Hello, Jeremy here. As of now I
am a senior and a triple major with creative writing, electronic media and
film, and communications. I have essentially completed all the programs except
the creative writing one, so for the next few semesters I am going to have
quite a time essentially having only writing classes. My other programs were a
lot of fun, but I am a little excited as well as nervous to get into this
major, I know there will be a lot of writing and reading, and am hoping for the
best.
As far as what I
want to do with the writing, I want to write screenplays (and hopefully direct
them). I'm hoping all my majors come in handy, but I'm willing to do a lot of
other things aside from just writing screenplays. I am relatively new to the
creative writing program, I have taken the intro class, playwriting, and early American
literature, so I've got a little ahead of me. So far my experience in the
creative writing program has been positive, although it hasn’t been as
intensive as it is about to be. I have a lot of stories to tell, and I want to
tell in different ways.
I am a movie
lover more than anything, so this may become an asset as well as a problem
throughout the creative writing program. I am not a fan of reading poetry and
prose style material, so, again, this may come to be an issue, of course I do
what needs to be done so hopefully it’ll be as painless as possible. I did enjoy playwriting, scriptwriting, so
entertainment mediums are my favorite things to work on. I admit I am not a
heavy reader, so I’m hoping to improve my reading skills to a degree. I was a
heavy reader a long time ago, so I feel like I could become one again.
I
personally define genre as a category defined by specific themes. I took a film
genre class, so my views on genre might be distorted as film and literary genre
to differ, but for the most part, genre is there to differentiate different art
works to allow us to concentrate on the ones that we would find most
entertaining.
Genres generally have ongoing themes. Science fiction
usually has some sort of social message imbedded within the story, and it
usually takes the world as we know it and warps it in a realistic fashion
(unlike fantasy which takes an unrealistic fashion). These themes are generally
ongoing, and carry throughout the story within the genre. They help us to
narrow down what we like, if you like suspense, read a mystery, if you like
romance, read a romance, the combinations are infinite.
In a
broader sense, genre is the overview, for example, fiction is something that
isn’t real, poetry I define, as writing with some specific pattern or prose, and
a biography is a story about a specific person that does or has existed.
No matter
what sort of genre I write in, I am a big fan of black humor and use it to
massive extent. I have written a play (for the play class) and it was a comedy
suspense, I have been writing a screenplay (forever), and it is a dramedy. No
matter what the overview is, I like humor as a subgenre. I don’t think I’ve
ever tried writing anything outside genre categories, but I am wiling to try.
Hopefully, everything will work for the best within this class.
Great.
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