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icarusSo, I can't switch classes, it's too late in the year. The textbook of my creative writing class is great.
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theemdash's excellent advice and get in touch my old creative writing professor, so what advice he has for me. Beg him to let me go to his class instead even if it's in a different school.
As for today... I sat down to write a story for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sga_flashfic, and the experience was a little like being a surfboard, riding a wave, and then having someone (sounding suspiciously like my current Creative Teacher) yell, "Hey! You're at a 30-degree angle!"
*wipes out*
It's all the analysis, analysis, and analysis we're doing in class. In this textbook we're following (it's edited from transcripts of an actual class that my creative writing teacher attended) the teacher makes the entire class a creative process. But what we do is read the textbook and study it, analyze the stories we wrote, analyze the textbook and all the creativity they're doing in there, process, process --- AAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH.
I want to be in the textbook teacher's class. Not the one I'm in. The one where he's inspiring and challenging, and has us tell stories verbally, then has us visualize the moments in our stories.
But I'm not in that class. I'm in the class where we watch what a great class did from the sidelines. And talk about it.
It's the dead discussion that killing my writing.
*flips a coin*
Shall I call in sick?
I'll limp along somehow. I'll follow
theemdash's excellent advice and get in touch my old creative writing professor, so what advice he has for me. Beg him to let me go to his class instead even if it's in a different school.As for today... I sat down to write a story for
sga_flashfic, and the experience was a little like being a surfboard, riding a wave, and then having someone (sounding suspiciously like my current Creative Teacher) yell, "Hey! You're at a 30-degree angle!" *wipes out*
It's all the analysis, analysis, and analysis we're doing in class. In this textbook we're following (it's edited from transcripts of an actual class that my creative writing teacher attended) the teacher makes the entire class a creative process. But what we do is read the textbook and study it, analyze the stories we wrote, analyze the textbook and all the creativity they're doing in there, process, process --- AAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH.
I want to be in the textbook teacher's class. Not the one I'm in. The one where he's inspiring and challenging, and has us tell stories verbally, then has us visualize the moments in our stories.
But I'm not in that class. I'm in the class where we watch what a great class did from the sidelines. And talk about it.
It's the dead discussion that killing my writing.
*flips a coin*
Shall I call in sick?
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Date: 2006-10-11 09:39 am (UTC)I get the impression that the main problem is his uncertainty and inexperience. Based on the textbook he chose he wants to break out of the mold but he's not sure of himself.
Actually, I think I've mishandled him. I think we'll get more and more creativity from him if I'm gentler, more encouraging.
It helps that he's adorable. Sparkly green eyes. If you're going to have a frustrating teacher, at least he's eye candy.
Icarus