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Nowhere is this sentiment more obvious than in university creative writing programs, wherein most instructors will forbid students to write genre pieces. It's Literature or nothing.
I got the same attitude in an undergraduate creative writing course. I chose to write a historical piece. From the looks on some people's faces I might as well have dumped a pile of used kitty litter in the middle of the floor. The instructor was much nicer about it but even he said, "I don't like historicals. They're not litrachoor." And we were flat-out forbidden to write fanfic for the class (though I can understand that in a way if the instructor was not familiar with fanfic and had legal concerns).
The upshot was that I forced the whole class to drink pig swill read my historical and I still got an "A." Ha.
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Nowhere is this sentiment more obvious than in university creative writing programs, wherein most instructors will forbid students to write genre pieces. It's Literature or nothing.
I got the same attitude in an undergraduate creative writing course. I chose to write a historical piece. From the looks on some people's faces I might as well have dumped a pile of used kitty litter in the middle of the floor. The instructor was much nicer about it but even he said, "I don't like historicals. They're not litrachoor." And we were flat-out forbidden to write fanfic for the class (though I can understand that in a way if the instructor was not familiar with fanfic and had legal concerns).
The upshot was that I forced the whole class to
drink pig swillread my historical and I still got an "A." Ha.