I'm so sorry you're having such a bum CRW class. I was lucky enough to never have a really bum teacher. I had one teacher who wasn't as good as the others, but she at least cared. The class had a lot of trouble during workshops and she had trouble leading workshops, so usually I'd start talking and ask a question about the piece to get the workshop rolling, but she thanked me for running the workshops and admitted that wasn't her strong suit.
Despite the fact that I didn't learn a lot from her, she really cared about the class and about making it as good of an experience as she could make it. (Plus I learned quite a bit from reading this one guy's work—Jeremiah Greaves. He's a little shy with his work and if he can get over that he's going to be insanely famous.)
You're not wasting your time if you're writing. Even if you're being told "how to write literary," you're learning something new. What you may be learning is "I don't want to write like this."
One of the things I learned from writing classes is that I hate writing assignments like "Where were you last night?" But I loved writing a 2-page sentence—part of the challenge of that was to come up with a scenario to write about that would fit the breathlessness of a 2-page sentence. (Also it was for nonfiction which was even harder.)
Good luck. And again, I'm sorry you've got such a bum teacher.
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Despite the fact that I didn't learn a lot from her, she really cared about the class and about making it as good of an experience as she could make it. (Plus I learned quite a bit from reading this one guy's work—Jeremiah Greaves. He's a little shy with his work and if he can get over that he's going to be insanely famous.)
You're not wasting your time if you're writing. Even if you're being told "how to write literary," you're learning something new. What you may be learning is "I don't want to write like this."
One of the things I learned from writing classes is that I hate writing assignments like "Where were you last night?" But I loved writing a 2-page sentence—part of the challenge of that was to come up with a scenario to write about that would fit the breathlessness of a 2-page sentence. (Also it was for nonfiction which was even harder.)
Good luck. And again, I'm sorry you've got such a bum teacher.