Publishing Experience

I was a little nervous when I arrived for the first class of the semester. I really had no clue what was going to happen, what we were going to be doing.
I think I started enjoying myself when we began reading the Dust and Fire pieces. I realized I've been kinda of limited when it comes to critiquing pieces. I've only done that in classes like Writing Fiction and Non-Fiction. I was nice to read pieces from women of different ages and from different places. In a way, it was very similar to a workshop class. 
As for New Voices, I felt my experience in this was very similar to Dust and Fire but different because we were going through the same process but adjusting our view of the subject matter and the writing styles. It remind me so much of high school and all the writing projects we did.

This class, like other workshop classes, has shown me what editors and publishers want when looking for a piece of writing. I saw the other end of the spectrum. I think this will definitely change my view of my writing. I feel like I may write more to an audience now. I might work on figuring out who I want my audience to be.

I do think I will work on getting my writing published. Even though it is intimidating, because publishers and editors in the real world are harsher in their decisions (I would assume) then we were in our decisions. I will have a tough struggle to get much published, but I'm willing to try.