I took a lot of writing courses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.