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DeepGreen
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States175 Posts
February 11 2009 05:09 GMT
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...so I don't know if any of you are creative writing majors/grad students/interested in fiction/poetry etc. etc. Tonight I had my 130 page collection (half/collection) of fiction workshopped.

To describe what this feels like: think of the last time you asked another person out. There's a weird, three to four second terror (if you actually like the person, certainly), in which you're not in control of your mouth, you're outside your own skin, you really have very little control over the pace and choice of words. You work on instinct. It's fucking bizarre.

Now, stretch that feeling out to two and a half hours. For me, at least, that's what being workshopped feels like. No matter what people are saying. It was different when I was an undergrad, but at the grad school level, it's an entirely different game.

I'm wondering what terrifies everyone else? What kind of things give you stress stomachaches, keep you up most of the night? Or, if you're me, buy a half pint of Jamison, curl up on the couch with a book, and slowly get nice and drunk?



So I told him your car was like that when I got here and as for your grandmother she shouldnt have mouthed off like that
benjammin
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2728 Posts
February 11 2009 05:13 GMT
#2
workshops are what terrifies me

what school are you at? i'm still waiting to hear back from grad programs
wash uffitizi, drive me to firenze
DeepGreen
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States175 Posts
February 11 2009 05:27 GMT
#3
On February 11 2009 14:13 benjammin wrote:
workshops are what terrifies me

what school are you at? i'm still waiting to hear back from grad programs


Where'd you apply? That process was kinda unnerving too.
So I told him your car was like that when I got here and as for your grandmother she shouldnt have mouthed off like that
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
February 11 2009 05:42 GMT
#4
my workshop classes have been the funnest classes so far for undergrad.
twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
benjammin
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2728 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-11 05:53:55
February 11 2009 05:53 GMT
#5
On February 11 2009 14:27 DeepGreen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2009 14:13 benjammin wrote:
workshops are what terrifies me

what school are you at? i'm still waiting to hear back from grad programs


Where'd you apply? That process was kinda unnerving too.


about 20 different schools :O

my dream choices are iowa (of course), michigan and brown, but i'd be happy with any of the 20
wash uffitizi, drive me to firenze
DeepGreen
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States175 Posts
February 11 2009 12:51 GMT
#6
On February 11 2009 14:53 benjammin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2009 14:27 DeepGreen wrote:
On February 11 2009 14:13 benjammin wrote:
workshops are what terrifies me

what school are you at? i'm still waiting to hear back from grad programs


Where'd you apply? That process was kinda unnerving too.


about 20 different schools :O

my dream choices are iowa (of course), michigan and brown, but i'd be happy with any of the 20



Don't go to Iowa just because you get in. I know it's our Harvard, but the funding situation there leaves a lot to be desired.

Michigan is a great school, from everything I've ever.

I'd HATE to go to Brown. I have no problem with experimental writing at all, but they seem over the top to me. Good luck.
So I told him your car was like that when I got here and as for your grandmother she shouldnt have mouthed off like that
benjammin
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2728 Posts
February 11 2009 22:14 GMT
#7
yeah, i realize that the size of the program makes funding a little short, but i'm debt-free from undergrad so i think i'd be insane to turn it down if by some miracle i got in

agree on michigan

as a writer who leans towards experimentalism, that's why brown is so intriguing
wash uffitizi, drive me to firenze
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