>What you did say in your previous post was that those programs were a
>complete waste of time. That's mistaken.
Actually, if she did say that, she's right on target. I would add they are a
waste of money and energy too. Just a bunch of pretentious wanna-bes who
should be writing from their hearts not from some manual dispersed by a
failed writer (most likely a professor or two of creative writing or the
like).
Great writers write from experience, such as Conrad whom spent most of his
youth at sea. Utterly ignorant of English at twenty, yet he still became one
of the best stylists and maganged a few great novels in that language...
The list goes on- Scott as the Princeton dropout, Papa earning his credits
via field experience, and of course the great J.D. Salinger, three colleges
and "no degrees". Didn't he go to Columbia but take courses for no credit?
My point is a practical-minded uncle and a life full of promise is what can
initiate the germintation of seeds where great writing may grow. Not an
"MFA" where a good writer may be surrounded by people who will tell him/her
how to write, while stiffling any creative drive they have and forcing them
to live like the others in the program; a life of quiet desperation (but
with a Master's degree no less!)
-John
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