Brooklyn Nine-Nine is made up of humour, great characters, and sassy one-liners. The show is full of great moments that can fit in a creative writing degree context.
Here are 10 Brooklyn Nine-Nine GIFs that sum up being a creative writing student at uni.
In high school, it was super rare to find someone who liked writing. Now you’re studying a course devoted to creative writing, so you’re surrounded by people who love the same thing as you, have the same weird habits, and just get the pain of writer’s block and cutting down words.
Uni and drinking alcohol go hand in hand. As a creative writing student, you like to think of yourself as a bit more sophisticated than everyone else. Instead of drinking goon straight from the bag, you like to drink fancy wine from a wine glass. It makes you look like an intellectual. You soon realise wine is super expensive and you can only afford the cheap stuff. No one will know, right?
You’ve poured your heart and soul into a piece to be workshopped by everyone in your seminar, and you think it’s pretty polished. Only for them to tell you that you need to make a drastic change such as getting rid of the protagonist or telling the story in another character’s point of view. Now you have to rewrite the whole thing.
At the beginning of every new class, everyone has to introduce themselves, say what they’re studying, and a fun fact about themselves, or what they want to be. You’ve been asked this hundreds of times before. It’s super awkward, and don’t want to answer it again. You don’t want to share any more personal facts about yourself.
Thanks to your editing class (and your course), you now know all of the copy edit rules and nitty-gritty grammar rules. You automatically pick up on any little grammar mistake anywhere, ranging from people’s speech to advertisements. And you can’t help but point it out, and people think you’re annoying for it.
You get an assignment to write a short story for class. But you feel so inspired by the idea with so many subplots, so you start writing a novel. You go way over the word limit and instead of a three-page short story, you’ve got a giant stack of paper that resembles more of a novella or novel.
You’ve got a short story assignment due at the end of the day. You’ve got massive writer’s block because yesterday you had to submit a novel chapter and the day before you had to submit a creative non-fiction piece. Your creative brain is fried, and you can’t think of anything new. You’ve got massive writer’s block.
You’ve had to write a short story, a chapter from a novel, and a creative non-fiction piece all in one week. You’ve had no time to work on writing your novel because you have no spare time and you’ve just used up too much of your brain. You can’t speak or spell in English anymore.
Not only is it about your writing, but it’s also about learning how to network. Networking can help get you to higher places and fast. You’ve been so focused on writing that you have no idea what to say or do, and you don’t know how to talk to proper adults. Can’t you just stay in your room and write and the social stuff can magically sort itself out?
You realise getting a job in the publishing industry is super hard. It’s way, way harder than you thought it was going to be. And you’re not going to be able to make a living from being a writer … not yet, anyway. So you’re going to need to get a normal person job. Where do you even start?
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