Way back in March 2013, author and EW correspondent Dana Schwartz started the parody twitter account, Guy In Your MFA. Since then, she’s been cranking out hilarious tweets that perfectly resemble that one guy that everyone knows. We all know someone who is just “two re-writes away from finishing the great American novel.” Here are some of the best tweets to date.
Tinder bio: I have received several promising rejection letters from VERY prominent literary journals.
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) June 13, 2018
The narrator of this short story is actually the concept of Time itself
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) June 2, 2018
story idea: a man visits a prostitute. a week later, she dies and it’s very hard for the man to deal with
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) December 8, 2017
Like Ernest Hemingway, I have to drink heavily because I’m so smart and good at writing.
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) October 26, 2017
Oh you need to borrow a pen? sorry, all of mine are very specific. I have to buy them special.
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) October 23, 2017
Yes, my final paper is handwritten. Is that a problem, professor? It just makes me feel more connected to the words.
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) September 28, 2017
Yeah, my mattress is on the floor. I guess I’m just too busy writing on scraps of paper and quoting proust to care about things like beds.
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) February 20, 2017
I met George Saunders at a reading and told him the plot of the novel I’m working on and he said it sounded “very interesting”
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) February 24, 2017
Girls writing about themselves are a dime a dozen. Try being unique like me, a white 24 year old guy writing about life in New York City
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) March 1, 2017
Drafting my tinder profile:
“Foster wallace, Joyce, whiskey, kierkegaard. Let’s spend long nights discussing philosophy and literature.”— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) April 18, 2017
Please let me explain to you why you’re wrong about Dunkirk. Yes, I know you liked it, but you didn’t like it CORRECTLY
— Guy In Your MFA (@GuyInYourMFA) August 1, 2017
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