/lit/ - Literature

>>10680947
step 1: be good at english naturally
step 2: let that fact carry you through public school and most of college
step 3: realize that writing essays is a useless skill

>>10680947
Get an MFA

Writing a lot of them


and paying close attention to your teacher's notes/corrections/suggestions if you're lucky enough to have those

>>10681929
this.

if you're lucky you'll have written a thousand or so before you finish school and you can have them published as juvenilia when you get famous. sort of like harlan ellison including those shitty jokes he wrote when he was fifteen, in "the essential ellison".

Read Loren Eiseley.

Cry at your lack of ability and give up.

>>10680947

brainstorm, form vague thesis, write arguments with supporting text to develop thesis into something robust, have final, real thesis. Done.

The trick is to write your arguments first and pull your thesis from your arguments. Not the other way round.

>>10680954
maybe for you because you don't know how to apply that skill to other realms

>>10681839
absolutely not

>>10680947
By writing them.

>>10680954
>step 3: realize that writing essays is a useless skill
I closed two businesses using four essays to support our argument.

>>10681929
>Writing a lot of them
I disagree. Mastery of the subject material is more important. A master of writing that is entirely ignorant of the subject matter at hand cannot write anything of import regarding that topic.

bump

Write a lot of them and use whatever journal databases your uni is subscribed to to fluff out your text with arguments from the opposite side.