Saturday, June 07, 2008

the two-year itch

Amazingly, May 20 was my two-year anniversary of graduation. Two ... years. Clichés about how strange that feels leap to my mind, but I’ll spare you. We’ll just say it feels pretty strange.

So maybe that explains what I’ve been up to lately, on the sly, almost without telling anyone.

I’ve been investigating an MFA program, much to my own surprise. A Master of Fine Arts degree? I’ve said so many times that I’m not interested in one--for so many reasons.

I felt ready to do my own work; I wanted to write the book in my head. I could motivate myself, so what’s the need? Besides: I’ve heard that MFA professors tend to scoff at genre writing. For better or for worse, that’s what I’m writing right now, and too much scoffing might kill me.

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Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 06/07 at 09:57 AM
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