Attend any writer’s panel, conference, workshop, or class; read or listen to any interview, and you’ll hear the question: How do you make time to write? In a world with working(!), sleeping(!), family obligations(!), housework(!), health-sustaining activity(!), various relationships(!) and, heaven-forbid, other interests(!!), how do you make time to write?
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The Do Over Program
There are diminishing returns in receiving a formal education for creative writing. I have a BFA and an MFA, and consider the experience of earning the MFA to be the greatest regret of my adult life. It’s not that I didn’t learn all the skills I needed to learn: craft, analysis, criticism, cold reading, writing for a cold read. It’s that learning these skills, and perpetually reinforcing them, clutters the font from which the writing itself springs. For me, this eventually meant no more writing.
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Nicole Connolly Writes 