passive voice rawksemosnailApril 22 2003, 22:41:52 UTC
Yea her edits are basically really bogus. Have you seen her recommendations to the interrogation story yet? I think they're the most irrational of all. I am going to lead the passive voice and awkward construction revolution!!
I swear I think so many aspiring writers and such completely lose track of the purpose of writing, buried under these rules. And I mean it has happened before; for over a hundred years plays and stories strictly followed the wisdom that they should have no set place and time, such that we end up with stories with the disconcertion of places being referred to as G---a and dates of 18--.. which I found really irritating. I mean as if Jane Eyre wasn't ALREADY painful enough you know?
But yea.. this teacher's strange and very strict interpretation of the edicts of style she's been taught really lose sight of the big picture. Just one example of the many many; she seems convinced that a story must start with some kind of "hook" immediately.. immediate action. I think that (A) someone's patience can definitely be expected to last a paragraph or two without some quote or drama; and (B) the having the first line as a quote is SO cliche. Frankly I'm not amused at all by it and do find it slightly tedious to wait a few paragraphs before I have any idea whats going on. Arrgh I hate people. I despise the stories my classmates write.. I despise most "aspiring writers" blargh. And other "artists" I think I said it before, one becomes a writer not because one decides to be one, but because one has something to say, and can say it such that people want to listen. People mostly write CRAP that follows the crappy rules perfectly but is totally uninspiring.
Re: passive voice rawkszszeldaszApril 24 2003, 05:54:58 UTC
Nuuu I didn't see those...bwaha I must...
YAH PASSIVE VOICE! ::holds up protest signs::
heh thankfully I haven't had to read Jane Eyre, but I do get the point...and it's sad -_-; Writing is supposed to encorporate some originality or something...I dono...maybe writing is turning into math classes >.> well, not turning into...it's been trying to be there for a while.
ARGH not the QUOTE THING.... that can be all right sometimes but....rarr... a description of the scene or whatnot can be JUST as gripping anyhow :P
mmm classmates::CHOMPDEVOUR::
Yes, being a writer shouldn't be about TRYING to Be a Writer -_-; That just...defeats the purpose :P
Bah, who needs the rules. Emily Dickenson wrote with random punctuation so we can the breakage of rules too~
Well..not much left for you to hate...seeing as I just ate them...which, is actually a lot like hate just without the h so maybe you were able to eat some too and be pleased?
Re: passive voice rawksemosnailApril 25 2003, 14:10:48 UTC
Not only does my current exploit, "The Story of Boot," have within it all these strikes at conventional writing preconceptions, and start with the beautiful sentence "Upon once a time," but it occured to me that the entire thing defies the definition of "short story," which the teacher has alleged be definition described "a single event or epiphany."
And while this story WILL be short.. hopefully (= ..it will describe an extended adventure of Boot and his cohorts. I just hope I don't end up totally overshooting the 15 page range we've been instructed to be wary of. But in general I'm already evilticulating like an evil overlord brooding over his emminant glory. muahahahahahaha
I swear I think so many aspiring writers and such completely lose track of the purpose of writing, buried under these rules. And I mean it has happened before; for over a hundred years plays and stories strictly followed the wisdom that they should have no set place and time, such that we end up with stories with the disconcertion of places being referred to as G---a and dates of 18--.. which I found really irritating. I mean as if Jane Eyre wasn't ALREADY painful enough you know?
But yea.. this teacher's strange and very strict interpretation of the edicts of style she's been taught really lose sight of the big picture. Just one example of the many many; she seems convinced that a story must start with some kind of "hook" immediately.. immediate action. I think that (A) someone's patience can definitely be expected to last a paragraph or two without some quote or drama; and (B) the having the first line as a quote is SO cliche. Frankly I'm not amused at all by it and do find it slightly tedious to wait a few paragraphs before I have any idea whats going on. Arrgh I hate people. I despise the stories my classmates write.. I despise most "aspiring writers" blargh. And other "artists" I think I said it before, one becomes a writer not because one decides to be one, but because one has something to say, and can say it such that people want to listen. People mostly write CRAP that follows the crappy rules perfectly but is totally uninspiring.
In summary, I hate people
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YAH PASSIVE VOICE! ::holds up protest signs::
heh thankfully I haven't had to read Jane Eyre, but I do get the point...and it's sad -_-; Writing is supposed to encorporate some originality or something...I dono...maybe writing is turning into math classes >.> well, not turning into...it's been trying to be there for a while.
ARGH not the QUOTE THING.... that can be all right sometimes but....rarr... a description of the scene or whatnot can be JUST as gripping anyhow :P
mmm classmates::CHOMPDEVOUR::
Yes, being a writer shouldn't be about TRYING to Be a Writer -_-; That just...defeats the purpose :P
Bah, who needs the rules. Emily Dickenson wrote with random punctuation so we can the breakage of rules too~
Well..not much left for you to hate...seeing as I just ate them...which, is actually a lot like hate just without the h so maybe you were able to eat some too and be pleased?
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And while this story WILL be short.. hopefully (= ..it will describe an extended adventure of Boot and his cohorts. I just hope I don't end up totally overshooting the 15 page range we've been instructed to be wary of. But in general I'm already evilticulating like an evil overlord brooding over his emminant glory. muahahahahahaha
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