Creative Writing Club- Story modification

I have currently entered a brainstorming phase for a new story I'm planning on starting. It may be a modified version of the story I was mentioning earlier, which I'd planned on finishing, though now that I look at it, the beginning doesn't feel right. It just throws you in. There's no buildup of tension. I think it'd be more effective if it started differently, which is why I'm going to trash the beginning I was working on and starting it afresh and very differently, because if you can't capture the audience at the beginning there's no way they'll finish the book unless there's nothing else to read at all. I know this myself, because there's been books I've started to read and the first pages don't draw me in, so I toss them aside and read something else. So, hopefully this change will help me draw the audience in and keep them interested. I thought the beginning I had was good, but after looking at it I realised that despite all the action in the first page, it comes of dry and shallow, almost transparent. So I've decided to change the beginning. What I'm going to change it into though, is as of yet, still unclear; unfourtuantly I have nothing to bring in this Thursday, but hopfully my revised beginning will be ready by the next meeting.

Film Club- Supervisor Change

As of the last meeting (Fri. Sept. 25) the supervisor has changed. Instead of Mr. Knittle our new supervisor is Mr. McDowell. This is for all upcoming meetings as well. Our next meeting is on Friday, and this time we will spend a great deal of discussing the movies we've seen up to this point instead of watching another. To date, we've watched Halloween (I was not able to make this one), Plan 9 from Outer Space, and Poltergeist.

Creative Writing 2

This week in the Creative club meeting there was a little more discussion, but it was mostly more housekeeping; more introductions, what we like to read and write and wrote our emails in. We discussed what we'd do if there was a meeting in which no one brough any work in, and talked about a poem someone brought in.

Film Club 2

This time I was able to stay for the whole meeting. During this meeting we watched the film Poltergeist, and discussed the various aspects of the film, the high points and the low points, what they had done well and what we thought they could improve on. Throughout this we reflected on various ways that the filmmakers enhanced the features of the film. The fact that the one who went missing was a little girl and the way the used their special features to enhance the terror. I think I may be gettting better at recognizing the feature used in film making but there is still tons of room for improvement.

Creative Writing #1

The introductory meeting to the Creative Writing Club took place Thursday, and we all got a feel for what it will be like. I already have a piece I'm working on though I'm not sure it's ready to be brought in to the club yet; it barely has a plot.

Film Club #1

The second meeting for film club was 2 days ago. I missed the first one because I was unaware that it was taking place. We watched Plan 9 from Outer Space, a movie from the 1950s, mainly to show how not to make a movie as it was bad all around; bad acting, bad effects, and bad directing. I had to leave halfway through but next week I'll be able to stay for the whole thing.