Actually, no. I'm seventeen and haven't yet been to college, but I work as a writer for an advertising company. And publishers don't really look at your schooling unless it has to do with your work (like a courtroom thriller being written by a lawyer). If you have a specific genre that you always write in, then going to college for that might be the way for you to go.
Of course, I'm aiming to be an FBI agent as well as a writer someday, so I have other concerns as well.
Long enough to learn how to spell college.
He went to college at NC State.
Cynthia Lord has not released the exact year that she attended college. She is a school teacher as well as a writer.
None, go to college. You can't even spell college right now so what makes you think that you can write?
Go to college, and apply for a job as the American Girl Writer.
These jobs don't necessarily require a degree of any type. It certainly doesn't hurt to have one when being interviewed.
The well-known sports writer Mike Lupica is a graduate of Boston College.
To be a true writer you can choose to get degrees and go to college and all of that or you can be an ordinary person who actually doesn't have a college education. It is easier to be a writer with a lot of education, but it's nor really required. Pretty much anyone can write a book, but not everyone can write a good book.
North Carolina State
No, there are no requirements to become a fiction writer. You do not need to major in anything, and you do not need a college degree, although college degrees can help.However, some skills a writer must have are:DiligenceCreativityPatienceMotivated Attitude.
Yes, to some extent. During his childhood, he did want to become a writer but knew it wasn't entirely what his father wanted him to do. The desire to write grew until he was able to oppose his father, after they had moved to America, and go to college to become a writer.
First, you would have to go to a college or university and take some classes in either English, communication, or journalism. Then you would have to go to the actual paper and apply for job.