I would just like to say, that if I had a cock, this is where I would tell The Writers' Guild to suck it.


I started a student group at my campus last semester, and it hasn't turned out, at all, the way I had hoped. The inspiration for the organization came from a really awesome creative writing class I took a year ago. The whole class, it seemed like we all had this collective energy and interest in helping each other to create better work. It was invigorating. And I wanted to share that energy with more students from my university.


But apparently most members suck.


I live basically an hour away from school (counting traffic, because you have to out here). And I'm taking 17.5 credits. And I'm trying to graduate (so that means not screwing up this term). So I don't have the time, or the energy, to start the smaller writing groups to meet face-to-face on a weekly basis. But this guy I know has tried starting poetry sessions on his own, contacting members of The Writers' Guild, but basically to no avail. Only two people have shown up to those meetings.


As far as officer involvement is concerned... I feel like I'm being "ousted" from my own student group. I've been left out of meetings and decisions among officers of the group. We're having a really big and really cool event in April, bringing in editors and writers from magazines and newspapers to speak about the journalism world--but I haven't been "allowed" to contact and invite any of the speakers.


On top of that, usually I'm left in charge of creating flyers and then we all help distribute them. But after I made them 3 weeks ago (and got them approved to be put up in the dorms on campus), I never saw copies in our advisor's box. So I couldn't hang any flyers up. So I didn't. I've spent a lot of my own money on prizes and food and copies of flyers for The Writers' Guild that I will never get reimbursed for, and frankly I didn't want to spend more money on more flyers out of my own pocket. So I didn't. And then the vice president posts on our website officer forum that maybe he should be in charge of posting flyers from now on, ya know, so it doesn't get messed up anymore--even though he forgot to put a free 30 word ad in the student newspaper announcing our meeting on Monday.


We have a fundraiser this month, called The Longest Sentence competition, that no one has signed up for yet, basically. I wanted it to simply be a sponsored writing event--like a Jog-A-Thon, where you get teachers, friends, family, to pledge a penny a word (or a penny a page) for every word (or page) you write in the span of March--so anyone could write anything they wanted, fiction, non-fiction, poetry or a play or a screenplay. But that idea was widdled down to The Longest Sentence contest--which isn't interesting hardly any of the students so far. A lot of the English department faculty are excited by the ingenuity of the contest and are hoping for the students to really give it effort--but what if we have only like one writer signed up?


I feel like just abandoning the experiment of The Writers' Guild.

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