I think that's ridiculous. I am an English major--hell, I'm an English major 'with a concentration in Creative Non-Fiction' and I'm trained in all that stuff and well-read in classics, folklore, and myths (not just the Western, Greco-Roman, Biblical stuff either), but honestly I feel like you have a much better chance of becoming an author than I.

I think about it and how many authors do I love who were actually English majors? None. Zip. Zero. How innovative are my fellow English majors? How innovative am I in a sea of other writers and English majors who wish they could be writers? Leads me to feel that people who write become authors and English majors become teachers and professors and perpetuate the cycle.

Rather than piddling away time learning How To Be Like Everyone Else In Your Department And the Mainstream of Respectable Fiction and Non-Fiction That No One Ever Reads, you learned actually useful things and lived a life and read stories which were enjoyable--which I think gives you Something to Write About. Everything else is practice, persistence, and luck.

Also, this:



I hope it cheers you, since that was the intention. I'm probably bitter myself and I hope that doesn't overpower an effort to cheer.