I have a friend who didn't take any creative writing classes during college because she'd heard too many horror stories of friends who'd been dissuaded from writing anything with fantastic elements. I thought, what a missed opportunity! But then, perhaps she was right about what she might have experienced. I was discouraged from writing anything "in genre" during college, but only because the prof thought students should learn basic elements of writing before playing inside of a more narrow rules set. Now I wonder, with genre boundaries busting open so wide, if you're right, and that they're *less* constraining than supposedly non-genre fiction.
I also tend to agree on the topic of fun, but some dour folks would claim that if you're having fun then you aren't really getting it. Pooh pooh on them!
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Date: 2009-09-29 11:18 pm (UTC)I also tend to agree on the topic of fun, but some dour folks would claim that if you're having fun then you aren't really getting it. Pooh pooh on them!