Look, universities are expensive

and constraining and stressful

but writing isn’t, and shouldn’t ever be.

I think the system is wrong. I think

creative writing courses aren’t the path to take.

Let’s mix things up

let’s stop going to university

and spending our lives in debt

let’s do something completely incongruent

and alien to the current system of learning

let’s create a future for our words

by doing all the work ourselves.

We can make a difference.

I want to make a difference

and get better at writing while writing

by workshopping with writers/

attending open mic nights/

as a group sending our stuff off to magazines.

Have you ever been to a bad writing workshop?

I haven’t.

This may be a coincidence

or

testament to the soul of the activity.

I’m going to setup a project

revolving around workshops

open mic nights

getting each of us published

and not stopping until we’re all household names.

Anyway, the title:

if I build this

will you come to it?

-ndru