You realize, of course, that your opportunity to attend a fully funded MFA program puts you in a completely different class than myself, where I attended an online program at a private, for profit University.
Iām sure you also realize that maybe two of your classmates will ever make a living writing. You have to do this for the same reason Annie Dillard does it - āI write because I have to.ā
You visited Hopkins, Baltimore, but committed to Irvine. Is that a move for you?
My poetry prof was a guy named Terry Hertzler and he was fucking awesome. I do okay with sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, shit with structure, but otherwise, I am lost.
Iām a structure whore because I am a hack. I had a nineteen year old kid in one of my classes, and man, he could write. But, the vast majority of my classmates were worse than I. We all wanted to write, could afford the tuition, but honestly, we were workmanlike at best.
That being said, my screenplay COMING HOME was a semifinalist in the Creative Worlds Awards screenwriting contest, so Iām not a total hack.
I suspect your experience is going to be very different - at a fully funded program, almost all students can write.
Iām excited for you, looking forward to following your journey. How old are you, whatās your end game plan?