Personal Essays and you

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

Now you've lost me...totally.  Like your over here and I'm WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY
over here >>>>>>>

[EUOL]

Sorry.  Obscure Adam Sandler movie reference.  I wonder if he's ever been mentioned in a thread relating to literary genres....

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

EUOL, I sent you a piece I wrote for my Mort Sci class. I had to write about myself, so I did. Not sure if it helps, but hey. There you go.

[EUOL]

Thanks, gemm. I'll have a look at it.

As for the students, I just ran across a good one!  Hurray!  The writer related his own tying of an M-80 to a dog's tail to random acts of violence perpetuated in warfare, and was very honest with his questions about himself.  Turned out very nicely.  So yes, some of them can do it.

[House of Mustard]

Tacking a sunday school moral onto the end of a story, just for the sake of it?  Sounds like Covenant!

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

I never got people who like sunday school morals.  Happy stuff is so depressing.  I think religon is to.  So are vegetables.  And gnomes...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

the problem with the "sunday school ending" is not that it's "happy." it's that it is trite, often forced, and not truly introspective.

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

Yes, I suppose.  But aren't forced endings fun to read?  Like when we friggin' peer edit and the ending of someones friggin' story is jammed into the margins with friggin' corrections.  I hate peer editing other people's crap.  It takes to long.

[Mistress of Darkness]

EUOL, that was very imformative. I will have to remember that when I go back to school.

It's too bad I can't take your class when I go back for my masters.