- Joined
- May 1, 2018
With art, college can teach you how to draw good. It can teach you how a proper story is formatted. But it can't necessarily teach you how to be creative. Creativity is induced by an exposure to a multitude of different content, perspectives, and ideas. If you're pigeonholed in something like Autumn is, it will be hard to tell an interesting story, because it's going to be a repeat of the limited amount of things that you've seen--especially to others in your circle, who have likely seen the exact same things you're inspired by, and their brains are more likely to recognize that pattern and see the story as boring (unless they're autistic, which then they'll latch on like leeches because autism causes that intriguing disposition). All college will do is teach her how to write a story that follows a beginning, middle, and end, but she won't understand the 'why' of what makes a story good no matter how much they tell her, because she doesn't expose herself to enough literature, well-written movies, etc. that she can compare what she's learning to what she's already seen. What she needs is to move outside her bubble and expand into new territories of media--more than children's shows and LGBT content on twitter. She needs to watch adult-oriented shows (LIVE ACTION) and movies that have merit behind them in order to understand what makes a good story. There are exceptions to children's content, as there are exceptions with everything else, but until you know what makes them the exception, you aren't going to know why it's a good exception and how to integrate that exceptionalism (the good kind) into your own content. Her lack of creativity is indicative by how easy it is for outsiders to see what she's copying. She has little creativity to call her own.
