#i've read poetry and fiction by mfas that are grasping so hard to make a Point that they just completely lack genuine and honest emotion | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

moregraceful · 4 months ago

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my hot take as a person with an english degree and a library degree is that some of the dorkiest fiction and poetry ever committed to paper in the english language came out of the iowa writer's workshop so it is at best goofy and at worst completely futile to argue that your average amazon unlimited writer is having a more deleterious effect on literacy and literature.

#like i know these guys and they are NOT better than booktokers bc they have an mfa in fiction or poetry #in fact. (further hot take) i'd argue many of them are orders of magnitude worse bc they take themselves and their ✨ craft ✨ so seriously #that their work is completely devoid of any authentic human emotion and is merely detached irony trying to mask as social commentary #but the booktok girlies know what they're doing. they're aware! and they're having a great time doing it! they're having fun!#and i have read unfortunately MANY works by mfas that are just like. where is the joy in this? the fear? the sorrow? the honesty???#like yeah booktok is not my thing and it can be pretty silly but most of them aware of the genre they're in and they're having a blast #i've read poetry and fiction by mfas that are grasping so hard to make a Point that they just completely lack genuine and honest emotion #and you can tell the writer just like. did not feel anything urgent or vital about the work they were creating #anyway. follow for more hot takes on the literary establishment #books books books #saying all that i know there is a whole ecosystem of amazon unlimited and booktok writers who are in it strictly for the money #and maybe feel nothing about what they're writing. but they ARE aware of the genre they're in #and to really make it work in amazon unlimited you DO have to have your finger on the pulse of craft wrt genre fiction #whereas i one time in college hateread all of a quote unquote literary writer's works and it was just like #oh you have NO idea that you're just writing complete nonsense #you think you're making a point and have social commentary and every single book is just. incredibly silly #and you would have had a much better and more interesting time if you allowed yourself to write romance novels instead!!

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