Meso
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@koechophe, 1. What is a prescriptive story? 2. Then do the exercise with another story. I'm trying to help your writing. The haircut story can't make it into a fully funded mfa because literary fiction presumes you should avoid things like "I felt lousy," in favor of things like "Our car was 40 years old, and its dust made me cough." Maybe you write differently today.
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@koechophe, try as an experiment rewriting the haircut story with no inner thought. Instead of "I felt lousy," confine yourself for this exercise to expressing that through things like "Our car was 40 years old, and its dust made me cough." In other words, convey the lousiness through things like noticing lousy things and speaking about them in a lousy way.
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Why do poets get MFA's younger than fiction writers?
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@koechophe, are you sure you want to do the MFA when you are so young? You only get one shot. They won't let you get a second MFA in your genre. You get different things out of the MFA depending upon how advanced you are. I told @Ydrl to wait longer before starting her MFA. She declined my advice, and now regrets it, trying to get out of her school.
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Well, I think @MDP should read what @Ydrl wrote before patronizing her.
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@MDP, did you actually read what @Ydrl wrote, or did you decide the first summary you read was not as good as @koechophe's summary? Maybe @koechophe's summary is better, but @mrvisserwould be the first one to tell you that it is not entirely consistent to call yourself a fool for having believed a summary, when your only new ground is second summary. It is about sincerity. The reader must believe @MDP actually means what he says and is not just saying anything to ingratiate.
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@MDP, your advice is exactly what @feralgrad told @mrvisser to do. Feralgrad noticed the mrvisser had been rejected for a few years by every program and said to shoot a little lower, like for the crapppiest fully funded school. I went back and forth whether I agreed. Is it selling out your dreams or practicality? Then @Ydrlreported that she accepted an offer that was not one of her first choices. Next year came, and Ydrl wanted to transfer out; that is how much she hates her compromise school. She says her classmates are nice but not smart enough to learn from. Honestly, I still don't know what to recommend to mr. visser.
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@koechophe, which schools you applying to? Where did you apply last year? Didn't you get into Columbia? @mrvisser and @Ydrl, someone just made a bunch of posts on Draft about housing in Iowa City. They give good news for both of you. Rent is real cheap there. Would you like me to copy and paste the posts? It says you save big money if you have a roommate instead of a one bedroom, which is perfect since you two want to be roommates.