Rambling About Writing - That Weird American Who's Obsessed ...

I just finished reading a book.? Minding Ben by Victoria Brown.??

It's about a young woman, from Trinidad, who comes to NYC and gets a job working as a nanny for an absolutely awful family.??

I glanced at the acknowledgments at the end of the book; and Brown mentions...The Hunter College Fall 2009 Workshop Class, with Peter Carey at the helm.?

Like always I was delighted to see something Australian mentioned in a not-Australian book.??

I looked at the Hunter College's site about their creative writing program.??

It made me think of my creative writing classes in college.?? I don't think any of my professors had impressive publishing credits.??? Well, I mean impressive to me.?? And that would be getting a novel published, winning awards, getting on bestseller lists, etc.?

I would be mildly impressed with someone who had a few short stories published in literary magazines...magazines that are probably read only by other people who write stories for literary magazines.?

Or maybe I'm wrong.?? ARE there people who read these literary magazines just for fun?

I guess there might be? ? Some people like short stories.?? And maybe they like discovering new writers?

Plus.? What am I thinking? ? Is there anything wrong with writing for other writers?

No, of course not.

I'm being a snob.

And a hypocrite. ? I pretty much have NO publishing credits to my name.

Anyway.....

I was thinking what it might be like to have Peter Carey as a writing professor. ? It would be cool...in theory. ? But I imagine I'd be negative about it, since I'm not a fan of his books. ?? Every time he'd give me criticism on my writing, I'd probably think? Well, I don't like YOUR writing.? So there.?

Then again.?? What would be worse??? That would be....being critiqued by a writer whose work I love.?? Then I might go home and cry a bit.??

Maybe that's one of the reasons I'm disgusted with Stephen King for being nasty about Stephanie Meyers.?? What if she had once been a fan of his work???? How awful it would be for her to hear him say such rude things about her????

And what he said about her was definitely NOT constructive criticism.?? It was insulting nonconstructive criticism.?

Speaking of Meyers.?? I read her other book, this week.?? The Host.??? I thought it was fantastic.??? It's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but through the eyes of the actual snatchers.?? Or one snatcher actually.??

I just thought of something. ? When Stephen King insulted Stephanie Meyer, he not only insulted her, but people who like her books. ?? That includes me; and I used to be a huge fan of Stephen King's books. ?

I'm not anymore. ?

Well, I haven't stopped liking his books. ? But I don't like him anymore; and I don't plan on reading any of his other books. ??

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