Creative Writing- Monday- 3rd period

[justrealistic]

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.

Comments

Re: Listen to the lecture

[revengenotebook]

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

Re: Listen to the lecture

[intotheout]

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?

Re: Listen to the lecture

[revengenotebook]

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.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[intotheout]

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

Re: Listen to the lecture

[revengenotebook]

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.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[intotheout]

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?

Re: Listen to the lecture

[revengenotebook]

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

Re: Listen to the lecture

[intotheout]

Sticking to the high road. Good luck.