I'm 28, do not know if i should apply for a mfa in creative writing or acting?
I have always always wanted to be an actor, ever since i was a kid like 5 or younger i would hide in the bathroom and pretend i was acting.
but i wasn't a good looking kid, i wasn't ugly but i sure as heck wasn't a good looking kid. my mom did send me for acting classes, and i got bullied so badly by one of the girls there that i quit after 2 classes.
I lacked a lot of confidence growing up, it was a nature thing, and nurture didn't help either. i didn't grow into myself until i was 16 or so, and by then i didn't think of acting any longer, instead focusing on time and efforts on art, culture, humanities and writing.
I have been writing for about 7 years nearly daily, I have reached a level where I feel that my ideas and prose are more or less mine, and before writing for 7 years, prior to those 7 years, i think since i was 14 or 15 I wrote poems constantly, I drew up lots and lots of plotlines, so I have had plenty of time to grow into myself not just as a person but as an artist.
I earned a BA in communications, literature and French in a Russell group uni in the UK, after I dropped out of art school, because creative as I was I couldn't get down to the technical side of it.
Now I'm working for a boutique advertising agency and I enjoy it, was planning to get into a MFA program for creative writing, but I can't get the idea out of my head that I should do what Stallone did, and Richard Gadd to a certain extent, write my own pilot and star in it.
Thing is, I'm getting much older, and I feel I have to stick to one thing or I would just drift around. I don't think I would have the resources or time to do TWO MFAs one in writing another in acting. I don't know which I should apply for.
I prefer Creative Writing because I am not new to it, and I have had my whole life trajectory planned out well if I did get into a MFA in writing. But also, I just think that if the whole writing thing doesn't pan out I really wouldn't have time to pursue acting.
recently i keep thinking of going for a MFA in acting instead. But am reluctant because to me I think it is a big risk...if i fail as an actor I really wouldnt have the resources and time to do another MFA in creative writing. Of course the obvious would be to go for a MFA in writing and take acting classes on the side, but I can't help but see how it'll be easier for me to get my foot into the door as an actor who finished a program at say Julliard or NYU, what do you think?
but i wasn't a good looking kid, i wasn't ugly but i sure as heck wasn't a good looking kid. my mom did send me for acting classes, and i got bullied so badly by one of the girls there that i quit after 2 classes.
I lacked a lot of confidence growing up, it was a nature thing, and nurture didn't help either. i didn't grow into myself until i was 16 or so, and by then i didn't think of acting any longer, instead focusing on time and efforts on art, culture, humanities and writing.
I have been writing for about 7 years nearly daily, I have reached a level where I feel that my ideas and prose are more or less mine, and before writing for 7 years, prior to those 7 years, i think since i was 14 or 15 I wrote poems constantly, I drew up lots and lots of plotlines, so I have had plenty of time to grow into myself not just as a person but as an artist.
I earned a BA in communications, literature and French in a Russell group uni in the UK, after I dropped out of art school, because creative as I was I couldn't get down to the technical side of it.
Now I'm working for a boutique advertising agency and I enjoy it, was planning to get into a MFA program for creative writing, but I can't get the idea out of my head that I should do what Stallone did, and Richard Gadd to a certain extent, write my own pilot and star in it.
Thing is, I'm getting much older, and I feel I have to stick to one thing or I would just drift around. I don't think I would have the resources or time to do TWO MFAs one in writing another in acting. I don't know which I should apply for.
I prefer Creative Writing because I am not new to it, and I have had my whole life trajectory planned out well if I did get into a MFA in writing. But also, I just think that if the whole writing thing doesn't pan out I really wouldn't have time to pursue acting.
recently i keep thinking of going for a MFA in acting instead. But am reluctant because to me I think it is a big risk...if i fail as an actor I really wouldnt have the resources and time to do another MFA in creative writing. Of course the obvious would be to go for a MFA in writing and take acting classes on the side, but I can't help but see how it'll be easier for me to get my foot into the door as an actor who finished a program at say Julliard or NYU, what do you think?
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