this is the problem with the workshop fiction story. it's not the formulaic paint by numbers quality, it's the limitation on what the story should do. Even updike occasionally just tells a funny story. granted he usually saves that for his metafiction, but still he breaks the mold from time to time. hemingway, by contrast, was rarely poignant in this oxygen network/tv sitcom kind of way, and the reason is that he didn't want you to be sympathetic to his characters. He just expected to be able to paint them well and accepted that a certain amount of empathy would go with that.
There's nothing lamer than bloggers who complain about "workshop fiction." When will they recognize YOUR frabjous brilliancy? Maybe after you stop pretending to be a writer and actually write something that people give a shit about.
Tell me, do you wear an English riding cap? And a blazer? You're a cliche. You're every wannabe writer who thinks he fucking knows something because he's read Ulysses. You are nothing special.
Oh, and Updike and Carver aren't modernists, dipshit.
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Tell me, do you wear an English riding cap? And a blazer? You're a cliche. You're every wannabe writer who thinks he fucking knows something because he's read Ulysses. You are nothing special.
Oh, and Updike and Carver aren't modernists, dipshit.
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