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I've been too busy rummaging all over the Internet for writing gigs that I forgot to kick back and enjoy the grade I got for my PhD subject in the semester that just closed. The subject is Creative Writing 341: Advanced Workshop in Nonfiction Narrative. I've written about the manuscript I turned in in a previous post. The highest grade is a flat 1.0. The lowest, the failing mark, is a 5. Getting a 3 means you passed, by a hair. I got 1.25. (That means a lot of my classmates got a flat 1.) Not bad for someone who's not even in the PhD program.
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congrats! it takes a lot to impress those professors... and i think a 1.25 means you did a great job
well, congratulations. obviously, i can't say "good job" because I haven't read it.
you know the thing about these creative writing classes is that the grading is always subjective. i suppose there really isn't any way to make it objective. so it all depends, really, on the taste and style of the professor. much of the time, i think students, even PHD students, will write in a way that they think their professor will like.
there are a two categories that a writer will generally fall into.
1. he's rich to begin with and he can afford to study the art of his desires without having to worry about eating
2. he's not rich and is genuinely passionate about his trade
actually, a third one would be somebody who writes on the side as a hobby
unless you're a really popular writer, there is no money in this business.. also unless you own a newspaper or something. but then you fall into category 1.
which one are you?
Re: the grade you got, good for you!!
Kudos, Ayen!
allan, patricia: thanks!
dear ton:
no, i'm not rich to begin with so that i can afford, as you said, "the art of my desires." what i am, to begin with, is leaning a little towards madness. madness has a certain ting! inside your head and doesn't like to be deprived. i live and have to deal with it everyday. it is even my source of revenue. my coping mechanism.
since writing is the only thing i do well, i might as well be paid for it. since writing is the only thing that satisfies that ting! inside my head, i might as well write anyway, and for myself at that. call it self-maintenance.
so, the case is not that i am rich to begin with so tha i can study writing. i have to have a job so i can afford to study writing so that i can write better so that i won't go mad. and why do i have to study writing if i can just write anything anyway? because the madness in me wants to improve, and to meet other mad people.
it's a cycle. vicious even. :D
thanks, dean!
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