ten (plus) reasons not to be a writer

Did anyone else here study creative writing?

I done a summer course at St. Martin's one year. It was really fulfilling. Nothing formal though.

I cnat spel

1 there's no way to make a living at it unless you get connected to awful ppl or lucky
2 even allowing for that you'd probably have to write utter dreck to do well

3 heartbreakingly, im not sure my dreck would be up to scratch ;_;

I dunno about dreck, exciting plots and so on are a much-undervalued part of fancy literature de nos jours imo. I don't see why crap plot + literary pretensions should be any less dreck than exciting story + terrible prose, for example.

Oh i agree, dreck either way i mean

most of my heroes don't appear in no plot

Ugh double neg ur off the list

I took maybe four or five writing courses in college plus one or two outside workshops, so I guess I was considering it at one point.

Did anyone else here study creative writing?

I took an elective "creative writing" class in high school, but I can't say it took.

Later, after bouncing my way through three traditional colleges in under three years, I landed at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, where I was permitted to shape my own curriculum, as long as I could find a faculty member willing to supervise me. My interest was writing, but instead of "creative writing", I shaped my studies more broadly to encompass all kinds of writing. Basically, I studied rhetoric, in the classical sense of the term.

I did a degree in it; I don't think I ever learned anything from it.

Do you still do it?

I've not written any fiction in two years now, no. I do have a short story collection coming out soon though.

Loneliness. I always thought I was a lone wolf type, but I've come to realise that I'm not quite as comfortable in just my own company as I thought I was. I do need a bit of interaction to be able to get by properly, and spending weeks-on-end self-starting over a manuscript would be really hard.

this is the attraction of it for me. london's overcrowding makes me long for solitude more and more.