I
have been teaching Creative Writing at my high school this year. It's the first
time the class has been offered in nearly a decade. I have awesome, dedicated,
creative kids. It's
been an amazing experience.
And
I've been scared out of my mind.
What
if I screw this up? What if I look like an idiot? What sort of math teacher
teaches Creative Writing? What if a critique crushes someone's soul and they never write
again? What if I have the writer of the next great American novel in my class
and she sees how pitiful my writing is?
It
all boils down to: What if I'm not good enough?
Of
course, I deal with that often enough in writing itself. Maybe these harpies
sound familiar to you:
What
if I write the best I can, put everything I have on the page and it isn't good
enough?
Or, worse yet…
