> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:25:12 -0400
> From: "Bob E. Hobbs" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Ideas
>
> So far several people have suggested that I try to turn my ideas into stories
> and write them myself. Doesn't one have to have a degree in English
> Composition or something to write novels? I apologize to those far more
> knowledgeable and experienced as authors if I sound a bit ignorant here but I
> have always thought that unless you have some God given talent for writing,
> one must STUDY how to be a writer. Being a fulltime artist, I think I'll
> stick with what I KNOW I can do and leave the writing to the experts.
>
> Bob Hobbs
I'd be willing to bet that the number of writers with English undergrad
degrees is quite low, and those wiuth graduate degress in English are
porbably lower. If you read academic criticism, like most English grad
students do, any ability to write intelligibly probably gets beaten out
of them by the sheer opacity of the criticism that they read. I think
the ability to write is independant of English degrees. I do, however,
think that reading is important. I would guess that most writers started
out as voracious readers. Of course, most directors probably start out
as film buffs.
Nicholas Ragovis
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