No Master's Degree Program Has Fit Me Yet
I just want to write stories. Stories don't come from nowhere. Stories come from facts, they come from experience, they come from practice, they come from the heart, sometimes even from the soul or divine intervention. Stories take work. I have dedicated the past eleven years to writing stories and perfecting them to the point they are what I intended.
But I don't feel I know everything. I know I don't know everything. I always seek more information and wisdom. I found writing teachers that aided me and keep seeking out ways of doing my work easier, because I find story telling very painful since all my life I have been told to keep my thoughts to myself, my mouth shut and just do work.
There are things I want to say and things I want to know. And what I want to write is both science and fiction, both history and future, both real, and unreal, both factual and emotional. It is the ultimate melding of everything I am and will be and if there is help for me to do it better, I hope to find it.
Since I have started on this task of finding a graduate program and what I believe my life's work is, I have had so many naysayers and so many who have accused me of everything from spending my life playing to being a whore. I am not listening to them anymore. I presented a no nonsense work attitude and credentials and they told me I lied. I have finished four books. I am working on three more. Some have offered to improve what I have done and are angry I won't work them more because I believe some things are finished even if they are not the best work I will do. This I accept. I want to move on to new and better stories.
The horror of my search for a college program has been that nothing fits. I am supposed to be 18 or they are afraid I will break expensive toys or will do something that in the past 50 years of my life I have yet to accomplish-an act of violence against someone else. I am told that I do no work, yet I am a wife who has duties to her husband, I have written four books, I have written 600+ articles, I have been a friend to those who would be friends, I have given all I can give in money and volunteer work.
But I will not give my life to someone else to live for me.
I will let you know if I find help.
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Published by Sheri Fresonke Harper
Sheri works as a freelance writer, novelist and poet. She worked in the aviation industry at the Port of Seattle and Boeing Company for 20 years as a systems analyst/architect where she edited and wrote over... View profile
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4 Comments
Post a CommentYour own experience in life is better than a diploma. You are your own agent in your life. Do what suits you best. We all don't come from the same material. You are perfectly Sheri and I am perfectly Verna.
Loved this article. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I too can not be put in a box. I honor your work and passions to be yourself. Great article and very affirming to artist's like you and I.
I totally relate to your pain. I've been working through Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way. She addresses many of the things you talk about. I'm anxious to hear what you find. I know you'll find it. Great writing! Merry Christmas :)