What the fuck, people?
Feb. 17th, 2009 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackshoegazerMy creative writing teacher is at a conference in New York and this week we are supposed to post our new stories on the class discussion board and everyone is supposed to read them and comment.
No one is commenting but me. It's like everyone forgot about the second part of the assignment. A bunch of people have posted their stories but no one is commenting. Except me. Rotten fuckers.
Plus, while some of the stories are pretty entertaining, like the unrequited love letter from a scientist working to terraform Mars, or the bleak paranoia of a The Roadish post-apocalyptic world, or the story of the breakup of an abusive relationship told by the Brain in relation to the other parts, like the Heart who only speaks in poetry and loves the abusive bastard. These have been good.
However, some of these are just terrible. The Twilight-wannabe vampire story. The lovely tale of the kid who loves the woods who grows up to marry his high-school sweetheart who later has a bunch of kids and owns a cabin and realizes how awesome it is when your dreams come true. Half of these stories have no conflict whatsoever. No challenges, nothing compelling or interesting and I'm supposed to find four to six nice things to say about them? ACK!
I feel so sorry for my teacher who has to read ALL of these ALL the time.
No one is commenting but me. It's like everyone forgot about the second part of the assignment. A bunch of people have posted their stories but no one is commenting. Except me. Rotten fuckers.
Plus, while some of the stories are pretty entertaining, like the unrequited love letter from a scientist working to terraform Mars, or the bleak paranoia of a The Roadish post-apocalyptic world, or the story of the breakup of an abusive relationship told by the Brain in relation to the other parts, like the Heart who only speaks in poetry and loves the abusive bastard. These have been good.
However, some of these are just terrible. The Twilight-wannabe vampire story. The lovely tale of the kid who loves the woods who grows up to marry his high-school sweetheart who later has a bunch of kids and owns a cabin and realizes how awesome it is when your dreams come true. Half of these stories have no conflict whatsoever. No challenges, nothing compelling or interesting and I'm supposed to find four to six nice things to say about them? ACK!
I feel so sorry for my teacher who has to read ALL of these ALL the time.
