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Creative Writing- Monday- 3rd period

If you signed up for a creative writing class and thought you'd be in the Danger Shop or something, Daria would wonder what kind of creative writing you thought you'd be doing.

Also, if she knew what the Danger Shop was yet she'd nope out of here so hard. There was still time to flee if she hadn't taught anything yet.

And that time ended... now.

"Welcome to Creative Writing," Daria began, sounding not at all excited, even if in her own little way she wasn't entirely hating it. Though she wasn't telling them her name, because then they'd know what to call her. "Maybe you're here because you like to write, or because you need the credit, or because you thought you were signing up for something else. That doesn't matter, as long as you turn in your writing every week, and do the best you think you can. Writing is subjective, and talent isn't necessarily as important as getting something out there.

"Since it's the first week and this is a school that throws picnics you welcome new people-" And if you thought she hadn't been wtf'ing over the phone this weekend about that, you would be mistaken. "-your prompt for this week is 'missed connections.' You can write a story about someone you saw and didn't get to talk to, or the type of person you wish was here but wasn't. Make it at least a page. If you need help or need more guidelines, you can see ask, but you have as much freedom as you want. You can spend the rest of class working on it, and it's due next week."

Also, what was with the weekly classes? This place.

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No introductions! Daria doesn't really care why you're here.

Gratuity Tucci

Summer Smith

Paris Geller

Hyacinthe

Jughead Jones

Ask questions if you need to!

Considering what the class description had been, Tip supposed she couldn't really be too surprised that the lecture itself was similarly sparse. She was rather hoping they'd get at least a little guidance in here somewhere, though.

Maybe next week?

Knowing that, normally, Summer wouldn't really care at all for a class like this, which she was probably only taking because it sounded so normal or whatever and definitely not because she had any interest in creative writing whatsoever, this Summer also didn't care, wishing she hadn't given Peridot her phone for more upgrades so she'd have something to fiddle with. Not that this Summer had anyone to text, but she would look very much like she did.

Maybe she could do a quick system update while the teacher talked, though.

Oh, get used to Paris asking questions.

"At least a page?" she demanded. "Did I accidentally step into a third grade classroom?"

Daria shrugged. "You have three classes a day. You might have," she said. Granted, she'd have loved this schedule when she was in high school. "You can do a lot with a page if you've got the right idea. If you want to write a novella, knock yourself out. I'd love to read it."

Paris was absolutely writing you a novella now. "So are we going with the traditional definition of between 17,500 and 39,999 words or are you going to be as laid back and laissez-faire as everyone else at this hippie school seems to be?"

Daria had literally never heard anyone say that about her before.

"Traditional. If it's 40,000, I'll ding you half a grade."

She wouldn't, but Daria thought it might make this kid feel better.

It totally made her feel better.

"Thank you," Paris said, nodding and writing it down in her notebook.

Tip knew she shouldn't be surprised by Paris "Harvard or death" Gellar asking to write a full on novella on week one. And yet. Part of her was almost tempted to try to compete with the other girl -- but Tip enjoyed having, you know, some semblance of a life, so that was probably not the best plan.

Besides, she'd already won a major, national award for her creative writing. At age 11. She had nothing to prove here.

So the note that a little robot insect delivered surreptitiously to Paris' desk didn't contain any challenges or bets. Just a simple: Show off. You know in fiction length isn't the same thing as quality, right?

Tip even made sure it followed basic grammar. Just for Paris.

I've slogged through the Russians. Believe me, I know, Paris said. One word for Kerouac, too: EDIT.

He couldn't write a woman to save his life, Tip agreed. But that's true of most of the 'classics'. What are you going to write about?

Pretty sure he never talked to a woman in his wife, either, Paris wrote back. I'm going to write about missed connections, of course. A novella about a girl and a boy from different places who keep just missing meeting each other--in the halls, in the common rooms, in classes. In the end they'll meet and realize they wouldn't have liked each other much anyway. No one will die, though--too Russian.

Very post-modern, Tip noted. Is it all coincidence, or is something keeping them from meeting?

I was thinking of it all being pointless but am afraid that's getting too far into the nihilistic drek that YA lit has been heading into.

Tip pressed her hand over her mouth to smother a laugh. Bet the teacher would like it though. Eternal battle: write what's popular or write what's good?

The trick is to make what's good popular, but I haven't figured that out just yet. I'll stick to being good.

Sticking to the high road. Good luck.

Hyacinthe had been here long enough that the lack of introductions was a surprise, but not enough to stop him from writing.

Also, had he ever mentioned how much better ball points were than quills? Of every miraculous invention he'd spoken of to Messire Delaunay and Phedre, the pen that required no separate pot of ink was the one they appreciate most.

Granted, he was writing his entirely in D'Angeline for the moment, just to get his thoughts out, but he'd remember to translate it into Cruithne. Probably.

Get your work done! Or pass notes, whatevs.

Tip twirled her pen between her fingers for a few moments, looking at her paper and thinking about "missed connections", then got down to work.

Hopefully the teacher wasn't going to have an issue with a little story about a young woman trying to reconnect with her mother and making friends with an invading space alien along the way, full of allegorical allusions to western colonialism and oppression of indigenous peoples.

What? Tip was feeling lazy this week. Filing off the serial numbers of your own lived experiences was a fine creative writing tradition.

As were the little doodled illustrations in the margins. It was hard to capture the true beauty of a Boov eating dental floss from the container like it was spaghetti without a visual.

Well, if it was due next week, Summer felt absolutely no compulsion to work on it now. It would be done in the wee hours of Sunday night before she went to bed, and not a moment sooner. Which gave her some time to finish her system update and then chew on the end of her pen a little before scribbling down the notes of what was truly going to be quite the epic manifesto on how there, like, totally wasn't enough cute new boys coming in at the start of the school year. Notes that mostly then turned into doodles of hearts that tested out how the initials of S.S. worked with the initials of the cute boys that were, like, so totally already there.

Paris began an extensive outline of her novella today, jotting down notes to herself about things she'll need to look up in the library later.

If you want to talk to her one on one.

You'll be able to do as much work as you want on these. You can write something up, or just handwave it in next week's class. All good!

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