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I'm always really disappointed when there's someone in a class who quite obviously does not want to be there. There's a boy in our genre class who does nothing but mock and sneer at everything. Whether it's other people's work or the genre itself. When we do our workshop sessions, he does no previous editing and doesn't even bother to read the stories beforehand. He actually said to a person during critique last week, "I dunno. Didn't read it." I wanted to bitchslap him. The most irritating part is that I know for a fact that we had a 20+ waitlist for the class. A waitlist full of people who really wanted to be there and who would read the stories and give critique and not mock everyone and everything.
Just, augh. The part I really don't get is why he's paying $250 for a class he's not interested in. I really hope the prof fails him. So far she hasn't called him on anything yet, which honestly surprises me.
On a similar subject, I finally finished my romance story. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. The required writing style is the complete opposite of my own. It was an excellent assignment, though. I had to really step out of my comfort zone (I need to do more of that). I've been working on the novel for so long that I'm gotten into a total stylistic rut. It was really great to be forced out of that.
Just, augh. The part I really don't get is why he's paying $250 for a class he's not interested in. I really hope the prof fails him. So far she hasn't called him on anything yet, which honestly surprises me.
On a similar subject, I finally finished my romance story. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. The required writing style is the complete opposite of my own. It was an excellent assignment, though. I had to really step out of my comfort zone (I need to do more of that). I've been working on the novel for so long that I'm gotten into a total stylistic rut. It was really great to be forced out of that.
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