Many years after getting my MFA and moving straight into teaching, here I am finally trying to jumpstart a writing career and realizing there is so much to learn if you want others to read your words. I do think you need both, as you suggest. So many "book ideas" people have floated by me over the years don't come from that essential, inward place where art resides.
Many years after getting my MFA and moving straight into teaching, here I am finally trying to jumpstart a writing career and realizing there is so much to learn if you want others to read your words. I do think you need both, as you suggest. So many "book ideas" people have floated by me over the years don't come from that essential, inward place where art resides.
Many years after getting my MFA and moving straight into teaching, here I am finally trying to jumpstart a writing career and realizing there is so much to learn if you want others to read your words. I do think you need both, as you suggest. So many "book ideas" people have floated by me over the years don't come from that essential, inward place where art resides.