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chieriiSo, I am sitting in a campus I have never been to before, waiting for the release party of the Inkling, the college system literary magazine, to start.
Why am I waiting? Because I'm one of the authors published in it! :D
And how I got in is worth telling, because I never would have expected it.
I've taken two creative writing classes in this college system with the same teacher. As you may or may not know, creative writing instructors inherently dislike sci-fi and fantasy because amateur writers tend to hide behind the ideas to mask bad writing.
And, with two different stories, I got my instructor to say or write, "I don't like fantasy, but..."
Okay. So he has faith in me as a writer, enough to allow fantasy submissions from me. Shouldn't come as a surprise that my sci-fantasy piece would be considered, right?
He wasn't on the selection panel this year.
My story was read and approved by a panel of people who had never seen my writing before.
And it was a sci-fantasy piece. Approved by creative writing instructors that were complete strangers.
I can't wait for the release party to start. I still can't believe I got in. I don't think I'll completely believe it until I have the magazine in my hands with my printed story right in front of me.
Damn, but that sounds cliche, doesn't it? :P
Why am I waiting? Because I'm one of the authors published in it! :D
And how I got in is worth telling, because I never would have expected it.
I've taken two creative writing classes in this college system with the same teacher. As you may or may not know, creative writing instructors inherently dislike sci-fi and fantasy because amateur writers tend to hide behind the ideas to mask bad writing.
And, with two different stories, I got my instructor to say or write, "I don't like fantasy, but..."
Okay. So he has faith in me as a writer, enough to allow fantasy submissions from me. Shouldn't come as a surprise that my sci-fantasy piece would be considered, right?
He wasn't on the selection panel this year.
My story was read and approved by a panel of people who had never seen my writing before.
And it was a sci-fantasy piece. Approved by creative writing instructors that were complete strangers.
I can't wait for the release party to start. I still can't believe I got in. I don't think I'll completely believe it until I have the magazine in my hands with my printed story right in front of me.
Damn, but that sounds cliche, doesn't it? :P
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Date: 2010-04-26 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-26 07:27 pm (UTC)creative writing instructors inherently dislike sci-fi and fantasy because amateur writers tend to hide behind the ideas to mask bad writing
Oh, is that why? I always thought it was just literary snobbery, but that does make sense.
(Also, your lit mag's editorial board is all professors? I thought they were usually student-run. Mine was, anyway.)
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