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unlearning eurocentrism and white supremacy by deliberately flouting the norms and “conventional wisdom” of writing advice
not one response to the OP has called out any kind of sociopolitical aspect to writing; instead there’s a lot of hypercorrection like “show, don’t tell” and “don’t use is/was” and “don’t overexplain”
none of that will CREATE emotional impact and resonance without a framework
none of that will CREATE emotional impact and resonance without a framework
here’s a course I just published that establishes a writing framework that DOESN’T rely on parroting eurocentric writing advice (much of which, I must remind people, stems from CIA anti-communist efforts of building “american literature”): s.qiouyi.lu/courses/subjec…
are we at a point where I can now talk publicly about how harmful an experience clarion west was to me, or will I get canceled again? :)
one obstacle to critiquing clarion west is the sheer ostracization that happens if you publicly say something negative about the program, as I have personally experienced
the individuals involved in clarion west are perfectly fine people, but as a program, it’s really just an expensive way to haze yourself into a professional network
