Welcome to MFA Lore!
This is the very first post in a brand new section of Aimee Liu’s Legacy & Lore newsletter. In this section I’ll be switching gears, from writing about my family legacy to sharing my legacy as a creative writing professor. In other words, instead of focusing on my writing, I’ll be offering tips that might help you with yours.
The bulk of these posts will be drawn from my correspondence with MFA students and teachers over 15 years. Many of these letters originally were very specific to work in progress, but I realized as I reviewed them that they also contain nuggets of insight that will apply generally to anyone writing creative nonfiction or fiction. I’m not a poet or playwright, so if poetry or drama is your wheelhouse, then I may not be of much help. But if you write prose, you’re in the right place!
Here’s how this will work. Because each post is distilled from a private conversation, you’ll find the tone quite personal and specific. You may also see a few deta…
