I'd like to go back to school.

[rainechan]

My writing muse abandonned me, a while back.

Actually, I think it was being held hostage.

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[supernonamegirl]

In that context, an hour is a credit and one credit is basically one hour per week during a semester. Most classes will be around 3 credit. So if your Music Theary class is three credits, you'll meet for three hours a week for 15 weeks, and at the end of the course (assuming you pass), you have three credit hours towards your major

[supernonamegirl]

two parts because I hit the character limit

[rainechan]

Music Therapy must be a Bachelor's, then, because it said that it would take 4 years to complete. And yeah, I'm not sure if it's 80 a year, or 80 in 4 years. That wasn't very specific. Granted, when it says that I need 56 hours of major courses, based off of what you explained, that means 56 hours in the 4 years, versus 56 hours in 15 weeks, right

[supernonamegirl]

Maybe I just need to suck it up, hold my muse at gunpoint, and write like the wind to be a published author.
That, really, is the key.

I think people can get too caught up in writing as this difficult, slippery thing, but what sets apart the successful authors is that they don't treat it that way. It is a job, plain and simple. (Related! Since it's a job, you should never pay someone. I think Neil Gaiman said something once like Money should always flow towards the writer, never away. Oh, here it is.Yes, good writing is this mystical magical thing, but the more you write, the more likely it is to happen. Revision helps too, and in order to revise, something needs to exist. Inspiration helps, and muses come and go, but writing comes from people. It's not an external force that you're lucky enough to be visited by, once in awhile. You do it or you don't, and sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad, really, really bad. Treating it as something beyond your control is a both a scapegoat and doesn't give yourself enough credit

[rainechan]

Wow. That's... Wow. I *heart* Neil Gaiman. Thank you for finding that. I should make that my new motto, or something.

But yeah, you're right. There is nothing stopping me from getting bored with Music Therapy somewhere down the line. It might happen, it might not. I would like to write for a living. Live off of my writing. I don't want to be that person who is stuck at a job simply because it pays. I want to enjoy my job, too. Which is why I thought that maybe something music-related would help.

[paranoidpen]

It varies per school. If you sent me a link I would be happy to go over everything with you

[rainechan]

This is where I got all the course information:
http://catalog.emich.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=10&poid=4704

What is a FAFSA?

[paranoidpen]

I'll check it out. And look at community too.

It's a basic application for aid you fill out every spring for the following school year.
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

[herecirm]

Ooh, wow. I can't offer any help as I never went beyond my A-Levels (not sure what your equivalent is...), but this sounds like a super exciting door that's opening for you. It sounds like EXACTLY your kind of job and I think you'd be amazing at it; also, you can write in your spare time and get published without stress. Maybe that was part of your writer's block? Having a publishing deal already must be a lot of pressure. Now you can get back to writing purely for you ... which is, after all, the best way to write.

*hugs* I really hope you find out a way to do this. :)

[paranoidpen]

Okay, I found this community college. Would it be the one you'd be looking at? It's close to the University.
http://www.wccnet.edu/for/future-students/

It looks like starting at a community college would be the best bet.
At the very least you could meet with a counselor now to see where you might be. Sometimes the tests are free.
That way you can see what level you are.
Like I passed high enough that I didn't need to take reading or any math lower than statistics. d^_^b