argene

Went to the Intro to Fiction class today and my Postcolonial Lit class. Intro to Fiction is a bit of a dissapointment and the waitlist is too long for the Intro to Poetry workshop. I wanted to work on a longer, mystery piece and one girl is starting on writing a horror novel, but to both of our dismay, the instructor wants the class to focus on general lit and not "genre lit". I feel that is bullshit. Will it be the same in the workshop? I mean it seems detrimental since visibility for women authors needs to increase in the horror/sci-fi/mystery field. So why discourage that? Why do we all have to write the same thing? I have published in non-fiction and poetry (awards), but not in fiction, and I the reason I signed up for Intro to Fict is so I could actually have time in my schedule to work on my fiction writing. I am an English Literature-Creative Writing major (Poli-Sci minor), and all I feel now about this class is that least it satisfies a requirement in my major. I'm hoping UT-Austin and UMinn-Twin Cities doesn't fall into the same trap.