Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Thursday, 15 Jan 2015, 06:34
As I am not currently a student having abandoned L120 Ouverture: Intermediate French I no longer have access to the library. There was a time I'd have been heart broken- I cherish the intellectual indulgence of getting te exact paper I want, when I need it. I'm over at FutureLearn studying Climate Change of all things - and now editing not one, but two novels, which on word count alone come to over 160,000 words. That's a lot of editing to get on with. This side of me has been revived, thanks to the Open University and its creative writing taster on FutureLearn 'Start Writing Fiction.' I didn't so much start as pick up where I left off six years ago. If I can make or find the money I'll be back here legitimately on the 'Creative Writing' course. We'll see. Paying off some debts, fixing a leaky roof and clearing the mortgage are all pressing concerns too.
In three weeks time I'll have been blogging here for FIVE years. It has almost come full circle. Far from moving on I am in many ways back where I started: the archetypal missfit 'frustrated creative.' I'm not an academic, not even a journalist - may writing is forever too wayward. I got grades up from 43 to 92, but never got an average to a distinction - though I recognised in others something they had that I lacked.
A million views became an idiotic goal and driver - they're not even genuine views so much as 'ping backs;' on that score I feel like the autistic kid whose been duped. I'm a sucker for many things.
Has the OU MA been a huge distraction and unaffordable expense? I'm possibly even more unemployable than when I started having fairly abandoned what I was doing in 2008/2009 only now picking up those pieces part time further back than when I started.
All great things come to an end
As I am not currently a student having abandoned L120 Ouverture: Intermediate French I no longer have access to the library. There was a time I'd have been heart broken- I cherish the intellectual indulgence of getting te exact paper I want, when I need it. I'm over at FutureLearn studying Climate Change of all things - and now editing not one, but two novels, which on word count alone come to over 160,000 words. That's a lot of editing to get on with. This side of me has been revived, thanks to the Open University and its creative writing taster on FutureLearn 'Start Writing Fiction.' I didn't so much start as pick up where I left off six years ago. If I can make or find the money I'll be back here legitimately on the 'Creative Writing' course. We'll see. Paying off some debts, fixing a leaky roof and clearing the mortgage are all pressing concerns too.
In three weeks time I'll have been blogging here for FIVE years. It has almost come full circle. Far from moving on I am in many ways back where I started: the archetypal missfit 'frustrated creative.' I'm not an academic, not even a journalist - may writing is forever too wayward. I got grades up from 43 to 92, but never got an average to a distinction - though I recognised in others something they had that I lacked.
A million views became an idiotic goal and driver - they're not even genuine views so much as 'ping backs;' on that score I feel like the autistic kid whose been duped. I'm a sucker for many things.
Has the OU MA been a huge distraction and unaffordable expense? I'm possibly even more unemployable than when I started having fairly abandoned what I was doing in 2008/2009 only now picking up those pieces part time further back than when I started.
On verra.
Adieu.