I hate this sort of attitude...

[conuly]

Quick, distract me! I must not get sucked in! I MUST NOT GET SU- oh crap. *screams*

You failed me. *snifflesnifflesniffle*

Incidentally, I blame metaquotes for providing the link.

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

I had to comment :/ I have an English degree... and it was a massive amount of work to earn. And had I not gotten ill, it would likely have given me plenty of job opportunities. I did briefly hold a job because of it, but the health problems started pretty much just after I got the job, so it didn't go well. But still, there is plenty of use for good writing.

[conuly]

I really shouldn't be commenting. The twit is such a troll.

I need to go offline. I won't, but I should.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

*snarfles*

Niiiiice.

I just counted to ten and stayed out of it, partly because I'm trying not to contribute to drama, partly because the only words that come to mind are THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK.

[conuly]

It's already drama. I feel like I shouldn't participate, but if I do, it's not especially my fault - it'd continue with or without me.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

You know, now I was tempted to jump in, too. Which wouldn't have been a good idea because I'm bound to make stupid mistakes when I least need them...

But well, she "speaks like how she talks for the sake of comments". One has to understand that. Even though I think I'd leave that "how" outta there...
*siiiigh*

But I really enjoyed your comments.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

Conuly: RAR CONULY SMASH PUNY TROLL.

Troll: zomg! run! it's Conuly! aiie!

*cheapsound effects. bssshuuu! stompystompy BBBEeeww!*

Sorry. It's what I thought of first when I read that.

[deceptica]

Hehe... I just looked what they wrote about this at fandom_wank, and look! Someone has a secret crush on you now! ;-)

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

I'll be graduating with an English/creative writing major, so here's my perspective:

Writing classes are useful because they give you the opportunity to engage in regular critique and discussion of your work with people who are serious about writing (and therefore won't make fun of you for wanting to write), and you also get the feedback of a teacher who's been writing for decades, often professionally. These are good and useful things.

However, much of what you learn from such classes can be learned from reading anything and everything you can get your hands on and by practicing as much as possible. I do believe in the existence of natural talent, and if you don't have that all the practice in the world won't really help you. But if you do have talent, then the practice and the reading and the more practice will develop your talent to its fullest extent.

Of course, after I graduate with this creative writing major, I'll be heading straight into history, so... yeah. I think studying English is really only useful if you plan to teach English at some level, but then the same can be said of history or many of the other liberal arts. I'd also be careful to distinguish between English writing and English literature as majors; the two have very different goals.

[conuly]

Aw :) Usually they can't stand me over there.

[conuly]

*grins*

[conuly]

I wouldn't've even brought it up if she hadn't jumped all over somebody else for the exact. same. thing. Bitch.

[conuly]

But do you think that by not studying something inherantly useful you are somehow a bad bad person?

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

it's even funnier when I act it out.

[conuly]

Ooh, do you use a troll doll?

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

nonono.

You get up, and stomp around. going rrawwwr! and making th enoises! Like...GOZILLA!

:D

[leora.livejournal.com]

That was my opinion too, until I had one really good English teacher who actually taught me clear, applicable things I could apply to my writing to improve it. It helped me a great deal.

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Not really. Should I?

I already know how to do "inherently useful" things anyway -- cooking, carpentry -- so I'm not worried.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I had to comment :/ I have an English degree... and it was a massive amount of work to earn. And had I not gotten ill, it would likely have given me plenty of job opportunities. I did briefly hold a job because of it, but the health problems started pretty much just after I got the job, so it didn't go well. But still, there is plenty of use for good writing.

[conuly]

I really shouldn't be commenting. The twit is such a troll.

I need to go offline. I won't, but I should.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

*snarfles*

Niiiiice.

I just counted to ten and stayed out of it, partly because I'm trying not to contribute to drama, partly because the only words that come to mind are THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK.

[conuly]

It's already drama. I feel like I shouldn't participate, but if I do, it's not especially my fault - it'd continue with or without me.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

You know, now I was tempted to jump in, too. Which wouldn't have been a good idea because I'm bound to make stupid mistakes when I least need them...

But well, she "speaks like how she talks for the sake of comments". One has to understand that. Even though I think I'd leave that "how" outta there...
*siiiigh*

But I really enjoyed your comments.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

Conuly: RAR CONULY SMASH PUNY TROLL.

Troll: zomg! run! it's Conuly! aiie!

*cheapsound effects. bssshuuu! stompystompy BBBEeeww!*

Sorry. It's what I thought of first when I read that.

[deceptica]

Hehe... I just looked what they wrote about this at fandom_wank, and look! Someone has a secret crush on you now! ;-)

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

I'll be graduating with an English/creative writing major, so here's my perspective:

Writing classes are useful because they give you the opportunity to engage in regular critique and discussion of your work with people who are serious about writing (and therefore won't make fun of you for wanting to write), and you also get the feedback of a teacher who's been writing for decades, often professionally. These are good and useful things.

However, much of what you learn from such classes can be learned from reading anything and everything you can get your hands on and by practicing as much as possible. I do believe in the existence of natural talent, and if you don't have that all the practice in the world won't really help you. But if you do have talent, then the practice and the reading and the more practice will develop your talent to its fullest extent.

Of course, after I graduate with this creative writing major, I'll be heading straight into history, so... yeah. I think studying English is really only useful if you plan to teach English at some level, but then the same can be said of history or many of the other liberal arts. I'd also be careful to distinguish between English writing and English literature as majors; the two have very different goals.

[conuly]

Aw :) Usually they can't stand me over there.

[conuly]

*grins*

[conuly]

I wouldn't've even brought it up if she hadn't jumped all over somebody else for the exact. same. thing. Bitch.

[conuly]

But do you think that by not studying something inherantly useful you are somehow a bad bad person?

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

it's even funnier when I act it out.

[conuly]

Ooh, do you use a troll doll?

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

nonono.

You get up, and stomp around. going rrawwwr! and making th enoises! Like...GOZILLA!

:D

[leora.livejournal.com]

That was my opinion too, until I had one really good English teacher who actually taught me clear, applicable things I could apply to my writing to improve it. It helped me a great deal.

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Not really. Should I?

I already know how to do "inherently useful" things anyway -- cooking, carpentry -- so I'm not worried.