What's the patrician way to approach a creative writing

>>8930748
When you write godawful trash, don't ask anyone to spend any more time on it than absolutely necessary. If people give you notes, accept them humbly instead of trying to defend your "vision."

The absolute worst thing about creative writing courses are the people who will tell you that you "didn't get what they were trying to do" when everyone is already being nice enough to not call it trash outright.

All that said, the true patrician move is to not tear down your classmates even when they have it coming.

>>8930748
Don't try to be too deep. I did one as an elective in my BSc and got a High Distinction for it.

Lots of people will want to write about Tumblrisms and BLM type shit, or tell a whole story when the criteria asks for a "flash fiction", or a rant when asked for a poem.

Understand narration styles and stick to one. Nothing worse than a story that goes from first person to third person present to past tense and then back again. Plus tricks like the unreliable narrator, dramatic irony, and so on.

Never use a thesaurus. If you're not familiar enough with a word that it's in your vocabulary already, don't use it. People can tell.

Prepare yourself to read some of the worst shit you've ever read in your life and then couch your critique of it in niceties and positive rephrasings.

>>8930748

Just have fun and volunteer to read your shit often. Don't be mean to people and don't be arrogant.

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>>8930843
Solid advice, thanks boys

>>8930748
>patrician
>creative writing course

Literally no great author in the history of literature has taken a creative writing course. Prove me wrong.

>>8932112
Flannery O'Connor, Iowa Writer's Workshop

>>8932471
Only wrote corncobby Papist short stories (short stories being the Diet Coke of literature) and Wise Blood was godawful. Who else ya got