The start date for the OU A215 Creative Writing course is almost here. This week I have been allocated a Tutor and been informed that the first tutorial would be in Bristol on the 4th October only one week after the official starting date. I found this a little surprising but am pleased to find [...]
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Almost There.
Posted in A215, Creative writing, tagged A 125, Creative writing, OU, OU A125, Personal, Writing on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A215 Draws closer.
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Personal on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Another month is slipping away and my studies are as disorganised as ever. However a look at the OU A215 Conference last week alerted me to the fact that the course materials are now available on line in PDF form so I have downloaded them and started to have a look.
Having looked at [...]
Not Enough Time!
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Poetry, tagged A215, Add new tag, Creative writing, Writing on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Progress is still being made both with prose and poetry. It has been surprise to find that I am enjoying writing poetry much more than I thought I would, though I still struggle to understand free verse sometimes. I think I feel more secure where there are strict rules to follow.
Daniel Walters has become my [...]
Finding My Voice.
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Personal, Poetry, tagged A215, Creative writing, Personal, Poetry, Writing on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is blogging a form creative writing? It certainly seems an addictive type of writing and one that I am getting hooked on. This week I have spent quite a bit of enjoyable time creating a blog site for my business. The results of which, I am very pleased with.
Sometimes I think that these posts [...]
Do writers need a split personality?
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Personal, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged A215, Creative writing, Fiction, Fiction Blog, OU Study, Writers Bureau, Writing on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week has been more productive, ideas seem easier to find, but as always even this provides problems. Another part of “The Adventures of Daniel Walters” has been posted and another almost finished. This is something I am really enjoying and so far, as I write one post, ideas for the next seem to form [...]
Disorganised progress.
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Personal, tagged A215, Creative writing, Fiction, Fiction Blog, Open University, Personal, Poetry, Writing on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why is it that the best laid plans seem the hardest to follow? It’s not that I have not been writing, far from it, but I always seem to be going off at a tangent, new ideas enter my head, or old ones resurface and suddenly seem more attractive than the work I have set [...]
Another step forward
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Personal, Poetry, Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is turning into a good week as regards writing, Steven Fry is beginning to make sense and I have even managed to write not one, but two poems of my own. I say poems, but who am I to judge? I am sure in weeks to come I will cringe when I re-read them, [...]
Progress report.
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Personal, Poetry, Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK here we go! my first blog, at the moment I am on a very steep learning curve where blogging is concerned but slowly I am figuring it out.
Having finished the OU’s Begin Fiction Writing course my thoughts now have turned towards September and the start of A215 Creative Writing. This contains a poetry element, [...]
Hello world!
Posted in A215, Creative writing, Personal, tagged A215, Creative writing, OU Study, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing fiction on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to my world, the world of a would be writer, starting out on a journey of discovery, searching to find some deeply hidden talent for this ancient art of writing.
After years of neglect my writing skills are, to say the least, rusty but I am taking the first steps to rectify this problem. Having started a course [...]
