Ruining All the Fun We Can

In this class, we’ll do our best to make fun stuff not fun anymore. (Isn’t that what writers do?) We’re going to shine a very bright, glaring, uncompromising light on some of our childhood favorites, our children’s childhood favorites, superheroes, shapely little plastic women, Muppets, zippy serial killers (Road Runner comes to mind—how many times can he kill the Coyote before it takes?), and a squeaky black and white girlie who frequents the docks and can’t decide which of two men she loves. And then we’ll write. There will be a nice assignment for you.