--- MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: > If you really want to go to school for writting, go for it! i didn't like my > college writting class. We had to read a dumb book called _Island_ by Adolus > Huxley (?sp) and then write what we thought about it. The best thing you can > get from writting classes is writting grammer. My teacher looked like he was > going to kill himself any day and I really didn't like the class as a whole. > I hated college. I quit. I went back to school though because I love > learning. I became a medical assistant. I don't make a crap load of money, > but I make enough and I love my job. I too hope to write a novel someday, but > I seriously think i have adult ADD because i get one of two chapters done and > don't finish. I started, at the least, 6 books! So do what you want, Kid ;o). > That's just the opinion of a disgrunted wanna-be writter. Don't neglect the mechanics. Spelling (never trust a spell-chucker [sic] to do it all, or to do it right), grammar, and so on. I have had some otherwise good reading experiences ruined by bad grammar and misspelled words on every page. dr. whom, consulting linguist, grammarian, orthoepist, and philological busybody aka mark mandel (by hand) http://cracksandshards.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com