The Establishment

[kkglinka]

*looks around for a minute* Ah, the Oscars. I don't pay attention to them. Know why? Because my other major in college was creative writing and there was something I picked up very very quickly: the enormous, unjustified, bias against anything that smacks of dreaded 'genre'. As if intellectual navel gazing isn't a genre. If a decent reader can

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[xenokattz]

I always wanted to look those haughty professors with their bigoted values and say, ever so sweetly, "Why thank you. I learned the importance of logical cause and effect in regard to rational motives, and that characterization rather than plot is the backbone of good fiction, from romance novels. Suck it."
-- Here. Have the internet, my babies, Brangelina's frillions AND cake.

[kkglinka]

Word. The entire department was geared toward the assumption that anyone studying creative writing wanted to get published through the traditional industry. Er, no. Some of us just wanted to brush up on our technical skills and are only interested in telling a story, without editorial ghost-writing.