These prompts get worse and worse.

[seiberwing]

At some point in your school life you were asked to write an essay that made you angry or anxious. (You needed the grade? You hated the subject? You didn’t have time? You were in love?) As an exercise in showing yourself the difference between that school essay and creative nonfiction, write, in the first person, the story of writing it. See it as a chance to tell the (emotional, atmospheric, judgemental?) truths that had no place in the essay you were assigned.


There's no way you can get anything vaguely relating to interesting out of this; we're all going to come up with mostly the same thing anyway. Yeesh. And he wants me to make something up because I've never had an experience along these lines that I could make into a registered prose piece, which is idiotic considering this is the chapter on creative nonfiction, and several other girls in the class have talked to me on how stupid a lot of the prompts/intense study of examples in the book are. Blech.

In better news, 92 on my Chem exam! Woot!

Comments

[stace-s.livejournal.com]

Boring isn't necessarily bad, remember the old Chinese curse: "May you lead an interesting life" ;)

Hey, I got an idea! Why don't you write your paper about how writing the paper you have to write makes you uncomfortable! It'd be brilliant! XD For serious, you could make it work, since this prompt IS making you uncomfortable. Think about it.

[stace-s.livejournal.com]

And dude, Dracular was an awesome book! XD

[stace-s.livejournal.com]

Dracula was just okay though.... stupid no-edit button.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Really? See, I always sympathize with the monster.

*grin* And I also read this.

[dragoness-e.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Another fan of Fred Saberhagen's Dracula! The rest of the books in the series (he didn't stop with just the one) vary in quality.
Thorne is eh, Old Friend of the Family is entertaining if a bit pedestrian, and Dominion rocked--semi-Lovecraftian theme, and a really great punchline (paraphrased from memory):

Nimue has been hunting for Excalibur, and finally has Merlin under a compulsion spell so he has to tell her where he hid the sword:

Nimue: "Where is the sword? You must tell me!"
Merlin: "In the hands of the Prince of Wallachia. He's standing behind you."

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I read those two, although Thorne was confusing as hell. Haven't seen Dominion or any others.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I'm considering it, but I'm also weighing it against my teacher's sensitivity to anything he percieves as a threat. Maybe if I change it *just enough*...