I'm finished with the OU, honest. I've signed on for this Birkbeck course in novel writing which starts in September and the plan is to spend the next eight or so months trying to find out if I can actually write a novel - a novel that someone else wants to read and, ideally, someone else wants to publish and other people want to buy. So why why why do I keep popping onto the OU course website and keep clicking on the Shakespeare course? And its got an exam and I am hopeless at exams, my school actually drugged me with tranquillisers to get me through my A'levels and I always dropped at least 10 points on my course work on every OU exam I ever took.
Help.
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- riverwillow
- Just so that we are clear, I am not some demented aging earth child running around with flowers in my hair trying to hitch a ride to San Francisco, promise - I just happened to grow up by one of the channels of one of the best chalk rivers in the world and surrounded by willow trees, prosaic I know, but that's me! I am about to try and turn my nanonovel into the real thing.
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Books Read Since 1st January 2009
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
- Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
- The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
- Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
- The Herring Seller's Apprentice by LC Tyler
- The Girl Who Player with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L Sayers
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
- Venetia by Georgette Heyer
- Frances Partridge: The Biography
- A Fool and his Honey by Charlaine Harris
- The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
- A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
- Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
- Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
- The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
- Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver
- 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
- Wasp-Waisted by David Barrie
- The Baader Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
- The Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver
- Savage Summit: The True Stories of the 5 Women Who Climbed K2
- Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre
- Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
- Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers
- The Vanished Man by Jeffrey Deaver
- War Paint by Lindy Woodhead
- The Empty Chair by Jeffrey Deaver
- The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Innocence by Kathleen Tessaro
- The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
- Moondust by Andrew Smith
- The Stone Monkey by Jeffrey Deaver
- Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
- The Flirt by Kathleen Tessaro
- Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
- High Exposure by David Breashears
- Prey by Rachel Vincent
- Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
- Once Upon A Time in England by Helen Walsh
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- Teatime for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lillian Jackson Braun
- The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
- The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver
- Dark Summit by Nick Heil
- Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall
- The Sword of the Spirits by John Christopher
- Beyond the Burning Lands by John Christopher
- The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
- The Prince in Waiting by John Christopher
- The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary by Edmund Gorey
- Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
- Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
- Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
- The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
- Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
- Long Lost by Harlan Coben
- Storyteller by GR Grove
- The Comvenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
- A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- Promise Me by Harlan Coben
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Darkest Fear by Harlan Coben
- Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest by Bear Grylls
- When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson
- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
- The Final Detail by Harlan Coben
- One False Move by Harlan Coben
- Back Spin by Harlan Coben
- Suffer the Children by Adam Creed
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- Fade Away by Harlan Coben
- Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
- The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt
- Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
- Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner
- The Death Zone by Matt Dickinson
- Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
- An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
- In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dororthy L. Sayers
- Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
- The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
- Have His Carcass by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Because It's There by Dudley Green
- Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss
- One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
- And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
- The Bolter by Frances Osbourne
- Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
- The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks by James Anderson
- Jumping the Cracks by Victoria Blake
- A Mortal Curiosity by Ann Granger
- Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End by Lemony Snicket
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
- Pride by Rachel Vincent
- The Mysterious Affair of Style by Gilbert Adair
- The Affair of the Mutilated Mink by James Anderson
- Skin and Blister by Victoria Blake
- A Rare Interest in Corpses by Ann Granger
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- The Act of Roger Mugatroyd by Gilbert Adair
- The Affair of the Bloodstained Tea Cosy by James Anderson
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lillian Jackson Braun
- Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
- The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss
- Rogue by Rachel Vincent
- The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
- Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
- The Shadow in the North by Phillip Pullman
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- Cutting Blades by Victoria Blake
- The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
- A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
- The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket
- Eldorado by Baroness Orczy
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
- I WIll Repay by Baroness Orczy
- Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs
5 comments:
I do know what you mean - I kept in regular contact with the message boards until fairly recently. But after spending a year at Queen's, I find myself being very wistful about the MA crowd I studied/workshopped with and am trying to find ways of sneaking myself back into classes... it's a bit like a button that was pushed and no-one can find how to turn it off! Help!
Best of luck with Birkbeck - I've heard amazing things about it and I know someone who teaches there, but I think it might not be on the CW side, not sure. You're going to love it :)
Shakespeare course? Go on, do it. You know you want to. Mwha ha ha haaa!
barbaras, I know I will love Birkbeck as I've taken a couple of their CW courses in the past and they have always been fun. As for 'cutting the cord' I guess we both need time to move on...
Belle, LOL, a much more restrained comment that I was expecting :o)
Belle - restrained... hee hee hee!
I'll have you know, Ms Babs, I am the epitome of restraint! It was late. I was tired. And the ten page essay comment I was preparing vanished into the ether ... ;)
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