tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post7037940708547076908..comments2023-11-02T01:29:11.575-07:00Comments on The MFA Chronicles: Dirty secret writing livesJayTeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923700657540655227noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-49594533706335228092010-01-23T15:02:38.778-08:002010-01-23T15:02:38.778-08:00My dirty secret writing wish: I wish I could write...My dirty secret writing wish: I wish I could write an amazing fantasy epic. I don't even write fiction at all, but I wish I could. I also have a long and abiding love of reading fantasy/scifi/speculative fiction/whatever you want to call it.<br /><br />Re: working in other genres. I'm taking a nonfiction workshop now, experimenting with writing a memoir. I think it probably will help me generate ideas for my poetry and perhaps help me separate my prosey instincts from my poetic ones.<br /><br />And a bunch of my MFA peers at Penn State are taking a lit course in the graphic novel this semester; I'm not in it (chose a lit sem in contemporary African American poetry instead), but it sounds really good so far. Nice to see that lots of other people are studying what I think is an under-appreciated medium.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02608421232179032744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-11315086864651011682010-01-23T14:27:06.883-08:002010-01-23T14:27:06.883-08:00What a bunch of dirty secret writing lives the lot...What a bunch of dirty secret writing lives the lot of us have! Excellent.Joshua Gottlieb-Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562233353440767788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-28098427308831535072010-01-23T08:23:48.509-08:002010-01-23T08:23:48.509-08:00oh i love that you get to study graphic novels! i&...oh i love that you get to study graphic novels! i've been reading many of them myself lately and wish i could draw so i could do my own :)Jessie Cartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13181286764480973423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-55898081129879438492010-01-22T11:09:15.489-08:002010-01-22T11:09:15.489-08:00I would love to work more in screenwriting and wri...I would love to work more in screenwriting and writing for television. I love writing fiction, but should I be successful I will one day make time for screenwriting.Ashley Brookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05694685347991149206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-62168103425060615682010-01-22T06:02:59.417-08:002010-01-22T06:02:59.417-08:00I'm a fiction student who's better with no...I'm a fiction student who's better with nonfiction. I'm taking nonfiction this semester and it is a big exhale.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08887749173643713230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-74355613221921057412010-01-21T16:24:31.038-08:002010-01-21T16:24:31.038-08:00ooooh Mat Johnson. More points for Houston!
So ot...ooooh Mat Johnson. More points for Houston!<br /><br />So other genres....I want to be a tv writer so bad that sometimes it hurts! I just can't seem to focus on learning how to really do that while I'm working on poetry. I don't think it will help my poetry but I think the economy of words thing I get from writing poetry (or am trying to get) will help me in screenwriting.JayTeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923700657540655227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-41394576424557532522010-01-21T12:26:11.573-08:002010-01-21T12:26:11.573-08:00I wish I explored the graphic novel more. UNCW off...I wish I explored the graphic novel more. UNCW offers a class in this. If I end up there I will take it. It takes me way too long to draw though because it's not one of my strengths, at least not the way writing is.Kerry Headleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09602075635546406069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-9179174404130449832010-01-21T10:23:13.116-08:002010-01-21T10:23:13.116-08:00I'm dying to write a trashy romance novel!I'm dying to write a trashy romance novel!Rachel M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03502351051782935897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396226836483140641.post-68514067782747122472010-01-21T10:11:48.885-08:002010-01-21T10:11:48.885-08:00I have a rather extreme obsession with graphic nov...I have a rather extreme obsession with graphic novels/memoirs recently and I secretly wish I could write one. I'm awful at visual art, though, and I'd feel like a fake if I wrote and someone else drew. I'm taking a graphic novel literature course this semester, though, and I know there will be a bit of writing involved, too, so we'll see if maybe I have a hidden talent for it.<br /><br />I think it's awesome that Houston offers that workshop! I haven't seen that anywhere else. That's really cool.<br /><br />Also, I wish I was a poet. Sadly, I am not.Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00374250073077357021noreply@blogger.com