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Creative writing woes.
Sep. 26th, 2006 10:04 amI've been noticing that almost every prose piece in our creative writing book has the same characteristics of the others.
a) It's depresssing and usually reminiscent. There is a definite lack of comedy or blatent happiness in most of them.
b) They involve either sex, death, being somehow abused by the world, or a combination of the three. And most of the parts with sex are gratuitious or just plain annoying.
Plus that my Creative Writing teacher gave me his very first crit on a short story I showed to him ("The reporter would have asked if he could quote her") and when I said, "Well, the reporter wasn't actually planning to put her in the paper, he just wanted her to shut up", he rather angrily said, "Well, I didn't know that!". I mean, it's okay if he don't see what I meant or just interpreted it differently, but he doesn't have to be so defensive about it. I'm leaving the story as it is on account of everyone else who read it seemed to get it.
*goes back to studying Latin* Magister stulta sententia hababe et Seiberwing iram est.
EDIT: This is the most awesome thing ever: Monty Python and Star Trek.
a) It's depresssing and usually reminiscent. There is a definite lack of comedy or blatent happiness in most of them.
b) They involve either sex, death, being somehow abused by the world, or a combination of the three. And most of the parts with sex are gratuitious or just plain annoying.
Plus that my Creative Writing teacher gave me his very first crit on a short story I showed to him ("The reporter would have asked if he could quote her") and when I said, "Well, the reporter wasn't actually planning to put her in the paper, he just wanted her to shut up", he rather angrily said, "Well, I didn't know that!". I mean, it's okay if he don't see what I meant or just interpreted it differently, but he doesn't have to be so defensive about it. I'm leaving the story as it is on account of everyone else who read it seemed to get it.
*goes back to studying Latin* Magister stulta sententia hababe et Seiberwing iram est.
EDIT: This is the most awesome thing ever: Monty Python and Star Trek.
