/lit/ - Literature

So, get this guys:
Some people really want to write. They write in their spare time, they write at school, they write before bed and when they wake up in the morning. Very good! To pursue one's artistic passions is admirable.
Some may be good, and some may not. Both get published in the high school literary journal, where acceptance is mandatory, but plenty of people outgrow their childhood fantasies and realize they are not cut out to be artists by the time they reach college.
Yet some writers of objectively abysmal quality choose to delude themselves into thinking that an artistic sense can be taught in a classroom! Instead of studying science or programming or anything marketable, and leaving the frilly nonsense of art as a side interest, they pursue an English degree with a focus in creative writing!
Then, get this, after saddling themselves with 200k in college debt, and still not being able to secure employment or even a trickle of freelance work, what do these dreamers do? Do they reevaluate their own potential while changing course is still an option? Of course not!
They pursue an MFA in creative writing. They choose to sit in classrooms for two more years, thinking that a little more theory and a little more nose-to-the-grindstone will make them into artists.
Assuming one enters a respectable program, they have just added another 100k in debt to their tab, the first 200k of which they have not even begun to pay off because they were busy dicking around at art school!
What is worse than the wasted time and money?
The fact that, after all that, they STILL CAN'T WRITE FOR SHIT.
But they will still always put M.F.A. in their twitter bio, their linkedin, and in every query letter they send.
Cracks me up every time.

So, get this guys:
Some people really want to write. They write in their spare time, they write at school, they write before bed and when they wake up in the morning. Very good! To pursue one's artistic passions is admirable.
Some may be good, and some may not. Both get published in the high school literary journal, where acceptance is mandatory, but plenty of people outgrow their childhood fantasies and realize they are not cut out to be artists by the time they reach college.
Yet some writers of objectively abysmal quality choose to delude themselves into thinking that an artistic sense can be taught in a classroom! Instead of studying science or programming or anything marketable, and leaving the frilly nonsense of art as a side interest, they pursue an English degree with a focus in creative writing!
Then, get this, after saddling themselves with 200k in college debt, and still not being able to secure employment or even a trickle of freelance work, what do these dreamers do? Do they reevaluate their own potential while changing course is still an option? Of course not!
They pursue an MFA in creative writing. They choose to sit in classrooms for two more years, thinking that a little more theory and a little more nose-to-the-grindstone will make them into artists.
Assuming one enters a respectable program, they have just added another 100k in debt to their tab, the first 200k of which they have not even begun to pay off because they were busy dicking around at art school!
What is worse than the wasted time and money?
The fact that, after all that, they STILL CAN'T WRITE FOR SHIT.
[Spoiler] But they will still always put M.F.A. in their twitter bio, their linkedin, and in every query letter they send. [/Spoiler]
Cracks me up every time.