Writing class blues and · 5:54am Dec 10th, 2017
I took a creative writing class this semester, I found it really disappointing. I was hoping to meet other writers in the class but only 4 out of the 19 people there were actually writers, everyone else (for lack of a better term) were normies.
90% of the work were personal stores, which is fine occasionally but if that all you write, that makes me think you're not creative enough to write something that's not about yourself. People in this freaking class did not know how to format their stories half the time, and it pissed me off!
My teacher gave me shit for talking too much during the workshops. I responded only me and 4 other people talked most of the time, so If I didn't talk there'd be long stretches of awkward silence. I actually got some good advice and critiques from the class
He also told me "to write in this world" and giving me a lower grade for trying to be creative, in a goddamn creative writing class.
For the final assignment of the class we were supposed to form teams (there were 5 teams of 3-5) and we were supposed to have one piece from each member and at least 4 pieces from 4 other students and make a booklet out of them. I submitted 1 poem and 2 short stories, one I worked really hard on and went into caffeine shock to finish in time.
The only book that had a piece of mine was the one made by my team.
I'm still kinda sad about it and was hoping you guys would be willing to read it, maybe critique it. Please I worked really hard on it and I don't want all that to go to waste.
Warning though, it's a little weird.
