/lit/ - Literature

>mandatory poetry writing course as part of my creative writing minor
>professor is a raging feminist
>calls one of my poems problematic because it features rape and doesn't make it the focus of the poem
>tells the class that she's grown tired of poems that obfuscate their meaning, and if she can't get something out of it on the first reading, she's 'out'
Anyone else got any stories about creative writing classes they hated?

>make some fuckin crazy-ass settings
>love the ideas behind them
>no way to execute them properly in novel form
I'm so fucking mad every day

>>6756480
>meanwhile Rush Limbaugh is making millions of dollars and sitting on his ass with it

People ITT who claim that life has no value or substance should stick to their beliefs by killing themselves. If life is so horrible and meaningless why don't you just end it and do everyone else a favor?

>>6344445
>>6344454
>nothing intrinsically valuable or interesting about the universe or anything in it

How do you place value on a feeling, or the beliefs of other people? Are you really this disconnected from the world?

>>6344507
But that's just your belief. That doesn't necessarily make it true.

>>6220763
>nominated him for my college's visiting writer's series
>actually gets majority vote but is ultimately vetoed by the professor because he is a man

>wake up
>breakfast, lunch, and dinner somewhere in there
>whole lotta internet
>a college class now and then
>whole lotta more internet
>sleep
This addiction has destroyed me.

>>6134385
>people who impose 21st century ideals on old text
Why?

>>5863120
Wait a second, are tripfags just people who suck at reddit so they come here where their shittiness is not tracked numerically?
>>5863121
>mfw this was his plan all along, to be written about

Did this really happen in Lolita?
>A good reader may very well finish “Lolita” and conclude that the book is about the systematic rape of a young girl, or that such a troubling text should require a trigger warning
Did she really get raped? I didn't think he actually had coitus with her. Wtf. Am I missing something?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/05/trigger-warnings-and-the-novelists-mind.html

>>4789569
>tfw my friend uses Calibiri

>stuck in a loveless gay relationship where neither of us talk to each other
I pretty much just want off the ride at this point.

>>4715951
>just want my work critiqued
>have to advertise it in the form of a sales pitch because nobody wants to fucking print good stories/literature
>can't git gud because nobody will tell me what's bad because they won't read past the fucking sales pitch
Our world is a bleak one.

>>4277433
>they kill it by sitting on the ground