Writer School?

Writer School?


Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca





Here's something from my mailbag. "Dear Michael, do you need to


do good in school if you want to be a writer? I stink at school


and all my friends laugh at me when I tell them I want to write,


but I'm serious." Followed by a sentence or two of "I need your


words to encourage me" or some such nonsense.





Fortunately, a writing sample is rarely attached. If it is,


either it's excellent or it stinks like rancid yak butter.


There's a lot of middle ground in the writing world, of course,


but for some reason it never seems to accompany these emails.





The message is usually (but not always) View the rest of this article