What is the best major for someone who wants to eventually become

>>9170765
>What is the best major for someone who wants to eventually become a fiction writer?

Nursing. That way when you fail at writing, you'll have a career instead of debt and a useless degree in who gives a fuck.

>>9170765
Do whatever intrigues you most. As your aspiration doesn't require a degree, there's no wrong option here.

Depends what you want to write about.

Double major in English and something else that has decent job prospects.

I have English degree and have worked a bunch of different jobs, been well off, been poor. Honestly being poor has given me just as much material as having a bunch of disposable income.

>>9170765
>I've heard a lot of bad things about literature/English programs, but I wanted to hear your thoughts. Would philosophy be a better option?

I majored in English and have no qualms, but the quality of any degree in the humanities probably depends highly on the quality of the program you're in.

While I personally thing a lot of English departments have gone to shit (the status quo nowadays seems mostly to be a kind of Bourdieuian reductionism where were culture is nothing but a reflect of a particular social class or social standpoint -- and you see this reflected in a lot of pop criticism where works of art are evaluated as if they were nothing but political and moral propaganda), in my experience I was still exposed to a variety of theoretical and critical approaches, and in the end came out with a much better understanding of the current critical and cultural landscape.

Philosophy is also good (I double majored in both), but I doubt it will be of much use to a fiction writer unless the program has a heavy emphasis of continental philosophy (which is rare for an undergrad program in the Anglo world). Still either way philosophy is good for the noggin, teaches you how to think critically and such.

>>9170765
Philosophy graduate here. A lot of people (myself included) go into philosophy expecting to find answers to some questions or, in your case, some wisdom or "deepness" that you will be able to confer to your writing. The reality is that you will leave the university with many, many more questions than when you entered. Now, I do not regret my major but I definetly entered it with flawed expectatives.

Ultimately, it's up to you. As it has been pointed out, being a writer does not require a degree, so you are ultimately free to pursue your real interests. I would choose translation myself, because languages make you at least semi employable, and translating great works of literature is the best school for writing. However, literary translation is usually a small part of the syllabus of translation degrees. I could also consider History of Art, but one useless degree is just enough for me for now.

But by far, the most important thing you can do is write and read as much as you possibly can.