• magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    27 days ago

    well that’s just the risk you take if you decide to teach creative writing

    Absolutely true. Creative writing attracts creative people. Expect the unexpected.

    Still, it’s funny that this is about a little kid.

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      I got in deep shit because of a stupid “creative writing” project where the inciting incident was prewritten and you had to finish it. It was something like “you threw a rock and accidentally hit a car and dented it, and you felt terrible so…” , obviously bait for apologizing.

      Fuck that. In mine the character refused to admit wrong-doing, went insane and was institutionalized and eventually lobotomized (a la jack Nicholson).

      DEEP shit.

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      when i was in middle school we got an assignment in my English class (second language), something like “write about a day that isn’t yours”, it was supposed to be short, maybe half a page, a little story about your brother’s day, or maybe a day how you imagined your favourite actor to live. the teacher was cool and english was just starting to click for me, so i felt– the urge… i handed in 6 pages of a handwritten post-apocalyptic short story, detailing hour by hour the last day of someone living alone in a bunker and losing sanity as they begin to hear knocking at the door

      thankfully i didn’t get penalised for being 5,5 pages over the limit :D