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lyrablackheart aka Heather is a 26.59 year old girl, has been a member since May 28, 2007, has scored 239 submissions, giving an average score of 2.74, helping 6 designs get printed.

May 28 '07 by lyrablackheart
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Being A Writing Major...

about Haikus Are Easy, But Sometimes...

...this shirt is perfect for me. I just graduated from college with a degree in professional writing, so I think this might be my first purchase.

renfrue on May 28 '07 at 9:52pm

good choice!

chelly on May 28 '07 at 10:46pm

i've never heard of a "professional writing" as a degree. is it in journalism or literature or other? being a writing major, does it bother you that haikus may be spelled wrong?

schleb on May 28 '07 at 10:47pm

would it be haikues?

tracerbullet on May 28 '07 at 10:48pm

If you're a writing major, how come you just started this blog with a dangling modifier?

OH SNAP!

tracerbullet on May 28 '07 at 10:48pm

I also just graduated with a degree in writing, though. So go us.

lyrablackheart on May 29 '07 at 2:20pm

I'm a writing major, not an ENGLISH major. We took a grammar test for our senior seminar and everyone failed. It was awful.

Professional writing deals with every type of writing: business, sports, technical, poetics, creative, poetry, and writing in cyberspace. It was very intensive but definitely broadened my horizons in terms of what kind of writing I enjoy, now.

Actually, I'm pretty sure haiku is already plural, kind of like deer and moose, can mean one or more than one. But don't quote me on that.

Iheartgus on May 29 '07 at 4:31pm

yay! go writers! I just graduated with a degree in creative writing.

shirtflirt on May 29 '07 at 4:32pm

haha, i graduated with a creative writing major as well

and i

don't write professionally. good luck.

martiandrivein on May 29 '07 at 4:32pm

haha, I hadn't seen this blog... =P you guys are funny. GLAD YOU ENJOYED my haiku. =P!

shirtflirt on May 29 '07 at 4:35pm

yeah, going to school and finding classes in something that interests you is TOTAL bullshit.

i'd have to agree

shirtflirt on May 29 '07 at 4:36pm

all novelists think they poo flowers

and have the brains of ten stephen hawkin(g?)s

pompous suicides waiting to happen, the lot.

Iheartgus on May 29 '07 at 4:36pm

I find it ironic that almost all of the great novelists say that creative writing majors are bullshit.

yes, but it's funny how so many great authors end up teaching it... i'm not planning on writing professionally, although for my internship that starts tomorrow, she said I could write copy....

shirtflirt on May 29 '07 at 4:42pm

we're all whores.

martiandrivein on May 29 '07 at 4:42pm

...I'm not... well, not really at least.

skafiend007 on May 29 '07 at 4:43pm

Ok, no offense, but I don't know about this "writing major" stuff. I have my primary degree in journalism, and I've worked for newspapers and a few small magazines, and I know that it was NOTHING like writing a business paper (and I've written business related things like annual reports, etc.). And I've also written poetry (OK, bad poetry), and participated in slams (and competed in the nationals a few times) and I know it's NOTHING like writing sports (which I've done) or feature stories or hard news stories (which I've also done),etc. But learning how to write poetry, technical reports, business reports, sports, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc., all in one class???? Wow.

Oh, and what's the difference between "poetics" and "poetry"?

shirtflirt on May 29 '07 at 4:46pm

aristotle wrote one

shakespeare wrote the other

Iheartgus on May 29 '07 at 4:47pm

I think English degrees are actually very marketable. Being able to write well is something of a commodity.

martiandrivein on May 29 '07 at 4:49pm

but I'm not a writer!!!!!!!!!!... just part whore, part graphic designer. haha

Iheartgus on May 29 '07 at 4:51pm

I'm part writer part designer too. But I think they fit nicely together because I love fonts and text and designing fonts... so it goes well with my English major.

lyrablackheart on May 29 '07 at 4:56pm

skafiend007: Not all in one class, silly! That was my ENTIRE major. I also forgot to include rhetoric, that was a fun class. And Evolution of Writing, and Writing Children's Literature. This major just gets you prepared for any type of writing you want to do, and my internship was copy-editing, which I have fallen love with, so I hope to do that in the future.

