SHOULD YOU STUDY CREATIVE WRITING? || an honest chat about the pros & cons of the major

[@ronaldgorny1531]

I second your opinion on the thesis. It's more than just WRITING a thesis. Its writing a thesis under the guidance and mentorship of a faculty member who is an expert and deeply interested in your research, which tends to build a strong long-term bond that holds the promise of a mutually beneficial collaboration throughout your career, as well as that of your mentor/thesis supervisor. All this to say that writing the thesis should not be viewed as just a short term fix one has to undertake in order to graduate, but as an exercise that deepens your own knowledge and appreciation of the topic while initiating a long-term academic relationship with the faculty mentor/supervisor that carries with it the capacity for productive engagement for years to come. If it was up to me, I'd make sure every student had the privilege and opportunity to engage in such a unique and powerful academic experience.

[@karinamak7368]

WOOO SHES GOING TO LAW SCHOOL 🥳🥳🥳

[@MakaylaMacGregor]

YOURE SO SUPPORTIVE ILY

[@Paul.Morganlll]

Thank you for this video i just got accepted into Spalding University in Kentucky!!! And my major is in creative writing as i am a young author and poet and this video helped clear up what this major was perfectly thank you

[@sigurdtheblue]

After watching this I realize how important the group critique format is important to my development and sense of self as a writer. At the same time, I had a creative writing class in high school that completely destroyed my sense of creativity because it felt like I had no freedom of speech with the format - it makes sense that I would avoid this type of setting for too long. Then again, if it comes to creating something every day I am not sure I could do it. I always felt like I needed to focus on a novel so maybe a class is not a good fit for me.

[@lw-gc3kd]

I live in a country where Uni is affordable, but sadly we don‘t have Creative Writing as a major, just one course! And it‘s reserved for the English Master students 😢 I am just writing for me and my friends and this works too

[@MakaylaMacGregor]

Ahh that's frustrating! That's awesome to hear you're still writing despite that (and I hope that they decide to make a CW major soon)!!

[@roxannehays]

This is super helpful and informing!! You're really well-spoken :)

[@itssimple-gb4vm]

This was SO HELPFULL. Thank you so much for this!❤

[@katrin_ree]

This is extremely helpful and informing! Thank you so much

[@alexalisa590]

Hi, loved this video! Just wondering, is there a big overlap between the Creative Writing and English majors? What's the biggest difference between the two in your experience?

[@MakaylaMacGregor]

They do have a lot of overlap since both require a lot of literature courses (at least at my school). The major difference though is that the English major will be a much deeper drive into published works - it tends to have a lot of breadth, too, requiring courses in different genres, time periods, and writing styles. There's also going to be a lot more writing about books with the English major, and less opportunities to produce fiction! I'd say that the bottom line is that CW is more about the writing and craft, and English is more about the reading and literary impact :) hope this helps!

[@JacquelineRobinson-ub5py]

I am going to major in communications with a minor in technical writing. I wanted to be challenged, that would be to fun to major in creative writing

[@ejfeg779]

The whole explanations in the video were very very practical and helpful. I enjoyed watching your video til the end and I could find Creative Writing major is quite different from other ones and the reputation of it and the skills that I can get depends on the colleagues I meet and my own writing skills. Such an interesting major, which seems like a perfect intellectual journey, unlike banal theoretical majors. But still I have some questions. Can you answer some of them, if you have enough time? I'm an English teacher who majored in English Education in Korea and is thinking about getting MA in Creative Writing in USA few years later. I want to hone my English to a native level to be a more professional teacher and a future writer. I'm 29 and I'm a male. There are two options that I'm thinking about after graduating from a graduate school there. 1. Coming back to Korea and continuing the career of a teacher and being a bilingual writer. 2. Trying to be a magazine journalist for introducing Korean cultures or dealing with issues in Korea in magazines in USA. Here are some questions and I will be so so thankful if you can answer some of them! 1. As an international student, do I need to master English "in advance (nobody will give feedback for grammar or wrong word choices)", or can I do it "through the courses" 2. Can an international student seek for the opportunity to get a job as a writer after the graduation? Or do I need to expect to come back to my country after that? 3. I think you meant to describe courses in creative writings are quite "spontaneous" comparing to other ones because "feedback' and "examples of good writing" are the major topics for most of seminars and workshop. Did I understand it correctly? 4. Are there many "theoretical exams" like other majors as well? Or only few? I just want to get much more feedback for "My writing" not compressed tips or theoretical knowledge for writings. 5. Do professors proactively give feedback and connect students to publishers/magazines etc or does it depend on each individual's own effort?

[@kxrimgh]

do you feel like it's more time consuming than difficult?? im thinking of minoring in cw and im not worried about the difficulty, just the time it could away from my stem major

[@BazColne]

Your fellow students had to listen to that creaky voice for four years?