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There was the Wall Street banking crisis, the housing crisis and soon we will have the student loan crisis.
Hello hello hello, my brother and sister bloggers, writers and Flash Fiction Fanatics. If you’ve been paying attention to the latest media reports, the United States is about to be hit with another financial tsunami: tens of millions of undergraduate and graduate students will default on their student loans.
To get a degree, undergraduate and graduate students are taking on debt they will never be able to repay. And with the bleak employment picture projected to remain bleak for several years, many prospective employees with college and university degrees will be forced to work jobs they are over qualified for or jobs that have little to do with their fields of study.
Increasingly, the American dream is becoming a fantasy.
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A Free Education For Student Writers
If you are a student writer, you may be spending a lot of money learning to write. A formal education and a degree in writing can be a good thing, no doubt about it. I have an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh.
One of the things one of my professors allowed me to do was an “Independent Study.” This was a course I put together myself, with the approval of my professor, that I got credit for. Of course the Independent Study course was included in my tuition.
But every writer does a lot of self-teaching, too; and to help with your own self-teaching, you will find dozens of great writing tips and advice in the sidebar on the right under “More Flash Articles”. These articles have insights about writing that you will be able to use whether you write flash fiction, short stories or novels.
And it won’t cost you a penny.
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