A2: Credentials vs. Instincts: Please Give Us an Extension

What am I doing? Not a Masters (NaM) Unit 1: The Stories I Tell Myself The Assignment Credentials vs. Instincts — Nell Painter enters art school with a PhD in history and is still treated as a beginner. Why does non-fiction and internet expertise fail to transfer legitimacy to my own creative writing? What does “validation” look like? Please Give Us an Extension “Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything–we need only listen. The remedies for repair or reclamation of any lost psychic drive are contained in stories. Stories engender the excitement, sadness, questions, longings, and understandings that spontaneously bring the archetype, in this case Wild Woman, back to the surface. Stories are embedded with instructions which guide us about the complexities of life. Stories enable us to understand the need for and the ways to raise a submerged archetype.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés,…