Why take a writing class, part II.

Some points on that last post and over at the LJ:

1) genre snobbery: which I feel is silly and pointless

2) one 'right' way of writing: see above

3) time spent workshopping versus 'in a class', critiquing work by peers vs by published authors, free writing, genre/form-specificness of a class: things to muse upon

Because for all that there isn't really one right way of going about teaching a class, because people are not robots (last time I checked) and even the same people will want something different from a class depending on where they're at with their own writing (or possibly lack thereof), and I don't think anyone really emphasises this enough, but teaching creative writing is a creative activity in itself. If you're using some of the same building blocks each time you do it, you're still adding on new ones each time, still coming up with something different by the end of it.

All that being said, I get a lie-in tomorrow rather than getting up to teach, and I am grateful for it. :)