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Self-learning supremacy.

It’s kind of like those “real estate seminars,” why would you create more competition for yourself unless you can’t make good money in real estate anymore?

Knowing what you write is shit and being able to tell why are two entirely different things and writing classes, to my understanding, are supposed to give you a few starting tools to bridge the gap.

To someone with a decent bit of previous experience, the offered rules may seem stupid and limiting, but waterhosing newcomers with exceptions upon exceptions is worse.
Sure you might miss the time to revisit their universal validity, but harmful cognitions will come taught or not.

@Zirrboy Yes, creative writing classes may give people starting tools but a lot of those starting tools (at least, in American creative writing classes) only seem to hinder creative ability compared to that of creative writing classes in other English-speaking countries.

To be honest, most creative writing classes are taken at a high school level or a university level despite being a 2nd-grade class. As for your claim of me water hosing newcomers with exceptions, there are many exceptions to learning how to write, more than I can count.

There is a huge difference between knowing why you write terribly and the fact that you write terribly. Writing classes can and will explain this with a fair bit of background as to why. However, creative writing classes are quite biased in their teachings due to personal preference.

The problem is that imo it's near impossible to grow without at least occasional input and that will always include preference. In personal experience less reflected the less experienced the person themself.
My rule of thumb is that you're allowed to break any rule so long as you understand why it was put in place. Before that you might be better off following it.