"""Classes""" for writing fiction

>"""Classes""" for writing fiction
>Fucking HUNDREDS of dollars to enroll

Is this a fucking joke?

No, really, people actually pay HUNDREDS of dollars for this shit?

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I wouldn't pay that kind of money, but I would like to learn how to write a story.

You can't be taught to write fiction. It's something you either pick up after 10,000 hours of practice or you don't. If it isn't in you at the start, no amount of "learning" is going to help.

reading a lot, writing a lot and accepting criticism is all you need.

You learn by writing, reading, enduring criticism, and learning to parse the good feedback from the bad. You develop an inner ear and follow it. I believe higher education should be for more than just STEM degrees, but duping talentless, gullible teenagers into dropping thousands of dollars for a degree in writing is asinine. The fact that same-sounding writers are pumped out en masse through MFA programs is also annoying.

I read a lot, but I've never been able to come up with a story. Like I can appreciate a painting, but can't conceive of how to put oil on a canvas.

reading definitely helps you get better, but you won't learn to write fiction just by reading it. you pretty much always learn it through writing some yourself while reading other people's work.

at least that's what I'm trying to do atm.

There are people out there paying "pick-up artists". Think about that.

The program era has produced nothing but trash, and the problem is the programs themselves.

its all the shitty rules, I am baffled by the fact that some 18 y/o girl on youtube who has never been published thinks she know the rules of writing. But really all rules suck. Show don't tell? How about I show you my shit stained arsehole?!

Have you watched that ted talk thing, not actually a talk but some info-cartoon where she says how good showing, not telling is and then gives these heinous examples where just telling would be like 6000%+ times better.

Sometimes 'John wasn't happy' is better than 'Johns nob shriveled up in side his groin, his hair was a million worms with aids and he shit himself'