He wrote a rape story, and not even a good one
Last year I was in an advanced creative course and the first day of class we all talked about our creative processes. One guy told us that he liked to write his stories at the bar, and he looked kinda nerdy, so I thought, 'oh, so he writes his Dragonball Z fan fiction while sitting by himself at Good Time Charley's. Good for him.'
That same guy volunteered to have his first paper peer edited that next week and wow, I couldn't have been wronger.
He wrote a rape story, and not even a good one. People got raped and they cried and there wasn't even much of a plot between all the pointless swearing, the Capitalization for No reason and, you know, the rape.
I got competitive and thought 'well, heck, I could write a better rape story than this guy. I'm new to the rape genre, but at least I'd use symbolism and motifs and I'd try to tell a touching story ... about... rape...?'
Yeah, that never happened.
(work.)
Anybody else take a creative writing course and get a classmate like this? And are there any other Creative Writing Classmates you think are recurring?
I'll start:
There's almost always the sorority girl who blatantly adapts her stories from her own life. Every story had a protagonist who looked and acted just like her and, coincidentally, every story was really bland.
That same guy volunteered to have his first paper peer edited that next week and wow, I couldn't have been wronger.
He wrote a rape story, and not even a good one. People got raped and they cried and there wasn't even much of a plot between all the pointless swearing, the Capitalization for No reason and, you know, the rape.
I got competitive and thought 'well, heck, I could write a better rape story than this guy. I'm new to the rape genre, but at least I'd use symbolism and motifs and I'd try to tell a touching story ... about... rape...?'
Yeah, that never happened.
(work.)
Anybody else take a creative writing course and get a classmate like this? And are there any other Creative Writing Classmates you think are recurring?
I'll start:
There's almost always the sorority girl who blatantly adapts her stories from her own life. Every story had a protagonist who looked and acted just like her and, coincidentally, every story was really bland.
Labels: awful people, writing
posted by Henry at 7:20 AM
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Sorority Girl's counterpart is Fraternity Guy, who always manages to use the F-word and include drug use in his stories. Whatever you do, though, don't get Fraternity Guy in a class where you have to write poetry. You might die.
And by the way, rape story guy IS recurring, or at least you and Amanda had the same classmate. Creeps (people who write rape stories, not you and Amanda (though you're both pretty creepy)).
Next to Fraternity Guy is Emo Boy, who decides to tell the class when he is orgasming. He barely even masks it in tale-form.
I don't care if you escape your pain by touching yourself. Seriously.
(not a joke - English 223, Winter '04)
And who could forget the facilitator of all creative writing class roles? The Polite Teacher.
The Polite Teacher loves all forms of creative expression, so no matter how awful a piece of poetry or prose is, he'll praise it. The "I Love Burritos" poem by Fraternity Guy as well as every bit of "No Daddy, no!" dialogue in Rape Guy's rape stories is beautiful because it came from the heart, or so he assumes because everybody who reaches the page requirements gets an A anyway.
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