I am enjoying my writing course. Wooooo! The excitment I felt about finally doing something "real" for my career as a writer is still with me. This course I feel is helping already. As it's Monday our assignments are being marked at the moment and module four is up for reading and learning. Two weeks to go!
Throughout the course I have wondered if I should have taken the next level up. I wanted to start at the beginning in case I missed anything important I would need for the next level. I'm fairly confident I could have taken the second one and succeeded even if I was a little behind for some of it.
In the course it touches on a lot of the basics which as I've been writing for four years can seem a little trival. I admit to groaning a few times as the audio began to talk about things like tenses and POV which I already thought I knew much about. Hint, the key word is "thought". Sure the topics seem like baby steps, but really the course delves deeply into each of these seemingly basic things to create a better understanding and more importantly cause myself to ask major questions about my novel.
I'm finding myself wondering whether to write my novel in third person as opposed to first. My plan of action at the moment is to finish this second draft in first person and then if I feel something is missing write my third draft in third person.
I'm finding that whilst doing the course the most beneficial part is the feedback we get on our assignments. The three assignments I have done so far whilst are nothing more than a few paragraphs have given me fantastic insight and a professional look at my writing. I'm a little miffed that this weeks assignment is about another book's structure as instead to my own novel's as the previous weeks were. I feel that since I wasn't so fond of English at school I'm not looking forward to this, but its all for the Greater Good of my writing, meaning it must be worthwhile.
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