Now, I’m planning to complete my major in Creative writing, and maybe something on the side. So far, I’m really enjoying it. But I have to be honest, I have a serious problem with other Creative Writing Majors, and it’s all for one simple reason:
They will use the most ridiculous diction and syntax as well as metaphorical ideas just to sound as intelligent as possible.
I suppose we fancy ourselves better writers than everyone else, which results in a nasty superiority complex. But it drives me nuts. Something you can say so easily, but a CWM has to go and intellectualize it.
I see no reason why a “creative” piece of writing has to sound so “intelligent” for it to be good. Some of the best literature I’ve ever read has been down to earth style. Not everyone has to be Charles Dickens.
So if anyone else is considering it as a major, please, do everyone a favor, and deflate your ego before you write anything.
Even though the average person doesn’t even read, one would hope that if such a mediocre human life form would happen to fall across a book which may in some way assist their education, that they would be able to understand it.
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After I finish my manifesto on creating a better world by killing all the stupid people, and by finish, I mean realize that it’s hopeless and give up, I’ll probably be writing mostly papers for school.
In my free time I’d like to write a young adult novel.
And porn scripts on the side. Does the porn industry even need script writers?
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so what kind of things are you going to write?
Comment by mlah 07.28.07 @ 1:00 pm