The pressure to reinvent every kind of wheel is so real! I think it also is exacerbated by (at least in my experience) an allergy to the whiff of formula in plot/structure/tropes in many MFAs
The pressure to reinvent every kind of wheel is so real! I think it also is exacerbated by (at least in my experience) an allergy to the whiff of formula in plot/structure/tropes in many MFAs
I think you're absolutely right that many CW students are worried that plot/structure "formulas" are hacky... while also not knowing how to use them anyway. It's a good thing to disabuse them of!
The pressure to reinvent every kind of wheel is so real! I think it also is exacerbated by (at least in my experience) an allergy to the whiff of formula in plot/structure/tropes in many MFAs
I think you're absolutely right that many CW students are worried that plot/structure "formulas" are hacky... while also not knowing how to use them anyway. It's a good thing to disabuse them of!