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12222003 No.12222003 [Reply] [Original]

Is college useless to be a writer?

>> No.12222031

>>12222003
sure, buddy.
You still got a chance! I believe in you, sweetie!

>t. mom

>> No.12222032

I don't like you and I don't like your thread; enjoy your ban

>> No.12222104

>>12222031
This hurts

>> No.12222107

>>12222003
Not if you get into an MFA program at a prestigious university.

>> No.12222122

>>12222107
you mean attend plenty of bar mitzvahs
the piece of paper is meaningless

>> No.12222138

>>12222003
It depends on what kind of writer you are. If you just want to be a decent enough writer who sells books, then going to a decent college will help you. And it will help you in these ways: it will allow you to network, it will introduce you to influences you otherwise might not have found, it might introduce some discipline and work ethic, and it should help you to hone your craft. If you’re pursuing greatness like many on this board (even though they won’t find it of course) it will not do much for you except put you in debt.

>> No.12222145

>>12222122
Rich MFAs are the only writers who get published and taken seriously. Otherwise you’ll just be larping.

>> No.12222149

Depends on your skin tone and orientation

>> No.12222158
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12222158

>>12222145
JKR never went to no MFA
Rupi did though, make of that what you will

>> No.12222166

>>12222149
Not at all. They don’t publish poor black and gay people, only the privileged ones. It really is a class issue. Personally I’m combatting it by studying machine learning. There is a lot of workers in this field. We should be able to automate fiction and nonfiction in a few decades at most. Hell, the social sciences are already mostly automated. Look up the program Nvivo. Clickbait is actually a stepping stone to machine produced best sellers. Your time is up you fucking Martha’s Vineyard faggots. Heil Burroughs!

>> No.12222172

>>12222158
I want to licki

>> No.12222238

Will learning about something make you better at it?

Good question OP

>> No.12222809

>>12222107
>>12222122
nobody actually reads MFA shit but other MFAs though, the teaching racket is a retarded circlejerk. when people say they want to be successful authors they don't mean they want to be some tenured old prune living a lie, they want to be a famous meme boy like DFW

you can do that with or without a pedigree, it's a roll of the dice if bougie twats will consider you fashionable or not.

>> No.12222828

>>12222809
>be a famous meme boy like DFW
>you can do that with or without a pedigree
>DFW didn't have a pedigree

>> No.12222879
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12222879

>>12222828
*blocks your path*

we can go back and forth posting examples of outsiders versus MFAs but ultimately the point is the MFA doesn't make the meme, the meme is just more likely to be MFA but it's not like it's required or predictable

>> No.12222913

No because when you inevitably realize you need to be able to feed yourself you’ll be able to find some kind of job

>> No.12223142

>>12222145
>>12222107
Has anyone ever actually read any of these MFA kiddies and thought "wow, that's a good book" ???

>> No.12223598

>>12222172
lick my balls