Comments on: #21 Writer’s Workshops

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:27:59 +0000

I love you so much.. I will never take anything I do seriously again! That is a great weight off this white girls shoulders… (p.s. #132 should be feeling superior when one of the items on the list doesn’t pertain to them…)

By: Milly

Milly — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:19:15 +0000

Agreed. Writing workshops can be fun (or they can be bloodbaths. It depends on what arsehole is in the class).

Better movies would be nice.

By: Beano

Beano — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:19:49 +0000

I literally never get sick of this web site!

Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com

By: Anais

Anais — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:45:56 +0000

I’m pretty sure there would be a lot of cross over, but you lose a whole demographic of women.

By: smokeyhighland

smokeyhighland — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:12:28 +0000

Would you consider a feature on Stuff White Gay Guys Like? (I’m serious). They have a flair for fashion.

By: Domestic African

Domestic African — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:33:19 +0000

Oh! I understand, You don’t trust writers workshops but you pay for them. Sensible. sensible.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:54:13 +0000

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.

By: Shannon Cason

Shannon Cason — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:42:33 +0000

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.

By: Shannon Cason

Shannon Cason — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:29:38 +0000

LOL. Writing about writing. Has to be boring to write and even more boring to read.

By: Chas Underwood III

Chas Underwood III — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:20:48 +0000

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