Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried commented on Michelle Haimoff's article Five Reasons Not to Get an MFA - Reason #1

March 2012

An MFA is a Master of Fine Arts degree. In this case, the degree is in the field of creative writing. And no, they really don't cost $50k unless you want them to. My program, one of the country's top three at the time (I haven't looked at the...

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Susan Helene Gottfried commented on Michelle Haimoff's article Five Reasons Not to Get an MFA - Reason #1

February 2012

Wow. When I was an MFA student, we never spoke of what we were working on, and people outside the department didn't ask, either. Maybe my program was different, but ... yikes. Being there was visible proof of the fact that you were GOOD, that you...

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Susan Helene Gottfried commented on Petra Kidd's article Hmm just a short one!

February 2012

Hi, Petra. Thanks for the friend request! I hear you about time management; it's something we all face. Maybe we should make a SheWrites time on Twitter and challenge each other to take an hour and write a thousand words? I have other friends who...

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Susan Helene Gottfried commented on Jill Starishevsky's article Share Your Facebook Fanpage with Fellow SheWriters

October 2011

http://facebook.com/WestofMarsFans I'm expanding it beyond just myself, so if you run into any great Rock Fiction reads, be sure to post 'em on my wall.

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