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<blockquote data-quote="toberane" data-source="post: 223430" data-attributes="member: 4968"><p>My degree is in creative writing, and I found out quickly what most of the professors involved in Creative Writing programs think of genre material. I tried to write a fantasy short story, and like many modern fantasies, I used a more modern voice for the characters. </p><p></p><p>The closest that my instructor had apparently come to reading fantasy was perhaps Le Morte D'Arthur or maybe The Hobbit. But he was appalled that I would use modern voiced characters against a medieval fantasy background. Never mind that it is currently a common convention to use modern slang in fantasy and that you rarely read anything anymore that uses that archaic language my professor was expecting. I rewrote it just for him, using archaic language and weakening the story in the attempt to translate it, and he thought the second version was much better.</p><p></p><p>My point is that, in these writing programs, they set up a certain number of expectations. They look down upon anything that falls outside these expectations, because they are not familiar with it. However, in these programs, I also learned proper grammar, ways of harnessing my creativity, ways to create sentences and paragraphs that have more impact, ways of getting a reader's attention from the start, and so on, and so on. I feel like I was able to apply much of the knowledge and skill that I acquired in the creative writing program to the genre material that I enjoy writing.</p><p></p><p>If there needs to be proof of this, my final project for the degree program was an 82-page cyberpunk novella. And, regardless of the bias against Sci-Fi and Fantasy in the English Dept., I must have done a pretty good job. I got an "A".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toberane, post: 223430, member: 4968"] My degree is in creative writing, and I found out quickly what most of the professors involved in Creative Writing programs think of genre material. I tried to write a fantasy short story, and like many modern fantasies, I used a more modern voice for the characters. The closest that my instructor had apparently come to reading fantasy was perhaps Le Morte D'Arthur or maybe The Hobbit. But he was appalled that I would use modern voiced characters against a medieval fantasy background. Never mind that it is currently a common convention to use modern slang in fantasy and that you rarely read anything anymore that uses that archaic language my professor was expecting. I rewrote it just for him, using archaic language and weakening the story in the attempt to translate it, and he thought the second version was much better. My point is that, in these writing programs, they set up a certain number of expectations. They look down upon anything that falls outside these expectations, because they are not familiar with it. However, in these programs, I also learned proper grammar, ways of harnessing my creativity, ways to create sentences and paragraphs that have more impact, ways of getting a reader's attention from the start, and so on, and so on. I feel like I was able to apply much of the knowledge and skill that I acquired in the creative writing program to the genre material that I enjoy writing. If there needs to be proof of this, my final project for the degree program was an 82-page cyberpunk novella. And, regardless of the bias against Sci-Fi and Fantasy in the English Dept., I must have done a pretty good job. I got an "A". [/QUOTE]
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