Creative writing courses

       In The Independent Alice Jones and Nick Clark report that Creative writing courses are a waste of time, says Hanif Kureishi (who teaches one).
       So, for example, Kureishi acknowledges:

A lot of my students just can't tell a story. They can write sentences but they don't know how to make a story go from there all the way through to the end without people dying of boredom in between. It's a difficult thing to do and it's a great skill to have. Can you teach that ? I don't think you can.

       Nice to see him being so forthright -- but I imagine few will be dissuaded.