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<blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 222844" data-attributes="member: 150"><p><strong>Re: Re: Creative Writing Programs and genre/game writing</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For me it was a switch to what someone else has already named, very aptly, bad sex and bad relatives. And from there I found my own way to work within literary fiction -- the types of characters I wanted to write about, etc. My thesis collection is all about characters that would be considered losers by most people -- my stories just try to explore their lives, their little victories and losses, etc. But it's about the losers. </p><p></p><p>But I don't think that this is the wrong approach to take, either -- the problem with trying to teach the craft of writing to people who are trying to write genre fiction is that student genre writers tend to not see past the plot to the craft of the writing. </p><p></p><p>A musician who needs to work on a particular point of tecnhique would practice with an etude tha focused on that one skill. A soccer player who needs to work on his headers would just practice headers. But students of writing who need to work on craft resist the notion that they should work in forms that tend to strip away everything but the craft. </p><p></p><p>It is true that the vast majority of ANYTHING out there that is being published is crap. Even the stuff that tends to be more "literary" in style. And that's true of science fiction and fantasy. And there are certainly science fiction and fantasy writers whose work has true literary merit. But because those books are more challenging for readers than most of the pablum that's out there, the literary-quality writers are not as widely read. They aren't even as widely published, because the formulaic stuff sells better. But they're out there. </p><p></p><p>-rg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Radiating Gnome, post: 222844, member: 150"] [b]Re: Re: Creative Writing Programs and genre/game writing[/b] For me it was a switch to what someone else has already named, very aptly, bad sex and bad relatives. And from there I found my own way to work within literary fiction -- the types of characters I wanted to write about, etc. My thesis collection is all about characters that would be considered losers by most people -- my stories just try to explore their lives, their little victories and losses, etc. But it's about the losers. But I don't think that this is the wrong approach to take, either -- the problem with trying to teach the craft of writing to people who are trying to write genre fiction is that student genre writers tend to not see past the plot to the craft of the writing. A musician who needs to work on a particular point of tecnhique would practice with an etude tha focused on that one skill. A soccer player who needs to work on his headers would just practice headers. But students of writing who need to work on craft resist the notion that they should work in forms that tend to strip away everything but the craft. It is true that the vast majority of ANYTHING out there that is being published is crap. Even the stuff that tends to be more "literary" in style. And that's true of science fiction and fantasy. And there are certainly science fiction and fantasy writers whose work has true literary merit. But because those books are more challenging for readers than most of the pablum that's out there, the literary-quality writers are not as widely read. They aren't even as widely published, because the formulaic stuff sells better. But they're out there. -rg [/QUOTE]
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