Twenty-eight professors are writing books on "Creating Writing in cCollege cCourses." I know that, because I have written answers to twenty-eight men, and with the twenty-eighth, I made a resolution that I would answer no more letters on that subject. You are twenty-nine, and you come too late.

I think it is sheer nonsense to attempt to teach "Creative Writing" in colleges. If the college students were taught to write good, sound English sentences (sentences with unmistakable articulation) and to avoid hackneyed platitudinous, woman's-club expressions, such as: "colorful", "the desire to create", "worth while books", "a writer universally acclaimed" - all those smug expressions that which really mean nothing at all - then creative writing would take care of itself. Nothing whatever should be done to stimulate literary activity in America! its quality will never be improved by stimulation. I do wish the colleges taught people to write passably clear and correct English, however. More than half of the twenty-eight professors who have written to me within the last few months were quite unable to use "which" and "that" and "would" and "should" correctly - at least, they did not honor me by using them correctly in their letters of request. They made many other errors of the same sort, which a well-trained high school student avoids.