I'm sorry, but I just have to rant because the crud in Introduction to Creative Writing is full of absolutes that just don't hold up.
"Avoid not just spoken cliches but also action cliches, called emotional shorthand: raised eyebrows, grimaces, smiles, winks, pounding fists. Those are all shortcuts, cartoon gestures for real emotions, and the sign of lazy writing. [...] Write what you truly see there."
Okay, I'm sorry, but f*ck you, you normal pieces of sh*t. I HAVE AUTISM, AND I AM AN OTAKU. IDK WTF PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO. I picture my stories as ANIME, so of course I'm going to use anime conventions!!! I can't picture real people and their weird little body language, man!!!
And I am very careful about my f*cking diction; even "cliches" like "smile" are used very carefully!!! I am relaying exactly what is happening in my vision, and you know what that means? THAT SOMETIMES, YOU HAVE TO USE "SMILE."
(And I also have never seen pounding fists, nor are grimaces or winks often used. And guess what? THINGS CHANGE! What might be a cliche now won't be in a few decades if people are avoiding it!!)
Or how about this? Basically 'You should have differences between what people say and what people are intending to say, or thinking.' YOU'H STUPID! (Yes, I wrote that on the chapter :3 ) YOU ARE ASSUMING THAT YOU ARE IN A RELATIVELY HIGH-CONTEXT CULTURE. THAT MEANS YOU ARE EXCLUDING ASD PEOPLE. AGAIN. F*CK YOU.
:3 (I'm somewhat joking about the whole excluding-ASD-people, but really, it is assuming that the characters (and writers) are not autistic, so it is a legitimate point, just very exaggerated.)
(And that's only my response to one page of a book. ... :3 )
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Non-FictionFor organization purposes and because there are waaay too many rants on my message board.... (cough) I'll try to... transport them here... at... at some point.... I guess this is non-fiction??? Does this even have an audience? No, I don't believe it...
