writing programs

Subject: writing programs
From: "Horton, Chris" <chris -dot- horton -at- ATTWS -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:56:54 -0700

>>>If professional writing programs are anything like creative writing
programs, then User Guides would be cryptic, useless...

Spare me. Creative writing programs vary in quality, of course. So does
any academic program. Teachers, curriculum, admission standards, all
play a part in shaping the experience. To work with known published
authors on a daily basis is richly rewarding for the gifted writer.

Writers (of all people!) should not stoop to the uninformed cliches that
savage the profession by associating "creative writer" with adjectives
like "cryptic" and "useless." The world's best writers have been
"creative" writers.

Chris

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