What is this yahoo reading?!

[lucidscreamer]

Over at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, the SBs are discussing a "creative writing textbook" (The College Handbook of Creative Writing) that makes me glad I could never fit that creative writing class into my schedule in college. Here's the excerpt that made me roll my eyes so hard they almost flew out of my skull:

"Entertainment literature does not

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[dknightshade]

*head desk* That just. Gah!! True that some 'entertainment' books succeed without good characters because they have an interesting enough plot to draw people in (personally, I think Dan Brown books fall into this pot but YMMV). But all writers should be aspiring to good characters and good plots and good writing not just 'well, I'm writing an entertainment book so I'll just use the card board cut outs.' That blows my mind that someone would put that in a TEXTBOOK!

[lucidscreamer]

That blows my mind that someone would put that in a TEXTBOOK!

I know! If the class was "how to be a BAD writer" it might be understandable. Otherwise, not so much. >.<

It's like the author was writing a how-to manual for aspiring bad!fic "authoresses".

[dknightshade]

Ahhh, but authoresses never write bad characters. It's us readers who just don't understand the nuances of their characters. ;-)

[lucidscreamer]

Silly me! How could I forget that?! ^_~

[dknightshade]

*laughs*

Yes!!!111!!!111!!!1 U just not smrt enough to c them.

[lucidscreamer]

OMG, my charas r purfekt! u r h8tr if u dun c that!!1one

;D

[lucidscreamer]

OMG, my charas r purfekt! u r h8tr if u dun c that!!1one

;D