Friday, July 27, 2007

On your mark ...

... Writers in Training. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

I actually don't think it's a good idea to go to school to learn how to write. I think it's best to read a lot and look around you and observe carefully what's going on and then just sit down and write ... and write ... and write.

3 comments:

  1. Maybe school might save you some deadends and detours, but then again, maybe those detours teach you even more about writing.

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  2. Let's say someone already reads a lot, observes carefully, and writes and writes and writes. Wouldn't it then be like a musical intrument, that someone, not everyone, might want to go to graduate school for, and benefit from it?

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  3. I just tend to think that turning writing into an academic discipline diminishes it as an art.

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