Grad School

[shoelace009]

I haven't posted in a while. My postings have been really sporadic over this last year. First I was busy with finishing up my senior year of college and now I am busy with graduate school and my thesis; however, I just got internet at my apartment and I think it's time to really start taking my creative writing as seriously as my academic writing

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[darkspirited1]

Haha at the magic 8 ball line. I can't believe she really said that about rain. That is just so ... ugh.

I'm glad you brought up the moral thing. I've been thinking about trying to write some children's books, and as I was coming up with ideas I started wondering if it had to have morals because I hate it when books come out and tell you "And so she learned never to eat poison apples again" or whatever, you know? I feel like children are smarter than that. I don't mind hidden ones I guess. I dunno. I was starting to wonder if I had to have morals at all. I just want them to stay fun and be entertaining.

What's your opinion on this?

[shoelace009]

It was really awkward. The grad student next to me about choked when she heard it.

I like books that aren't black and white. I think if you're writing about an important plot, it will have inherent meaning. If your story is significant, you don't need to try and make it significant by dressing it up in a moral.

I don't think there needs to be a hidden moral either. I mean there can be and there are some good texts that have these. But personally as a reader I prefer books that supply a question and the conditions for evaluating it. There can be a wrong answer but there isn't necessarily a right answer. I think the Hunger Games has this. It's morally ambiguous yet it is still significant. That's what I really like about it. The writing isn't the best but it means something.

[shoelace009]

Yeah. I don't think there is anything creative in a cliche approach since cliches are symptomatic of a lack of creativity.