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3437343 No.3437343 [Reply] [Original]

Should I do a creative writing course? I think I remember you guys saying it was a bad idea a while ago and I just wanted to clarify.

>> No.3437350

I recommend reading this DFW essay before you make any decisions. http://www.theknowe.net/dfwfiles/ps/ffacy.pdf

>> No.3437352

>>3437343
Depends on your professor, bro. The creative writing teachers at my Uni are all the most bro bros I've ever bro'ed.

>> No.3437357

>>3437350
Maybe later.

>>3437352
I talked to one of the professors already and he seemed like a cool guy.

>> No.3437388

>>3437357
I'd recommend it man. I'm a Creative Writing/Business Management dual major (trying to get into editing and publishing after college). Just recognize that you need to take everything in the class with a grain of salt. It's still a class. The best way to learn how to write is to just read and write.

>> No.3437394

Trust me anon, if you want to go to college just to improve your writing, do English with a literature concentration.

>> No.3437402

>>3437388
I will read it, just later.

>>3437394
This is why I made the thread. I remember a thread on /lit/ a while ago about something like this, and I'm not entirely sure.

>> No.3437407

>>3437402
All the best writers read all the best writers before them.

>> No.3437409

You'll be in a class with a bunch of shitty writers and maybe 1 or 2 people who actually have some talent. Don't look to it so much as a means of improving your writing, as group criticism will either be bad, or nonexistent if the group recognizes that you're better than them, which in my experience is usually the case unless you get some outspoken fedora kid. For me it was a means of getting myself to actually sit down and write every week. I thought it was a positive experience overall. Also, critiquing the work of others helps improve your own writing.

>> No.3437415

>>3437402
Wut, I'm not the guy who said to read the thing. I'm the other guy.

>> No.3437448

Alright thanks guys. I think I have what I need.

>> No.3437485

I took one of those, and it was a waste of time and money. Nobody offered any real criticism, almost nobody was interested in anything but drinking and partying and screwing, and the teachers, while fun to hang with, couldn't teach me anything.

>> No.3439708

>>3437485
You missed the point of the course.
There isn't anything to "learn".
You are already literate.