A question, and hopefully some suggestions...?

[morganblalock]

Hi, I'm Morgan--high school sophmore and "aspiring author" haha.
I always knew this was what I wanted to do, but now I'm thinking it's time to proceed into the college-themed, future-ahead planning stage. Ugh, right?
Anyway, here's the q: What are some amazing (note: not good, not passable, not okay--AMAZING) colleges and universities out there for writers/authors/creative-writing people?
I would love love love some answers. I have already heard that Syracuse has a great program, any others?!?

[andave_ya]

Patrick Henry College in Virginia has a fantastic sounding literature program; in fact it is the college I am hoping to attend.

[librarius_qui]

Hi, I'm Morgan--high school sophmore and "aspiring author" haha.
I always knew this was what I wanted to do, but now I'm thinking it's time to proceed into the college-themed, future-ahead planning stage. Ugh, right?
Anyway, here's the q: What are some amazing (note: not good, not passable, not okay--AMAZING) colleges and universities out there for writers/authors/creative-writing people?
I would love love love some answers. I have already heard that Syracuse has a great program, any others?!?


Each writer his own ... way, I think. I write, since youth, and I never thought about getting to a college to become professional, but then, I don't intend to live on this. I'd hate a book of mine as a best-seller. This is me, don't think like me ~

Isn't Berkeley a famous art school in California? (I hope someone will answer this, because I don't know, actually.)

I believe that, to be a good writer, you'll need to incline either to philosophy/psychology, or to physics/philosophy, or to history, or to the arts (music, theatre, painting ...) so as to use words as matter for writing. I'd love the world to have a new writer, not a new best-selling man ...

In my opinion, this job doesn't pay quite well ... Sometimes I question the value of a man who writes a book, the book becomes a movie, the movie moves a generation, and in the next generation, his work has no value anylonger ...

Again, that's me. Each one does what he thinks best.


:crash:

[morganblalock]

No, I agree. It's not others I am writing for, to be honest. I think you can only make it if you don't write for the masses--to write is, in my opinion, to give a part of yourself away, and you should not do it for just anyone.
Thank you so much for your opinion!

[Sonofjohn]

Each writer his own ... way, I think. I write, since youth, and I never thought about getting to a college to become professional, but then, I don't intend to live on this. I'd hate a book of mine as a best-seller. This is me, don't think like me ~

Isn't Berkeley a famous art school in California? (I hope someone will answer this, because I don't know, actually.)

I believe that, to be a good writer, you'll need to incline either to philosophy/psychology, or to physics/philosophy, or to history, or to the arts (music, theatre, painting ...) so as to use words as matter for writing. I'd love the world to have a new writer, not a new best-selling man ...

In my opinion, this job doesn't pay quite well ... Sometimes I question the value of a man who writes a book, the book becomes a movie, the movie moves a generation, and in the next generation, his work has no value anylonger ...

Again, that's me. Each one does what he thinks best.


:crash:

Writing is creativity. Creativity can not be taught.