One of my early majors was English, and it was basically concealed history with the despairing reminder of no potentiality for financial income. Do something else; if you are a writer, you will never survive in this life without an inclination to write, which is founded on an incessant itch that will constantly bring to your consiousness a desire to, quite simply, create. I advise keeping a journal and changing to a major that can help with your writing, such as psychology or history, but also offers a good thing to "fall back" on during those possible droughts (Kafka went months and even years without putting anything creative during the otherwise fruitful moments of his life) that will keep you from financial security. I'm currently a psychology major and a philosophy minor, and am considering adding a journalism minor, or entirely superseding the philosophy minor for a journalism major. The catch with psychology is that you have to stay until masters level (whether you will do counselling, which isn't directly related with psychology, or hit up a general clinical degree that you can work on towards a PhD, though if you stop at a masters you'll still make a worthy income); but the ultimate plus with such a major is that it's so freaking interesting that you'll forget how long you have to go. Creative people generally are good at psychic observation (name me a good author that doesn't have insight into humanity) anyways.
Or maybe try some journalism courses; this is generally the most expedient and quickest route to writing full-time, and thus having a sort of aesthetic rebound in being more able to create given the technical demands that a journalism major may press you towards. But not all people can tolerate technical writing.
Whatever the case, I consider a writing major a way of sharpening your skills that could easily be done in your spare time, whether through steady self-application of writing (the journal is ideal), or the occassional fits of poetic passion when you write considerable amounts of prose. The writing major is a way of stealing your money, and the English major really is fundamentally the same, though it hides a nastier punch in being essentially a history major with not enough emphasis on the stories themselves (some classes read up to 16-20 novels a semester) -- and you need to soak your mind in the great authors.
My advice: take some courses in psychology and perhaps journalism, or something else that could give you a decent income and help your writing somehow, keep a journal, find a historical author whose methods of writing can be of inspiration to you (something hardcore, like Kafka, Dostoyevksy, Steinbeck, etc.), and use your fits of creative writing in an authentic setting, rather than being forced to press it out every week in four different writing classes and therefore possibly come to hate what was your first love. Now, I don't advise against taking classes in writing -- the very greatest class I have yet taken in college involved nothing more than reading great literature and academia and writing on it; my writing has quadrupled since then, in both fiction and non-fiction realms, and I can never come to fully realize how much it has impacted me even on an extra-literary level (i.e. philosophically, psychologically).
When you look at history, how many great writers have actually gone through with literature majors? Aside from those who didn't go to school whatsoever or quit early (Dickens, Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Shakespeare), not many at all. Aside from Vladimir Nabokov, I can't think of any.
Why am I so overly-meticulous and assiduous in giving my opinion? I've been down the road of poor majors now buried, and I find that English majors are good for those who have enough fantastic resolution to stick to it until PhD level, or those who are planning on teaching. If you want to write, feed your writing with knowledge about things relevant to writing; don't outdo yourself with forced writing, and the constant reminder that if you fail at this, there isn't much to do (this really can affect your writing, at a psychological level at least). I hope I'm not sounding too intense; if you feel convicted of an english major after all of this horrendous rambling, there's nothing wrong with giving it a try. But good literature, so far as I see it, is meant to remain at the freedom of man; not something forced.
When I started reading your post I thought of journalism, there is such an open forum...you should do a search for Christian journalism, very few have aspired to that level. 
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