#MA Creative Writing

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

@spnfanficpond @fanficocean

So for over a month and a half I’ve been told in my Creative writing MA class that my writing is too poetic and abstract to work in the form of a novel and that I need to simplify my meanings and sentences. I did as I was told and lost all interest in writing if I have to write in the same style that every other novelist does. Today I received this note from a classmate and didn’t realise how much I needed to hear it. Don’t change your art just because other people don’t get it. Don’t change your style to fit in with everyone else. It’s your story not theirs.

[doraminatook]

You don't know true happiness until you wake up to several AO3 notifications because someone stayed up late into the night reading your fic and commenting on nearly every chapter.

Is this what it feels like to "make it"?

Also here's the series ---> Shameless

[yuwuta]

something i think is absolutely bonkers is when fans of an anime/manga start publicly saying fuck you to the mangaka—who is still a very real person—just because the villainous character, who is not real at all, they wanted to fuck died

[matthew-pasquarello]

Moby Dick, From The Dock

a couple of essays

[kaze-writes]

Had a bad day, cried a little, made some chickpea curry, realised I have no more chocolate and got very upset about it, wrote the first chapter of Icarus... a regular Sunday in Kaze City, I guess.

[zreamy]

I GOT ACCEPTED FOR MY MASTERS PROGRAM 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[astrarche-x]

it's still day 1 of the @radiantemperorweek in my timezone, so enjoy this short fic for the "devotion" prompt!

also let this be my humble contribution to the concept of Ma's (technically Zhu's) gay harem :)

[anghraine]

me looking at other graduate programs while my current uni finalizes my current PhD: not that I would actually go back to school except possibly MANY YEARS from this hellscape ... I'm just looking ... maybe already having a PhD with a good graduate GPA would help with an application ... theoretically ... but getting a graduate degree in creative writing after getting a PhD in English while exclusively writing lowbrowish genre fiction would be completely impractical ... damn that's a cool class list, though ... oh hey, they do a lot with something I actually know a lot about, cool - but no you are done with grad school and you were so exhausted with years of being a student just a few months ago -

[allycat75]

You know what most Christmas movies don't have?

$250 million worth of useless explosions that only serve to make my Prime membership fee go up and a leading man who wants to fuck a life sized Wonder Woman action figure.

Warms the heart, doesn't it? Like egg nog that was left out way too long. 🤢🤮

[fleshadept]

might go to graduate school just for funsies.

[hexjulia]

ugh reading a book of poetry based on really liking a single poem and then the rest is just sort of mid navelgazing with extra space is really depressing for some reason

[ladylokianna]

Writing in my thirties is quite different than in my twenties. I have improved my english, i have improved a lot of things, but you can be sure as hell that one thing would never, ever change: ...the damn daydreaming who leads me towards horizons that are far an utterly beyond the starting point and that makes me woke up suddenly with at least 20 google tab open on my pc, three different work sheet with three different drafts (each one disconnected from one another), my pinterest board full of Ewan, Keanu or Tom Hiddleston pics (with a separate daydreaming about them) only to end asking myself: what i was doing? how on earth i'm ended up like this?

[carnivalls]

"cannibalism is so mainstream now" yeah well that sure didn't help me when i told an offline coursemate that i was thinking about exploring it for my dissertation

[attor]

just discovered katie mitchells theatre work and im losing my mind. time to move to london i guess

[thecryptidenthusiast]

MY DIPLOMA CAME INNN

[sashiavi]

head full, completely clogged. kaveh and [name] making out with alhaithams cock between their lips.