Students got to express themselves through writing when the department of writing and linguistics and the Georgia Southern National Writing Project hosted Pizza-for-Prose on Thursday, Oct. 20.

To celebrate the National Day on Writing, the department brought students and faculty in front of Lakeside Cafe to share the art of writing while enjoying pizza.

The pizza was a way to get students to want to come and write, but turned out not being the most important aspect of the project.

“It’s important for people to express their creativity,” said Lynn Hamilton, lecturer for the writing and linguistics department.“Students are not doing it for the pizza, but because they enjoy it.”

The cool, breezy weather added to the whim of the event as papers hung up on clothes pins blew in the wind.

Despite the conditions, writers of all kinds showed their skills with a smile on their faces.

Many students tried to keep up with their papers as the wind blew, but they were dedicated to getting their words out.

Speaking of her piece, Marti McCrory, junior political science major said, “I hope someone reads it and it inspires them to write or it helps them out in some way.”

The department provided writing materials and prompts so everyone had the opportunity to partake in this event.

The prompts were designed for students to write from their own angles without research.

Students received slips of paper with topics that read similar to “Superman had his fortress of Solitude at the North Pole. What is your place to be alone to think, imagine, dream, plan?”

Other students wrote without a prompt from their own experiences or ideas.

Writers felt liberated that they could take time out of their busy weekday to express how they were feeling.

“We passionately believe when people write it enhances critical thinking,” said Hamilton.

Junior Alanna Cook, writing and linguistics major, enjoyed the event so much that she made two copies of her piece, one to hang up and one to keep for herself.

She wrote about “How beauty doesn’t mean as much as we think.”

“It feels good. At first it was just a writing assignment, but I enjoyed it,” said Cook.

The Pizza-for-Prose event seemed to be a great success.

Students responded well to being able to write down how they thought and felt about certain topics.