Hi, Bill, I just got home from Fairhope, Alabama, for the
Gulf Coast Assoc. of Creative Writing Teachers, and the
laptop wouldn't work, so that's why the delay. I don't think
they even had an internet cafe there, but I also lost almost
all day Friday in transit with plane delays so I didn't spend
a lot of time looking around for one. Anyway, sorry for the
delay. I don't get to use much crime fiction in my classes. I
use the Janet Burroway book for the creative writing students
because they're generally beginners and need the nuts and
bolts of technique. There's not much time for outside
reading. The normal students don't read much, I'm sorry to
say. I used to teach a mystery/crime class, but then it was
taken away from the college. Now somebody is trying to start
it up again, but I don't know if it will work out. I do allow
crime writing in the class and often mention it. I enjoy when
anyone can do a decent story, but I think it's more difficult
to write a good crime short story than a story of character,
because getting an interesting plot into that amount of space
is really tricky. Some of the older students have read my
books and they come to BCC for that reason, but there really
aren't many who are interested in writing crime. I try to
teach the basics that belong in any kind of fiction and leave
the subject matter open to the individual. Vicki
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