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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
I took a lot of writing courses.
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.