Unconventional improvements to Writing

Sweet reminder that you're only "amazing" in comparison to the heap of trash she has to read every semester.

>>8482628
Probably this.
Been in the same situation a few times, might just be my inability to perceive praise as genuine, or that my half assed effort, was more than anyone else bothered to put in.

>>8482628
This. In my high school English classes I always got C's or low B's on all my papers. Then in college for all my classes that writing is involved the teacher can't seem to stop sucking my dick over my writing.

I honestly view my writing as unorganized without a unifying idea. It seems like I write whatever comes to mind and I find relevant. But for some reason I college the teacher's always give me A's when in high school the same paper would've gotten me a C.

It's really difficult to parse out legitimate and false praise in college for two reasons: professors are largely unwilling to openly criticize students, if not for the sake of their jobs then for the fact that students might leave and lose the entire department funding. Second, this is praise relative to the other work they recieve which is, by and large, extremely poor by virtue of laziness or unintelligence.

I had a creative writing course in which we had an end of course meeting with the professor to discuss our portfolios and revisions. I opened by asking mine for critique, and she said it was all really good. Of course its good compared to a bunch of edgy stories about sucicde, and others written from the point of view of a dog or something; that doesn't mean they stand well in a vaccum though.

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>>8482622
Unabomber's manifesto sparked my writing improvement. The way he wrote reminded me of the way the kids in my AP English classes had written. Back then, I could tell that their writing was nice, but I couldn't say why. I would look back and forth between my own terrible writing and their nice writing, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't even figure out one reason why mine was bad and theirs was good, so I gave up on my writing.

When I was reading the Unabomber's manifesto many years later, I noticed that for the first time I could see how the writing was working. With that newfound understanding, I would finally be able to improve my writing, but only if I put in the practice, so from that moment on I started writing and have never stopped.

>>8482822
>I noticed that for the first time I could see how the writing was working. With that newfound understanding, I would finally be able to improve my writing, but only if I put in the practice, so from that moment on I started writing and have never stopped.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "how the writing was working"? I've read the manifesto but I'm not sure what about it you're referring to.

Not an improvement, but an interesting experience
>be me in gard school
>not doing lit, but take a lit course because reasons
>spend weeks preparing an researching, writing early drafts
>discover fatal flaw in argument, scrap it, start over
>write a 20 page essay in less than 8 hours
>A-
This isn't a humble brag. Literature was one of my majors at my undergrad, and there I would have gotten a B- for that paper at the very best, more likely a C
Not all departments are created equal

>>8482889
Or as other anons have pointed out, after sifting through shit yours looks like gold.

>>8482897
Even the most vile of shits can be polished into gold. Just look at the ads for the Art Institute or Full Sail.

>>8483042
Supposedly "the law" is going to start cracking down on non-accredited schools like Phoenix, etc. I wonder how many tens of thousands of kids have been suckered in to ITT style schools over the past decade?

Read a lot, practice writing a lot, listen to a lot of advice and put all of it into practice just to try it out before you decide whether or not you're going to take it, if you respect someone's judgement then do what they tell you to do, write something as if it's just for yourself and then show it to others anyway, take influence from others and don't give up on a piece just because you feel like you should, keep going until you finish and then cast judgement afterwards.

>>8483078
Basically: Art Schools(140K for a degree as credible as one from Trump University)

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>>8482849
I'm not talking about any of the ideas in it, just how he was using writing to send his message. You know. Why start with this? Why this topic before that topic? Why these sentences? Why this length of paragraph? I was understanding how the writing was working to express his ideas and what those ideas were.

It's weird, but I couldn't look at writing that way back in high school. Looking at writing and trying to understand it enough to write something about it was like being in a place where there is nothing. No walls. No floor. No sky. There is only the white color of the paper and the crushing knowledge that everyone can see something there that you can't.

Anyway, pic related was a prompt that I can't forget, because it absolutely destroyed me.