Business class FAIL. Two people laughed, the rest needed an explanation.

[Gxas]

Always... This always happens to me... Its not fair!!! People never understand my references!!

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Oh yeah.

At the moment in university I'm doing Creative Writing, and one of my groups has a criminally small reference pool of materials, so whenever I reference anything from comic books, videogames, the entire sci-fi or fantasy genre, I'm going to get blank stares.

There are people who honestly think playing a few rounds of CoD and no other game (except maybe the Madden Sports games) makes them hardcore gamers.

Thankfully, my sci-fi literature class is a lot more nerdy, so whenever anyone makes a nerdy reference, everyone gets it, including the tutor.

How the fuck is creative writing even POSSIBLE without a large repository of reference material for inspiration, clever shout-outs, or just a good understanding of what's worked for other writers?

Sounds like a remarkably dumb group.

They are.

I have two classes, one of which have massive reference pools, and the other of which has the reference pool of the genre that they write in.

So if they write Danielle Steel-esque novels, they have only read Danielle Steel and Danielle STeel knock-offs, have only seen movies influenced by or based on Danielle Steel.

I am not joking. The only guy with a slightly wider reference pool is a guy who only reads obscure post-modernist literature. So he has a broad variety of post-modernism and modernism, but nothing else.