cimorene

cara_chapel and i are agreed (two out of two fandom queens, biatch) that name-dropping is tacky in a creative writing course even for the instructor.

'because blah blah hemingway this and anna karenina that and a very good friend of mine who wrote this long novel and i'm sure i've mentioned virginia woolf's genius with the...'

a CERTAIN amount of recommending of reading may be done by the professor.

and not by anyone else.

name-dropping is an ugly, ugly thing, folks, and especially frog boy with the oily hair whose protagonist is named 'gooey.' don't name-drop at me. especially don't FUCKING namedrop sf writers. 'gibson' my ass. reading the ouvre of related work to my story is my choice or my responsibility.

if i haven't read gibson, which i haven't, yet, the comparison does no good; if i have, i've gotten what i will get from it.

and thank god i have friends who love me too much to allow me to write cyberpunk.