And yes to the exhaustion of having to deal with Argument Part Eleventy Billion and Bad Feminism. (I was scolded once for squeeing at length about Pacific Rim because, so I was told, there was only the one woman character and We Can Do Better!)
And sometime I want to do another post about teaching creative writing, because the other thing doesn't come across is issues of genre. I have had SO MANY creative writing teachers literally just shrug at me like, "I don't know how to help you because you write genre" and I'm like, "How does that change ANYTHING about the actual mechanics of writing? Do sentence structure and clarity of narrative MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR because a character is an alien, or there's different nomenclature, or a dragon?! Because I don't think so, and if you do, we need to talk about that!!"
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:04 pm (UTC)And yes to the exhaustion of having to deal with Argument Part Eleventy Billion and Bad Feminism. (I was scolded once for squeeing at length about Pacific Rim because, so I was told, there was only the one woman character and We Can Do Better!)
And sometime I want to do another post about teaching creative writing, because the other thing doesn't come across is issues of genre. I have had SO MANY creative writing teachers literally just shrug at me like, "I don't know how to help you because you write genre" and I'm like, "How does that change ANYTHING about the actual mechanics of writing? Do sentence structure and clarity of narrative MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR because a character is an alien, or there's different nomenclature, or a dragon?! Because I don't think so, and if you do, we need to talk about that!!"