Adolescent Effusive

I'm listening to Destination Beautiful by Mae. It truly is beautiful.
Today, in creative writing, I realized what a true glutton for interesting syntax I am. I was reading Lee's peice, and I was underlining like every other word and puting hearts and NICE!'s all over the paper. I didnt give her any constructive criticism.
What made me laugh is that she said things like "mourning wind" and talked about skulls and whatnot, and I wrote on her paper, "Absolutely splendid. A little dark, but that's your style. It doesnt make me question your talent." And I wrote about scurrying flowers and sidewalks and spices, but the last line of mine was, "Place yourself in your cage. You won't be leaving soon." And she wrote, "Could be a little less bleak, but otherwise good." The whole peice was this absurd sety of directions that involved waterfalls and pleasant imagery, and I write one slightly ominous thing and she calls it bleak!
I love Lee, though, so it's okay. When I said, "What are you talking about, skull woman?!" She admitted that the ominous ending was the only part she remembers because she focuses on morbidity. Which makes me laugh, because she's such a nice girl.
Most of what the kids in my creative writing class write is really dark, lurid stuff. Either gory or really depressing. None of their characters are intrinsically happy and it's just plain annoying. Honestly, my stuff isnt like "Celebrate life, this is the only one we've got! Whoo hoo!" but I'm almost positive that everything I've written, aside from that one surreal peice Lee commented on, is, by the most basic definition, comedy. So many kids are writing tragedy, and I don't understand why you would create tragedy when you have a choice. You don't have a choice over what actually happens in your life, so why not make things as positive as possible in your imagination? I don't understand.
Also, too many girls write peices about a girl who hates their ex-boyfriend or hates their best friend. Way to be obviously autobiographical.

posted by M.Jazz @ 2:54 PM