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synapticjava) wrote2006-03-27 07:58 pm
synapticjava) wrote2006-03-27 07:58 pm
Sadness
Just wanted to express my sadness and dissapointment over my creative writing class. It looks like it's going to be positively horrid. The professor is a heterosexist arrogant prick. He spent most of the class talking about what it means to be a "writer" like him. First of all, this is my opinion, but I don't think anyone can call themself a writer. There can be people who write; who write passionately and full-time and make their income from that, but I don't even then they can call themselves a writer. Like me for instance: I write, a lot, in fact, and it's my passion, it's what I love to do. I've been pretty successful at it too, fanfiction aside. I've had four different pieces professionally published. But I still don't think of myself as a writer. I'm just a guy that writes. Anyway, that aside, he was just very insistant on how exactly one is a writer. And that dissapoints me.
As for the class, we can chose to emphasize either poetry or short stories, and whichever we put our emphasis on will be how we're graded. We are not allowed to write any of the following: no characters are allowed to be between the ages of 13 and 30; we cannot write horror, science fiction, mystery, or supernatural fiction of any type; we may not write characters based on personal experience.
Now, I get that Creative Writing is more or less being able to write about something within a set of rules or prompts. Someone told me once that creativity is being able to use what you're given and only what you're given to the best of your ability. So, I can understand all of this. But my question is this: what if these things that he doesn't allow is what and how I, as a person who writes, want to write and what I am good at writing? What if this is what piques my interest and is what I am passionate about?
I can't drop the class, so I'm stuck with it. Maybe it'll get better, and I'm going to try and keep my chin up about it, but I do have to say I'm saddened and dissapointed by both the professor's attitude as well as how he conducts his class.
As for the class, we can chose to emphasize either poetry or short stories, and whichever we put our emphasis on will be how we're graded. We are not allowed to write any of the following: no characters are allowed to be between the ages of 13 and 30; we cannot write horror, science fiction, mystery, or supernatural fiction of any type; we may not write characters based on personal experience.
Now, I get that Creative Writing is more or less being able to write about something within a set of rules or prompts. Someone told me once that creativity is being able to use what you're given and only what you're given to the best of your ability. So, I can understand all of this. But my question is this: what if these things that he doesn't allow is what and how I, as a person who writes, want to write and what I am good at writing? What if this is what piques my interest and is what I am passionate about?
I can't drop the class, so I'm stuck with it. Maybe it'll get better, and I'm going to try and keep my chin up about it, but I do have to say I'm saddened and dissapointed by both the professor's attitude as well as how he conducts his class.
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Ugh. What a creep.
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And, well classes are generally about doing things you wouldn't do normally. It might be that he's intimitated by the styles he's banning.
Course this is just my 2cents worth
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That's ridiculous.
a) how con you possibly write based on anything other than experience? and
b) how will he know if you have or not?
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