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May 20 07 12:26 PM

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After all of these years since high school - 17 to be exact; not as many as some, but many more than some - I have settled on an educational path.

I have been resisting it for several years, and honestly, since I was about 12 or 13 years old, but I have finally come to terms with it. I want to be a writer. To be a good one, I feel I need some skills. Additionally, there are things I'd like to study, and a university is the place to do that.

So, I am enrolling in a local college, for the purposes of acquiring the necessary coursework to transfer to a local university. This will take me time and effort, but I am determined to see it through.

I shall major in English, with a minor in Creative Writing. This suits my plans exceptionally well, and will give me the opportunity to study some amazing works, as well as teach me the skills I need to write myself, as well as set goals for me, as I must write to succeed in my plan.

I am a little nervous about it, but it is really what I want. For some reason, I have talked myself out of it repeatedly over the years, and it has even escaped my consciousness on several occasions, for far longer than it ought to have.

I look forward to it with great enthusiasm.

iaceu

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Jun 10 07 9:42 PM

Becoming a writer is something I´ve always dreamt about, but for some reason I´ve always felt like I can´t be honest about it, until now!
I´m going back to school at the end of the summer and I´m going to work my butt off to achieve my ultimate goal.

I wish you all the best and hope that all your dreams about becoming a writer will come true!

//PixieDust

Don´t try to fix me - I´m not broken

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Jul 4 07 11:54 AM

I think you both made the right decision iaceu and PixieDust! Even though I still am a high school student, I do have dreams about college (which is three years away...) and I'll work hard to make them come true. Setting goals and try to achieve them is really important in everyone's life.

I wish luck to both of you, and I hope you'll manage to make your dreams come true!

The road of life has many detours...

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Jul 4 07 1:03 PM

Thanks for the wishes, you two. The update to this is that I have been accepted, and I have submitted my FAFSA to see if I qualify for federal aid. Their return message was a joke, I tell you.

Next is the admissions and financial aid offices at school to get my tuition waiver taken care of (Connecticut REALLY honors its war veterans!), and see about loans and such, and how much credit they'll give me for courses taken in the Navy, and then I can register for the fall.

Pretty simple, actually. Then, I just have to do the work.

iaceu

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Jul 4 07 1:11 PM

Good Luck in all your efforts

It seems to be in the air as I too am looking into additional courses and I don't doubt that it may have been even longer for me since I was at school.

I was exchanging emails with Lee about it and she made a very good point. Write, write , write. (or something along those lines - sorry for the paraphrase Lee )

Something along the lines of practise makes perfect I think she was getting at. And its true. I only really started seriously writing stories about six months ago ans annoying Fiction Factor editors for less than half that but my writing is definately improving.

Still I want to better my writing everyway I can so I applaud you and intend on doing something similar although University scares me - I think I'll just go with the local creative writing courses. fictionfactor/baby.gif

Every bit of polish helps.

BT

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