Also, English degrees are not very marketable unless you want to teach, and even then you have to go and do more schooling. As for my major, here is the link to our website:

http://www.cortland.edu/profwriting/

Iheartgus on May 29 '07 at 5:05pm

I am happy with my English major. At first I thought it wouldn't be marketable because people always asked me if I was going to teach. But it was really easy for me to find a position after college. And I agree that a vast majority of educated people can't write a simple formula like making a statement and then proving that statement.

skafiend007 on May 29 '07 at 5:26pm

skafiend007: Not all in one class, silly! That was my ENTIRE major.

Ok, ok, don't slap me....

But I'm still a little confused on how this works. I'm not saying that you're not a good writer, but if jounalism is only a small part of this entire major...

I mean, I had to take FOUR YEARS of various types of journalism classes (sports writing, technical reporting, feature writing, copy editing, news reporting, investigative reporting) just for a journalism degree. So does this class mean you're prepared to be a journalist or a poet or a technical writer for manuals or a children's novelist or whatever kind of writing you want to do?... I'm still confused, but it wouldn't be the first time... :)

martiandrivein on May 29 '07 at 5:29pm

heck...you guys DO write alot...I don't even wanna read all that

icebar on May 29 '07 at 5:30pm

i think rolf checks the blogs about his shirt every day...

martiandrivein on May 29 '07 at 5:31pm

nope...

icebar on May 29 '07 at 5:32pm

jk :)

Aristarchus on May 29 '07 at 5:34pm

I'm always amused by people who think that taking a class -- or even a whole series of classes in a program -- makes you a writer.

And I "teach" Writing.

lunchboxbrain on May 29 '07 at 5:36pm

I can personally attest to the fact that English majors can make a decent living in today's market. You'd be surprised how business people can't write copy for their own website. I did study a lot of necessary subjects and suffered through a lot of critical essays on Yeats, Hawthorne and worst of all, Henry James.

Glad those days are behind me :)

Iheartgus on May 29 '07 at 5:55pm

I'm always amused by people who think that taking a class -- or even a whole series of classes in a program -- makes you a writer.

but then what would be your definition of "a writer?" getting published?

ISABOA on May 29 '07 at 6:04pm

being a major asshole I neither read nor cared for this blog, I only posted pointless tripe and a tractor photo.

shirtflirt on May 29 '07 at 6:07pm

i heartgus, yes.

everyone writes. in some way

martiandrivein on May 29 '07 at 6:08pm

I never write anything

Aristarchus on May 29 '07 at 6:08pm

but then what would be your definition of "a writer?" getting published?

Writing. And writing honestly.

Iheartgus on May 29 '07 at 6:10pm

okay i can buy that... "writing honestly." Actually, I would have to agree. I was scared you were one of those high and mighty people. Sorry for making that judgment.

shirtflirt on May 29 '07 at 6:12pm

honesty don't pay the bills.

and then you die and get 'discovered'.

ISABOA on May 29 '07 at 6:12pm

Aristarchus on May 29 '07 at 6:13pm

'BOA, that's not a big enough tractor. Can you find a picture of a larger one?

ISABOA on May 29 '07 at 6:14pm

ISABOA on May 29 '07 at 6:15pm

Aristarchus on May 29 '07 at 6:15pm

There we go.

Now that's a tractor.

martiandrivein on May 29 '07 at 6:16pm

hahaha

ISABOA on May 29 '07 at 6:19pm

* HONK HOOOONNNNNKK

Aristarchus on May 29 '07 at 6:26pm

This is still my favourite tractor, though...

Kokochiyoi on May 29 '07 at 6:31pm

I'm an english major but I don't really wanna be a journalist or a teacher after college. What were your classes like as a writing major? And what kinda job are you going for?

lyrablackheart on May 29 '07 at 6:40pm

Right now I'm working as a stacks manager in a library at Cornell University (and yes I AM name dropping). The classes were all right. It doesn't prepare you to be a journalist (we had a communications major for that) but it prepares you to write professionally. I posted the website further up, go take a look if you want.

Those are some mighty fine tractors. But where are the pictures of some mighty fine farmers?!?

ISABOA on May 29 '07 at 6:56pm

it's not about the man, it's about his tool

lemonalle on May 30 '07 at 1:31pm

i iz a writer

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