[ SECRET POST #2307 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2307 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Adventures in the Writer's Workshop + Question

[(Anonymous)]

Well, they sound like dicks. The Hispanic mathematician line confirms it.

I recommend the book Toxic Feedback by Joni Cole. It's all about how to give better feedback, and how to identify and ignore the bullshit.

In a college creative writing class I had a girl say that she didn't like how the main character was "WHOA, SUDDENLY GAY!" at the end, and maybe it was a poorly-written story (I had written it the night before and done hardly any revising, but this was one of those classes people took because they thought it would be an easy A and if you knew how to write at all the teacher acted like you were a genius), but uh, that was the point of the story.

Re: Adventures in the Writer's Workshop + Question

[lynx]

The director of the workshop suggested I used a German/Jewish name for the fictional mathematician tangentially mentioned in the story, and I told him no, there are already too many caucasians in Sci-fi, I wanted an Hispanic mathematician to appear in the story. So he said "well, if you want to be ~that edgy~ and push the envelop that much, make him a Mapuche or something" and everyone laughed and I was like "O_O".

Thanks for the rec! I'll check if it's available near me <3

I don't think a surprise ending equals a poorly-written story, fwiw. Even more when that's the point. It happened to me a couple of weeks ago too.

Re: Adventures in the Writer's Workshop + Question

[(Anonymous)]

Heh. The story was about a woman coming to terms with her daughter being gay, and it was the first time they had spoken in years. I was trying to illustrate that they were dancing around the issue and being awkward. So yeah, her complaint bugged me.

And uhhhh. WOW. I hope you keep writing everything your way just to show those assholes.

Re: Adventures in the Writer's Workshop + Question

[(Anonymous)]

lol, tell them about the Ramanujan Prize in Mathematics. Half of the winners are from Mexican, Argentine, Brazilian. If the time frame is okay for your purposes, you could even make your character a recipient.

Re: Adventures in the Writer's Workshop + Question

[ketita]

lol, "pushing the envelope". It's like they're unaware that there are universities in other countries, and that they teach mathematics.

While I agree that wanting and having a Hispanic mathematician is totally legit, I am always depressed at the lack of Orthodox Jewish representation in any and all media :<

/tangentially related