Just Rambling

[Biggalute]

A little drunk and melancholy. The only stories i've ever written are the ones i'ce poste on lit. Definitely think my flow and style have improved with practice.
Just started a creative writing course, loving it but each time we get an assignment i want to write about my extreme lit characters. bored with the mainstream.
Rambling over, any comments

 

[Voboy]

a friendly haiku...

Advice? Difficult.
Incoherence abounding.
Posting drunk? Unwise.

 

[lovecraft68]

Step aside, I speak-and type-drunk.

OP is saying he liked to write, wants to get better, took a writing course, but all he wants to do is write porn...which I'm sure his classmates may not mind, but it would be frowned upon by his teacher.

 

[Lifestyle66]

A little drunk and melancholy. The only stories i've ever written are the ones i'ce poste on lit. Definitely think my flow and style have improved with practice.
Just started a creative writing course, loving it but each time we get an assignment i want to write about my extreme lit characters. bored with the mainstream.
Rambling over, any comments

That's why I won't bother to take a writing course: They'll expect me to write something they like, instead of helping me write what I want to write better.

 

[windar]

Step aside, I speak-and type-drunk.

OP is saying he liked to write, wants to get better, took a writing course, but all he wants to do is write porn...which I'm sure his classmates may not mind, but it would be frowned upon by his teacher.

Depends on the teacher

https://www.classcentral.com/course...s-write-erotica-for-pleasure-and-profit-34624

 

[TadOverdon]

I suppose that's a story premise. The student submits a creative writing assignment but confuses it with some erotic writing they're doing on the Internet. Sexy teacher reads story and wants to review it with student.

Hilarity backed by a mediocre improv jazz ensemble ensues.

 

[NotWise]

I suppose that's a story premise. The student submits a creative writing assignment but confuses it with some erotic writing they're doing on the Internet. Sexy teacher reads story and wants to review it with student.

Hilarity backed by a mediocre improv jazz ensemble ensues.

I had a real experience not far from that. Given a creative writing assignment in English 102, I wanted to write something that followed a pattern very much like a very rhythmic speech I'd heard a couple months earlier that borrowed from the style of African American sermons.

Ideas weren't coming. I struggled with it until the wee hours of the morning before it was due. I was exhausted then had an epiphany and wrote it out in an hour our so. It was a series of barely connected scenes that had little more in common than the rather sultry rhythm that tied it all together.

The (sexy) teacher loved it and read it aloud to the class. She described it as expressing a desire for anonymous sex, which was news to me.

There wasn't a lot of hilarity, but there were some deeply significant looks from a young woman across the room.

 

[PennameWombat]

That's why I won't bother to take a writing course: They'll expect me to write something they like, instead of helping me write what I want to write better.

In a speculative fiction writing course - which I took because I write there and want to do so more adeptly - I did let slip about writing erotica.

The reactions (even from a co-attendee, a young female who implied she had a sideline as a sex worker of some undefined sort) weren't enthusiastic . The woman leading the workshop (published SF&F author), also wasn't overly impressed.

But per another comment, I did sign up for a local workshop focused on including sex (soft- and hardish-core) through the local writer's association (well, was to be over Zoom, due to, some sort of pandemic or something?) But the instructor was apparently injured in some sort of accident a few days before it was to start and it was cancelled, not yet been rescheduled.

I'm more attuned to avoiding courses or workshops that aren't "genre", since I've been in more than one group that recoiled when I mentioned "Science Fiction." I see no reason to avoid ALL courses, I'm just careful about what I share. But I did get a great response when I pulled a thousand words from a story posted here, that had nothing explicit in the extract.

 

[KeithD]

My erotic writing came lots of years after the last writing class I took, so no problem with that here.