Ehh, it's not like I had a choice. I pity tha fool who gets an MAT voluntarily.
My dad got one, but I'm pretty sure it was as part of his certification or something like that. (Then again, the man taught middle schoolers for twenty-odd years. There's no telling how crazy he can get!)
This summer is making me incredibly happy, because I have free time and I'm actually writing. A lot of it is crap, but it's more than I've written all year.
Meanwhile, I had nine months of total free time and I wrote...twenty pages. At most. And not all of the same thing. Sigh.
Anyway. She also cited being around interesting people who're researching interesting things -- which, YMMV clearly, but if it works, I can see how it could be a constant source of inspiration.
Hmmm. I can sort of see that. And yet, theoretically that was what writing seminars at Kenyon were like, and I hate most of what I turned in for all three of those. But I think that says more about me than about any kind of writing program...
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Date: 2007-07-25 10:26 pm (UTC)My dad got one, but I'm pretty sure it was as part of his certification or something like that. (Then again, the man taught middle schoolers for twenty-odd years. There's no telling how crazy he can get!)
This summer is making me incredibly happy, because I have free time and I'm actually writing. A lot of it is crap, but it's more than I've written all year.
Meanwhile, I had nine months of total free time and I wrote...twenty pages. At most. And not all of the same thing. Sigh.
Anyway. She also cited being around interesting people who're researching interesting things -- which, YMMV clearly, but if it works, I can see how it could be a constant source of inspiration.
Hmmm. I can sort of see that. And yet, theoretically that was what writing seminars at Kenyon were like, and I hate most of what I turned in for all three of those. But I think that says more about me than about any kind of writing program...