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Margaret Langdon
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/ #8 No support for novel writing

2010-11-20 08:25

The idea of only 50 hours tuition for students trying to write a novel to second draft stage is just absurd. A novel is a huge project, with a steep learning curve, and you need many hours, weeks and months to learn the craft, and to get the support and encouragement you need to keep going when it all seems too hard. There are some fantastic manuscripts being produced by Holmesglen students right now, but they are the result of students receiving PROPER support for two, three or even four years.

How are the future potential novelists supposed to manage? Well... most of them will give up, and that wasted talent will be a loss to all of us.