The residencies would require taking all my vacation time, unless I worked out some way to do several weeks of Hell On Earth where I did the residency during the day, then let myself into the office at night to process copy...
Quite a bit of it is masterbatory at best, and the only thing worse is those who worship it with fanatical fervor.
And that's why I stopped going to writer's room things in the Berkshires. I swear, I'm the only person around here who:
A) writes pulp fiction B) enjoys pulp fiction C) is not afraid to admit to A and B in public
LitFic and the LitFic cult just piss me off 98% of the time. And I fret that the NF division of the MFA is just "how to write another crappy memoir" - but that's why you contact the department and make with the prescreening, eh?
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Quite a bit of it is masterbatory at best, and the only thing worse is those who worship it with fanatical fervor.
And that's why I stopped going to writer's room things in the Berkshires. I swear, I'm the only person around here who:
A) writes pulp fiction
B) enjoys pulp fiction
C) is not afraid to admit to A and B in public
LitFic and the LitFic cult just piss me off 98% of the time. And I fret that the NF division of the MFA is just "how to write another crappy memoir" - but that's why you contact the department and make with the prescreening, eh?