A Creative Writing Drop-Out

 

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A simple pursuit of knowledge on the internet leads to a sordid moral free fall. Like Alice losing perspective as she tumbled into Wonderland, an innocent but ambitious writer finds her way into a writing class on e-mail only to discover that her imagination is being raped by her gangster professors and her fellow students. Steadily, as her awareness gives way to anger and her creativity turns to vengeance, she moves to impale her exploiters on their own electronic petards.
It is a master stroke that could only have been conceived and written by a woman clinging to a receding innocence as she aspires to power, driven to humiliate the solons who smugly think themselves to be her patrons.

-- Chammain el Fauk, staff writer People's Freedom

Imagine, a young woman whose seething ambition at least matches her literary talent. Yearning to signify she attacks the internet like a hissing she cat, seeking to gain the tricks of the trade being proferred by eminent and self advertised writing masters via e-mail. Quickly she learns that the respectable profs are ripping off their pupils, snatching plot lines and cribbing characters, while at the same time stiffening their flagging libidos through private correspondence.
They steal her work and think they can pay her off with virtual sex. She plots her revenge, luring them in, turning tables as she turns them into the characters of her own work, ensnaring them in a novel that Italo Calvino would have been happy to read, and perhaps to write.

-- Mihaela Manfuck, senior editor Women Now!

 

 

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