Club Spotlight: Creative Writing Club

Every Tuesday, students get together to pool creative ideas together at MHS’s Creative Writing Club, run by Nicole Scherder, language arts teacher.

Daphne Wang, junior, is the vice president of Creative Writing Club.

“It’s a meeting of questionably sane people who have too many thoughts to not put on paper,” Wang said. “So instead of staying silent, on Tuesday afternoons we congregate and share our madness with others, whether it be in the form of an old crumpled notebook paper or a 50,000 word contest entry.”

Wang quotes James Dickey in saying that members of the Creative Writing Club are people who “stand outside in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning.”

Trishna Limaye, junior, agrees with Wang.

“This year is my second year as president, and what makes it especially fun is getting to hear unique, and strange, ideas we wouldn’t otherwise hear,” Limaye said. “That definitely leads to some rather interesting conversations.”

“Currently, we’re working on improving general writing skills through prompts and edits, which is always a good time,” Limaye said. “My favorite thing we’ve done so far was finding really horrendous beginnings to novels and trying to imagine where in the world the author was trying to go.”

“And now I must hop into the promotion bandwagon – join Creative Writing Club,” Limaye said. “Why? Because we’re fun and cool, and there’s free food. Who doesn’t like free food? Nobody, that’s who.”