answer, saying that she loves “writing [and] making stories.” When they were asked how Mrs. Goyne changed the class, they talked about how last year, they heard it was an unproductive class. Now that they’re in the class with Mrs. Goyne, everyone is writing way more than they expected.

When asked what they would tell a student who wants to join the class, Mrs. Goyne said that students always “spend [their] time writing.”

William agreed, saying that this class is “mainly for taking different concepts and then writing about them, and not really particularly focusing on one story, but different kinds.”

“The teacher is nice and helpful” and that you get to “work together with students” a lot, noted Bailey.