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| Posted By: Syrgot Posted On: Jan 3, 2005 Views: 1383 | University of Arizona I have been accepted to the University of Arizona's School of Creative Writing! Just have to hear back from the University of Southern Califorina and I'll know where I'm moving, but most likley I'll go to UofA! I'm so excited! |
| Posted By: Becka Posted On: Jan 3, 2005 Views: 1381 | RE: University of Arizona Congrats! |
| Posted By: Blue Posted On: Jan 3, 2005 Views: 1379 | RE: University of Arizona Many felicitations on your impending career. |
| Posted By: observant Posted On: Jan 3, 2005 Views: 1372 | RE: University of Arizona That's awesome! Hope you have a great time. |
| Posted By: Aurora Posted On: Jan 3, 2005 Views: 1366 | RE: University of Arizona Hey! Glad to hear it, I'm very happy for you. |
| Posted By: Dr. Zhivago Posted On: Jan 3, 2005 Views: 1363 | RE: University of Arizona Nice goin' Syrgot! I'm sure you'll have a frickin' blast there...creative writing should be very cool. Good luck! |
| Posted By: Ren Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1348 | RE: University of Arizona That'll lead to a GREAT career. GOOD LUCK. |
| Posted By: Bob Dole Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1345 | RE: University of Arizona Not to be mean but what GREAT career can come from a degree in creative writing other than writing for the Democratic party? |
| Posted By: Bob Dole Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1343 | RE: University of Arizona Syrgot: If the writing thing doesn't work out, you can always go back to being "gay for pay". Either way, the University of Arizona is a crappy school. By the end of it, you'll be spelling like Dragonkid. |
| Posted By: Syrgot Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1333 | RE: University of Arizona Thanks everyone!!!! Dole: This is an example of one of those times when it is hard to tell if its the real you or not. But to answer whomevers question it was, the career I do want is to be a teacher of poetry, and a novelist... well... I'd be happy just being a novelist if I could pull it off, but you gotta be realistic and know that making money in it is going to be a tough battle. The term "starving artist" was invented for a reason, but as long as I'm surviving on my art, I don't care if i'm hungry. |
| Posted By: Bob Dole Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1329 | RE: University of Arizona I figured it had to be a teaching job. You don't need a degree to write a novel. Roseanne Barr even wrote one. Personally I would rather be happy and rich as opposed to happy and starving but maybe that is just me. What kind of novels are you going to write? If you say romance, I am going to reach through the monitor and choke you. |
| Posted By: Syrgot Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1324 | RE: University of Arizona In A.P. English, after reading The Inferno we had to make our own diagram of hell, just a fun little weekend project. I did literary hell. Danielle Steel was one of the three souls inside Satan's mouth... so no; I'm not interested in romance. You do know that there is a difference between a 'Romance Novel,' and a novel whose plot is a love story though, right? I never focus on just one genre though, I have definitely done fiction with a love stories in them though. Crime is endlessly intriguing though I've only worked in that genera once, but plan to again when I get another good idea. Character development and believability is a huge thing for me. It's sad that there are so many commercial writers out there who don't focus on that as much as they should. |
| Posted By: Bob Dole Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1318 | RE: University of Arizona By romance novels, I mean the kind with Fabio on the cover. I would add that reading Dragonmaster's blog is also literary hell. I agree with you about characters in today's writing. There are better developed characters on this anonymous board than in most TV shows and movies. Crime stories, eh? How about one about a hit-and-run in West Virginia - Lord I apologize for that last joke and be with the pigmies in New Guinea |
| Posted By: Syrgot Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1314 | RE: University of Arizona That's good to hear Dole, I am glad to know that you're not anti-love stories, but in fact anti-romance novels. I started writing a story that began with a hit and run... not in West Virginia... I think he was driving through Montana, havnt looked at it in a while. I didnt get very far with it though. |
| Posted By: Bob Dole Posted On: Jan 4, 2005 Views: 1310 | RE: University of Arizona A good story can't be forced and since you don't have an editor breething down your neck, wait for it to come. How about comedy? One of the hardest things to write but if you can do it well, there is money to be made. |
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