/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8568423]

>creative writing assignment
>peer review during class
>professor specifically tells everyone to not just talk about spelling/grammar errors
>classmates proceed to talk only about spelling/grammar errors while saying "yeah, it was good" to everyone

[Anonymous No.8568431]

Why the fuck would you take a creative writing class? That's like taking a "Eat Eachother's Shit" class. You're signing up to eat shit and force people to eat yours.

[Anonymous No.8568445]

>>8568423
>turn in writing assignment to professor
>these are their critiques

[Anonymous No.8568452]

>>8568445
>didn't manage to get a Hahaha

must have been shit

[Anonymous No.8568472]

>>8568431
I'd eat some qt's shit

[Anonymous No.8568520]

>>8568423
>expecting people in a creative writing class to know enough about writing to critique
>having spelling/grammar errors in your work
Anon...

Creative Writing class is just a /r/writingprompts training camp, so I don't know what you expected.

[Anonymous No.8568841]

>>8568431
>>8568520

This isn't a creative writing class specifically. It's a "add an extra chapter or retell a scene in a different time period" assignment in a literature class.

But even for academic essays, peer review is the exact same experience.

>having spelling/grammar errors in your work

A part of having rough drafts that get peer reviewed is to weed these out. It's just that nobody is ever willing to discuss any other elements of what makes something good or bad.

[Anonymous No.8568888]

>Giving out creative writing assignments
>Specifically say, "Ok, I don't want you guys to write stories about a college student wandering around a campus, or characters who are obviously you, doing what you do all day. Have a character, that's very different from you, have a story that's different than your life."
>Assignments turned in: 80% stories about college students wandering around campus.
>B-but...professor, I know you said not to, but this is more than that, the character is like contemplating deep things while wandering around the campus. It's all done in metaphor, or simile...or something.
>Ok faggot, what deep things are they contemplating, and tell us exactly how your metaphors show that.
>Uh...
>No, seriously, lead the whole class through it, explain to us.
>You....you're just all morons!!! You don't understand my genius!!!

[slow reader No.8570831]

>>8568431
Depending on where you are, it may be a requirement.

I live in California, and I had to take the equivalent to a creative writing class last semester.