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Tuesday, March 9, 2004
Rants of a Discouraged Writer: Read on at Your Own Risk
It's bad enough that my writing gets laughed at in my creative writing class. But now it's getting laughed at in my TV/Film class as well.
Our 9 weeks project was to write a 10-15 page screenplay, and at the end of the assignment, our teacher would hand them out to the class (anounymusly) and the class would write critiques on it. Well, of course, the one person I never wanted to see my writing again gets ahold of it. And of course, she doesn't feel content with simply writing a critique. She has to royally mock it in front of the whole class. Royal mocking is just like regular mocking, only much louder and twice as malicious. And to hear people telling everyone around them that your writing is so awful it's funny? That really stings.
I don't know why I'm letting it get to me so much. After all, this girl is famous for her extremely harsh edits. But this happens with practically every piece I write, and not just with her, either. It's with most of my class. The whole thing just makes me never want to write a piece of short fiction again. I know I'm being overly dramatic... but I used to be so proud of my work. I wish I could still say that.
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*Rant mode turned off*
On a happier note, THAT is up to 30 members! Members: Dark Phoenix, Red Tigress, and I have a little surprise for you in the near future!
And know what? I don't care what people say about my writing. She wouldn't have been so adamant that it was awful if she could write herself. Her piece was inane, ininspired, and offensive, with stereotypical characters, and her dialogue was very contrived.
Now that I got that off my chest, have a great day!
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