During the final semester of my MFA experience, I was working directly with a prof on my creative thesis which eventually became my first novel. He suggested (rather insisted) I make all these cuts, telling me the words didn’t “propel the story forward” (those four words are red flags for, “this is why the college pays me. To tell a young writer his or her words aren’t propelling the story forward” when I have no fucking clue if they propel the story forward or not).
Trust Your Own Words
Trust Your Own Words
Trust Your Own Words
During the final semester of my MFA experience, I was working directly with a prof on my creative thesis which eventually became my first novel. He suggested (rather insisted) I make all these cuts, telling me the words didn’t “propel the story forward” (those four words are red flags for, “this is why the college pays me. To tell a young writer his or her words aren’t propelling the story forward” when I have no fucking clue if they propel the story forward or not).