http://wordsmithwannabe.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/aww/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:51:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://wordsmithwannabe.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/aww/#comment-4 Shanna Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:58:55 +0000 http://wordsmithwannabe.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/aww/#comment-4 An aspiring novelist too, I take novel writing classes thru UCLA Extension. My experience is that it really helps me to keep writing since there are deadlines involved. Plus, it is great to have regular critiques. My class costs about the same as the Berkeley one you are looking at, but well worth it. And the students in my classes are too busy workin on their own novels to have any interest in stealing mine. But I hear you on the $$$ ... after a B.B.A. and M.A. in print journalism, I'm kind of tapped out too! An aspiring novelist too, I take novel writing classes thru UCLA Extension. My experience is that it really helps me to keep writing since there are deadlines involved. Plus, it is great to have regular critiques. My class costs about the same as the Berkeley one you are looking at, but well worth it. And the students in my classes are too busy workin on their own novels to have any interest in stealing mine. But I hear you on the $$$ … after a B.B.A. and M.A. in print journalism, I’m kind of tapped out too!

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