I’ve found that my love for teaching, goes beyond and above many hurdles.
I’ve been running writing workshops online and in person. People who don’t actually want to write, I realise later, and people who are not keen to do any work question these workshops. They find a hundred and one reasons, why they should not do the work, ie not attend the workshop but instead find faults with it.
Here’s a little of the commentary…
“I write horror, so I won’t attend.”
Well, I don’t teach a genre per se, but if you follow my course your writing will improve regardless of whether you work in the sci-fi, horror, fantasy, poetry genre…
“I am a journalist, specialising in crypto, will you be teaching that?”
“Will you hire me?”
No
“Will this get me a job?”
Depends on you and the job market but also what job you go for.
“Do I have to be here every week?”
“Do you only write poetry?”
What they don’t want to do the research and the writing in between. Writing isn’t just turning up for a few sessions and then publishing a book. Writing means you sit on that chair, and you write regularly. But some students don’t want to do that.
“I’m here to check your course out. I keep my eyes on courses and have been to many. Yours popped up and I’m here to test it.”
