On Monday, Feb. 26, students from all grade levels stopped in room A337 to experience the first writers workshop hosted by the Mirrors Literary Magazine.

Students on the Mirrors team have been planning this event for weeks, with one failed attempt that they are saying is due to not getting the word out fast enough or soon enough. There has been a lot of effort put into planning the activities, choosing prompts, and figuring out the set up, but it was all worth it.

When asked what she thought was most beneficial about the writer’s workshop, sophomore Eleanor Hainey said, “that they left me alone.”

“If you’re writing and someone comes up to ask you ‘hey how’s your writing going,’ you know they have good intentions but sometimes I feel like that can break people out of the inspiration streak that they’re in,” Hainey said .

Members of the club, specifically sophomores Sophia Fisher and Catherine Evans, helped to lead numerous activities that were meant to boost creativity, provide ideas, and give people the chance to be creative with support and an idea rather than just a blank canvas.

“The most beneficial part was that you get a lot of good ideas to write about,” sophomore Bridget Tully said. “Sometimes you don’t know what to write about, but when you are given some prompts you get more inspired.”

Everyone seemed to enjoy having the option of picking a prompt. Though this writer’s workshop didn’t exactly fit the definition, the Mirror’s team accomplished their goal of helping to provide inspiration.

“I would say that picking the little prompts out of the jar [was highly beneficial], just because it gives you a lot of creative liberty with whatever you choose,” junior Vivienne Butera said.

Overall the event was successful; though, in the future, the Mirrors team hopes to make the next event more organized along with having more time to broadcast.

“It felt like people who already knew each other clumped together, so we’ll need an icebreaker,” sophomore Sophia Fisher said. “We definitely should incorporate different types of activities because right now we really only have prompts.”

Though a lot of good came out of this writer’s workshop, they definitely want to change some things for the next time they have this type of event.

“The thing that needs to change is that they shouldn’t have such addictive snacks,” Hainey said. “Also they shouldn’t overwhelm students with such a variety of activities. They should just have one or two and then students can really focus on just one.”

At the last meeting, members tried to organize this week’s event, scrambling to get together exact details and plan out the activities. After the first version of this event not going as planned, members worked together, planning this next event, emailing and texting back and forth to finalize details through Sunday night.