Getting ideas and sharing your own with other writers is nice and all, especially when you’re stuck, but for some reason it just really made me uncomfortable in class the other day.
I tend to be a rather quiet, reserved person, and I try not to talk unless I have something really important to say. I have so many ideas floating around in my head that when I try to explain just one of them by word of mouth I tend to get my tongue twisted, and I lose my train of thought altogether. I’m sure the creative collaboration activity in class was helpful for a lot of people, but it really just didn’t work for me. My partner was great, don’t get me wrong; she did her part very well. But just as I’ve said, the little bit of my story that I did have pieced together at the time was shattered as soon as I started attempting to explain it to her. The more I spoke about my story idea the more confused I became, and the more my story started to sound dull and somewhat cliché.
I think sharing my work is a great way for me to grow as a writer and learn from mistakes only others can find. But in contrast, sharing my work before I’m even close to being done is just too hard on my train of thought. I can’t explain to someone where I’m headed before I even know where I’m going. That is just far too complicated for my busy mind.
Bly Dirt 
I get what you mean. I honestly am in a similar boat, where I felt that this exercise wasn’t too helpful when it came to this assignment as a whole. In my case, I knew the story idea I had in class wouldn’t be what I’d write on for the final assignment, because it was just too off the walls crazy and unique, and hard to explain fully through verbal words… I honestly feel like this collaboration thing would have worked better if it were a week long project or were approached in an ever so slightly way to make it more drawn out so that people can get their full ideas.
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I felt the same way about this activity. I was completely underprepared and frankly my story just sounded stupid when I was trying to explain it. I do think sharing your writing is important but it was hard for me to see the value in it when I barely even knew my story, then trying to explain it to someone else!
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