16Jan17 Bitchin but only a little.

I checked my mail today to see if the professors had posted any additional instructions.

Of particular concern was my writing class. As mentioned here recently, I finished a short story about a mother's struggle raising a child. At the end angels appear to discuss her fate. The issue is the appearance of the Angels. Technically they constitute a supernatural element.

The professor states emphatically there is to be no genre work.

This isn't my first creative writing class so I suspected this could be the case but wrote it anyway, my first mistake. I guess I figured the overall thrust of the story was literary in essence and I could argue the piece was more that than genre.

The frame of mind encouraged in graduate students is one that your opinion, your view is as valid as the professor's. We are urged to see them as equals, as kind of friends trying to help you be the best writer you can be. 

With that in mind my I initially wanted to argue my case and see if she changed her mind. But I think she can't allow me to break her rules and I should be considerate enough to not challenge her.

I could alter the story which is the heart of my post. 

It would be a small thing to remove the Angels. The old me would've gut the thing and moved on, mission accomplished.The story would still be effective.

The new me is refusing to do this for some reason. Some reason ha. The reason is it would lose something. This new me bristles at that thought. I sweated over this, to get it like this for a reason.

It remains as is, on to the next story. As vane as I'm loathe to say that sounds it is what it is. Still, the idea of me not changing it is interesting.