From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 6/15/14 3:10 AM, mumble wrote:   
   > On 06/14/2014 10:18 AM, Brenda Clough wrote:   
   >> On 6/14/2014 11:40 AM, mumble wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Yes, a creative writing course can only amount to some kind of   
   >>> introduction, but the author-blurb I'm referring to said that she had   
   >>> taken a *degree* in "Creative Writing". I didn't realize there were   
   >>> colleges with full degree programs in Creative Writing, but apparently   
   >>> the world moves on whether we're watching it or not. I can imagine a   
   >>> four-year program that would go a great distance toward teaching someone   
   >>> to be a writer of merit.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> A degree in Creative Writing is usually combined with a degree in   
   >> English -- I have one. IMO if you actually want to write fiction for the   
   >> commercial market you should not waste your time and money on a creative   
   >> writing degree. Better to get one in botany or systems engineering or   
   >> nuclear physics. Then you h ave something to underpin your SF.   
   >>   
   >> Brenda   
   >   
   > We all have our own views on the whole "career" gizmo, and mine has   
   > certainly evolved; if I was a young person who wanted to write fiction,   
   > I would study enough English to gain the necessary basics,   
      
   	My feeling is that if you have to STUDY it, you're not going to be much   
   of a writer. You have to already be IMMERSED in it. I read a book a day   
   from the time I was very small (6-8) through my late 20s (then I started   
   having to work hard enough, and have limited enough funds, that this   
   became no longer practical). I learned from immersion what language was   
   like and how it was used.   
      
   	To this day I can't diagram a sentence, but I know how to write anyway.   
      
      
      
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