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Stay Redirect. The methods of the workshop lead to "improvement" by subtraction -- since by definition the instructor can't compel the student to produce something that's not within his capability.
It's not a coincidence that minimalism became so popular in the seventies, or that Carver or the domestic confessionalists became such huge national influences in the eighties; this is the period when the workshop model was getting established. All workshop writing leads to a type of minimalism, even if not strictly in the stylistic sense.
For example, everything to do with politics or class must be expunged, since in the politically correct academy as on Oprah such subjects cannot be raised without the false consensus, the feel-good atmosphere, falling apart. What can we agree on, and therefore teach? That you--at twenty-one or twenty-nine--have had some personal experiences: your parents divorced or you had a bad time in high school or your sister had a terrible sickness.
You can make a story out of that--or creative nonfiction, that's okay too. As long as it conforms to the elements of "craft" you're being asked to upheld. We might make the case that creative writing is what composition ought to be, in allowing idiosyncratic expression. Creative writing also functions in opposition to the rhetorics of literary theory, where everything is politicized though in an insanely misguided manner, focused only on language and the author as independent idea and will do not exist.
The remarkable thing--but it shouldn't be so, in our age of conformity--is how malleable, how teachable, students tend to be. All their lives long they've learned to play by the rules of socialization, and creative writing workshop is just taking the social game to a different level, where your experience is validated but not really, because you must follow the model and you're given the appearance of having your hands held and being consoled even as your work is being ripped up, it's couched in the language of therapy.
It's perhaps also a refuge from self-help which is where memoir flourishes , as you're told that we're all here to help each other. No wonder creative writing is the most popular scene on campus.
Show don't tell, find your own voice, write what you know, sure, you can do that while carrying on a hectic social life and not even feel guilty you're wasting time. You just need to get the technique down a little better. Maybe in the next poem about your dog that got lost. This piece appears in the current issue of Boulevard magazine. Anis Shivani has just finished a novel, Karachi Raj.
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