Cover of Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye

Cover of Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
one of the best books I've read

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Workshopping.

This pisses me off a lot. Personally i rather die than go to class half the time now, i used to enjoy it but not anymore. Creative Writing is art they say. Well, i personally believe that art can not be taught and can't be criticized because no one but the artist can understand it, and therefore it shouldn't be shaped by the people only the artist. If it is about personal expression then that means that only you truly understand it as the artist. The only reason why people critique is because they do not understand and wish to change it so it can be understood which means then the whole point of the peice could be lost. Some things are better left untouched. Ok like my video i made, i am not sad or anything bad like that, i am the happiest ive ever been and i plan to keep it that way and so does he. There were rough times yes but since we made it through a month and a half without seeing eachother then i think we can make it though anything. Another thing the whole writing in class thing doesn't work for me, even with the music change its just not a good place to write and being forced to write is another pet peeve, thats why i stopped art classes in high school when i could because art can not be forced, or structured and i was sick of people telling me how to draw and paint and be creative. so i said fuck it ill do my own art, and i still paint and sketch today without stress and without prompt. ok well that is enough ranting for now i guess. But yea workshopping is bull.

2 comments:

Mellyssa Turner said...

So true. Being creative is about expression, not about making someone happy. You're right, being forced to wrote is not art, it's school.

Katrina Rupracht said...

lol I agree with you. The whole point is to be creative and express outselves. Art can be anything and why do we have to write for an audiance. When most the time we are writing for ourselves on feelings we have about something.