In a message dated 97-11-21 15:00:39 EST, you write:
<< I doubt there's been any studies done on this, but I
wonder just how many published writers actually TOOK any creative writing
classes or graduated in the "field.".......
>>
I took one creative writing class as an undergraduate. A horrible experince!
Hordes of dreary postmodern stories from my fellow students, trying to be
"meaningful." The instructor, a writer of artsy-fartsy short stories (you
know, the kind where nothing actually *happens*), who gave us as the text a
short story anthology with one of *her own* stories in it, told me I had no
talent. I failed the class!
Not that I have been terribly terribly published, but I have published three
short stories so far. When I sold the first one, I thought, "Hah, I showed
her!"
So, no, given my limited experince I would not go the university creative
writing program course. It's a red herring in my opinion.
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