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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1237099" data-attributes="member: 7464">I can't disagree... All the workshops I've taken have been divided between discussing our stories and discussing the assigned readings. I always feel that the teachers are assigning readings they like as an example of the kind of work to which they expect you to aspire. I had one professor who only assigned readings out of HIS volume of Vietnam war stories. Of course, nobody in the class was in Nam so I'm not sure what he expected of us. I had one professor outright forbid all "genre" writing. He divided fiction writing into Literary Writing and Genre Writing. I'm still not quite sure what he meant by that - he didn't explain it very well. Could be something here... I think a gear moved in my brain... Just gotta figure out which gear and which way it moved... How about a stressed-out student getting ready to graduate, with a 2 year old son and a pregnant wife, renting a house from his father who makes ten times as much as he does but is still bugging him about the rent, with a new job where he's trying to make a good impression in a passionless corporate environment while his neglected, huge back yard withers from neglect and simultaniously trying to DM a D&D campaign while playing in 2 others? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Heavens forbid! (see above paragraph) edit: fixed a spelling error quite inappropriate for an English major. All other spelling errors, if present, are deliberately included as an artistic statement.</blockquote>

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