#21 Writer’s Workshops
January 23, 2008 by clander
It’s no secret. White people want to be writers. Why wouldn’t they? Work 10 hours a week from a country house in Maine or England. Get called a genius by other white people, and maybe get your book made into a film.
Every single white person harbors this dream. No matter what they tell you, all of them have at least one chapter of a novel stashed away somewhere.
Being a marginally crafty race, white people will often seek out every possible route to achieving this goal, and one of the most popular methods has been writers workshops.
These are expensive mini go-to-school type vacations. Where you talk with a published writer (often someone you haven’t heard of, but they have a book on Amazon) who will tell you how they became writers. If there is time, they will listen to you read your stuff and tell that you it’s good but it needs work on a) structure, b) characters, c) dialogue. Then they will collect their check and go back to their country house or studio apartment in New York.
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That’s how I was feeling during my creative writing class. We study “contemporary writers” (aka: guys who teach creative writing at a university and whore their books to other creative writing teachers who claim the book is “brilliant”) and have to buy their books, even though they’re probably going to go back to the school store or sold online after the course is over. They also shun writing “commercial” fiction (aka: stuff that makes money). No one ever mentions that Mark Twain and Charles Dickens wrote for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.
I’m cynical about writer’s workshops. I did go to a class once, and the teacher said she was six years into writing her novel. Six years!!! And she’s teaching the class… Six years!!! This better be some magnum opus work of art. Six years!!!
I’ll probably go to a workshop one day, but I’ll be cynical then too. If I read something and the teacher blasts me for structure, character, dialogue…I’ll probably tell her I thought her book sucks too.
Writer’s workshop? As a white person…I am intrigued! I may attend, write about it, turn it into a movie and then retire to Maine! SWPL is my new life planner!
Chas
http://StuffRichPeopleLove.com
HAHA I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and think it’s DEF just a funny!!
Is there a stuffjewishpeoplelike.com ??
Michael on August 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Sorry, that’s how I get through life. At work, in school and with other people. More of a Californian thing, if I wasn’t in the state of Cal. I wouldn’t be required to, then I’m one of those autistic nerds or something tries to get by in life. I’m a product of my own environment, middle-class people get down on their luck and have to face reality. I share this guy’s sarcastic sense of humor on how he perceives the world through a “white man’s” comical point of view. +
See autism boy, I can dig up alot more on your dumb ass if you continue with this race shit that you started.
Test me bitch.
YOINK!
i am a loser with too many names and too much time. i think the reason why i’m skrewd up is cuz my dad rapes me… Blak pwr
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on writer’s workshops.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
White people always think they have an interesting story to tell… so true
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