The Collector by John Fowles has cropped up a few times in the current Facebook ‘list 10 books that have stuck in your mind’ thing, so I thought I’d post the essay I wrote on it for the Crossing Genre Boundaries module in the second year at university. *Just* missed gettingContinue Reading
The OU’s Advanced Creative Writing (A363) course ended in May. Or was it June? I can’t remember. Either way, I couldn’t wait for it to end. You may have mistaken the lack of any A363 entries on this blog being down to me being thoroughly engrossed in the course andContinue Reading
TMA5 was sent off yesterday. As usual, I left it until a week before the deadline to even start it. Then panicked and asked for an extension. So, it’s ‘just’ the ECA left now then. Eek. Double-eek as I haven’t even started it yet but I have an idea thatContinue Reading
The results for TMA3 are in. Oh dear. Ok, so it was poetry. And I’ve never really read any poetry, let alone try to write any. But I liked my poems. My tutor obviously didn’t, even if she did say they contained ‘energy’, ‘humour’ and a ‘unique perspective’. My marksContinue Reading
TMA 02 is looming. I have an extension until 11 January due to reasons of moving house and going on holiday but I’ve only just now picked up the BRB for the first time in about two weeks. I’ve caught up insofar as I’ve done all the reading. I haven’tContinue Reading
I’m a bit behind in the course. I should be starting Chapter 7 (point of view: trying on voices) today, but I only finished Chapter 5 (character creation) yesterday and started on Chapter 6 (setting) yesterday evening. Oops. As part of character creation week, we were supposed to develop theContinue Reading
No, it’s not the sound of me busily typing away. It’s the sound of my fingers drumming on my desk, while I wait (im)patiently for the return of my TMA. I know it’s not even been a week since I sent it off, but others have had theirs returned andContinue Reading
Eek, I’ve just sent my TMA. I worked quite hard on it. Well, a lot harder than I did for my TMAs for A174 (Start Writing Fiction), so I’m hoping this will be reflected in the marks. The freewrite can’t be wrong (if I understand properly what a freewrite is,Continue Reading
The first TMA is due on Friday and for the first part, we had to write a 200-300 word freewrite. I’ve done that, and now I need to do the second part: Write a 750 story or autobiography based on the freewrite. My freewrite ended up mentioning a friend’s weddingContinue Reading