Ah yes, creative writing courses. I had to take one in university for my degree and we had a section on elements of horror. We read stupid short stories, Dracula, and some other boring shit. Know what I got out of that class? I only realized it after I graduated but my teacher was a hardcore feminist. She’d go on and on ranting and raving about phalic shit and sexualization of women in stories. It was literally even a topic on the final exam.
Biggest waste of money ever, 0/10 would not reccomend. She didn’t know shit about horror as far as I was concerned. I didn’t understand why the girl who sat beside me thought the teacher was a bitch since I never paid attention in that class and slept. Only when I look back on it now do I understand.
Yeah, I am really not of the opinion that a creative writing class is capable of teaching you anything worth while as an author.
I honestly don't think there is any course in existence that can teach a person how to be a proper author. There is one and ONLY one thing that teaches you how to be an author. Experience. You just plain have to write on your own and keep improving.
Others can help give you pointers on the areas you are struggling with, but you won't even know what you are struggling with if you don't start writing in the first place. The best things a beginner who isn't really writing yet can get might be some tips along the lines of how much you have to edit in a proper process, and how important it is to read the work of other authors in order to get an intuition.
Also, Youtube is very much your friend when it comes to getting writing tips. Youtube has taught me more about writing than any literature class ever could.
Writing classes are for teaching you how to do secretarial work. Stuff that is formula based and where what you are going to write is already pre-determined. Maybe they can teach you how to write persuasive essays, but they can only really give you the form and outline for that. You need to work on your argumentation skills independently in order to be really good at persuasive essays.
There is NO CLASS that can teach you how to be a creative writer. None. It is simply not a skill that is possible to teach in a 12 week class. The only way to become a creative writer is to nurture the skill by your own efforts over the course of years.
EDIT: In regards to the original question, I don't think anyone with skills at the level to effectively help you will have the time to dedicate to assisting you if you were to suddenly bother them in DMs. As people here have been saying, stick to the forum writing help section. If someone with skills happens to have the free time, they might happen by and see it.
