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what colleges and major will be good for a writing lover? please help.?

I am a sr in HS and am in love w/ writing, & for years planned on majoring in creative writing until I realized the impracticality in it. Now I am planning on double majoring in English and Speech Communications &Rhetoric, because I feel Communications will give me a better chance of finding a job later on (my biggest fear)? I just don't know what career I want to persue. My dream would be to write for a magazine, but I despise journalism--thus majoring in it would kill me. I hate feeling stifled in writing & hate politics/news. What careers would suit that and how do I go about finding them and interning in them? I also need to find a college with an amazing undergraduate English program, as well as a communications major--if that is even good for me to major in?--so I can persue both. I am thinking going to school around a major city would provide the best job oppurtunities for writing right? I know I want to write, I just don't know where or how...i need guidance..please I forgot to ask if anyone knew some great colleges for me? Preferably around a bigger city?

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1. I was in the same position in HS and went to college for English Education (bc I was told not to go for Creative Writing). I changed my major after my freshman year to Writing with a minor in Communication. My dream was always to write for a magazine and with this major a scored a great internship at a lifestyle magazine!! If I were you, I would avoid majoring in Communication (make it a minor or a second major) because so many people go for it. Majoring in English writing will show employers you have the writing skills and minoring in Comm. will show them you have the design skills. Much like you I hated journalism and with an ENGLISH major you avoid the journalism feel (unlike Comm majors). Trust me... when looking for internships they specifically told me that they prefer english majors over comm. majors. If you need any more advice, feel free to email me. It's a great field and I hope you get to be where you want to be! :) *Stoney Brook in the South Hamptons Emerson in Boston Syrucuse in NY
2. Try a major like mental health...... lots of interesting stuff.... or maybe something in science......
3. going into a major like english/writing is really hard to find a career in unless if you are really really good. but if you love it enough and are good at then i think that you should take a chance. if not you should look into something like education because they do alot of english classes so you could go into education with an emphasis on english.