I have all of these short stories, novels, novellas, poems and God knows what else on my laptop. I work on them in the afternoons, because I have always wanted to be a writer.
However, I love teaching as well, so I thought I would ride the teaching train for awhile and publish when I got my Ph.D.
The more I think about it, though, the more I'm not 100% sure a Ph.D. is helpful in writing books. I mean, I would LOVE the Ph.D., but I'm not going to break the bank for it.
Recently in the online version of the Om@h@ paper, they had links to NE writers guilds and writing groups. I immediately thought, "COOL, I should totally go to the meetings!" But, then the antisocial, hermit in me was like, "Fuck that shit." (Yes, I teach at a Catholic high school and curse like a sailor--I have a curse-free 'teacher mode' while I'm teaching).
I'm thinking I should at least give it a try, but the one group is at 72nd and D0dge on a Friday night right after rush hour. I can imagine how fun that would be to get to!
However, I do want to write...and if I did manage to get something published that would help me get into a Ph.D. program... I hate indecision.
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