The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage
Hey, y'all, (my name is Reba and I have a right to say y'all)
I know you are having a bunch of fun. I am still at school and have a week and a half left! I will announce that I will be getting home next Tuesday. For now, I'm just reading Social Psychology like a mad woman, writing plays, critiquing other crappy amature plays and trying to be nice yet firm, writing abstracts, writing a paper on Feed and Speak, and reading Harriet the Spy for class. whoa.
But I'm with Laura, you all should post more. I need distraction time to interupt my studying and mad scrambling around. You have lessened my procrastinating time on the internet by 5-25 minutes by not posting stuff for me to read and comment on. Shame on you.
Let's see, what can I talk about...oh, I am super excited because my friend and I have started two new online lit magazines for Knox writers. Currently, there are only two publications for writers and they accept nothing but realistic fiction. And the Creative Writing Department (most of them) look down on SciFi and Fantasy. They refuse to even read it. So (with the help of a few others and the HEAD of the Creative Writing Department and a couple other writing Professors) Emma and I are starting a SciFi/Fantasy online magazine and a Children's Literature magazine for people to write for. It's super exciting! English majors are so fucking pretentious sometimes. There are a lot of writers who completely snub SciFi/Fantasy here. Some of the faculty will just throw away your story if it is SciFi Fantasy if you turn it in for a workshop class. Luckily, the head of the dept. and a couple other writing teachers are being swayed. Basically, we are trying to say that SciFi and other genres are still good literature too. And as long as they are good stories and well written, why should it matter where the stories are set or what species the characters are? you know?
Ehn, well, I have to go study. But you people should post! and i'll see you in about a week. Love to you.
posted by Psyche1231 @ 12:33 PM
4 Comments:
that's crazy. all literature is fantasy. fantasy fantasy is just more obvious about it. go reba. you stand up for, you know, things.
ps, can you get texts? cause i realized maybe you couldn't after it was too late.
when you say "next tuesday" you mean the 23rd or the 30th? please specify so i don't have to be confused.
how dare they not appreciate sci fi and fantasy?? those jerks. honestly. are they trying to say that ray bradbury, j.r.r. tolkein, kurt vonnegut, etc. aren't great writers???? losers.
no, i can get texts. and i will call you shortly, jack.
i will be getting back on the 30th. yay!
yeah, see, the english department thinks of bradbury and vonnegut as "literature" not "scifi". and jrr tolkein is just the exception of fantasy literature rather than the rule. if they actually do respect LOTR
but the head of the department guy, he STUDIED under Kurt Vonnegut getting his masters. isn't that fucking amazing?!!! he actually said that some of the things in Vonnegut's books that he recognized from Vonnegut's real life that happened when THEY WOULD GO EAT TOGETHER. amazing.
of course, i ate with MT Anderson, sooo....
just shove this quote in their faces:
"everything we think is fantasy. everything we make is science. the whole world is made up of only science fiction."- ray bradbury
i'm so shocked i'm scared. this is how book burning starts. people don't think things are respectable. aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh! (yea for over-reacting)
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