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How much education does a great author have?

August 9, 2012 Leave a comment

Some time in the middle of high school I, like most students, had to start transforming a literal world of possible futures into a concrete decision about what I was going to do for the rest of my life. Ultimately I settled studying engineering in college, choosing this over literature/creative writing in no small part because I figured that a formal education was more important to being employed as an engineer than it was to being an author. After all, most great authors had no formal post-secondary education. Right?

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