Happy Holidays

Hello to you all,

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and you are looking forward to the new year celebrations.
My Christmas was great, I got a kindle, some writing and poetry books as well as books for my up coming open university course starting in February. I also got a new printer which was desperately needed!

On the writing side I've not had to much time to study my course but I have written 3 draft poems over Christmas:

1. A horror dream poem (no title yet)
2."Fantasy spill" (May change title when I am more happy with the poem.)
3. "Please Sir, I've been abducted by Aliens"

All three are in the very early stages but it has been a good time for ideas flowing and putting pen to paper, I'm thinking of turning "Fantasy spill" into a short story as well in the new year.


That’s it for now as I will post a happy new year post this week as well, most likely Saturday.
Happy Holidays!

Progress

 Hello to you all,
I hope you have had a great writing week.

For me it has been good, I have written the first draft of a poem - about the loss of someone from childhood who you have trouble remembering - I've started a writers notebook and have five writing ideas to get on with...oh and I've updated my blog, yay!


On the writers Bureau side of things for my creative writing course I have made a small start, I'm hoping by the time I update next week I will have finished studying the first 3 modules and started my first assignment. For my poetry course I have finished module 1 and I'm now starting the first assigment, If  the re drafts of the poem that I started this week come out good I will include that then I just need to hope inspiration strikes again and soon!


Thats about it this week I plan to study and hopefully write a rough draft of at least one of my ideas before I update next Tuesday.


Until then,
Happy writing!

Getting back to it!

Well as you can see from my last entry, I have not been keeping up with my blog...

I have been busy though, I decided to take a degree with the open university so I have been doing a few of the shorter courses to see if it is for me. I have been really enjoying it so I have signed up for the level 1 60 pointer - Arts past and present course. Fingers crossed I will get financial support.

I haven't made any progress with my Writers Bureau course however, which I'm quite sad about but I am going to start again next week, I've put aside 2-3 hours each morning I'm not at work so that should be enough to get me started and hopefully I can get my first assignment off straight after Christmas (I need to wait for my new printer you see)

Other than that I have been catching up with some old forgotten friends from my bookshelf, which is always tremendous fun! As you can see I have also updated my blog page, I wanted it more clear and crisp but still Stimulating, hopefully I have achieved that.

I am going to aim for an update each week on a Tuesday night and see how that goes, but if its to much I may take it down to once a fortnight.
That’s it for news from me, I will be back on Tuesday.

Part-time Victory!

Wow first off thank you so much to my first 5 followers! I really hope you all enjoy reading my blog!

It's been a slow week with the writing I've had a massive cold and spent about 3 days in bed - great start to my writers bureau course right?

However I have had a small victory this week as a little background knowledge I work 40-60 hours a week, that a social life and my two other main hobbies mean I have very little time to do the course, in other words I may have read the first three modules and completed my first assignment by the end of 2050, if I get a move on!

Clearly something has to give as if I do not get up the courage/confidence to start this course now I don't think I ever will, So I have made the decision to go part time with work the only problem was convincing my family this was a good idea, so after plenty of arguments good and bad points on both sides I am allowed to cut my hours providing I can still pay for rent and food.

So now its just a case of telling the boss. I think the courage may have gone again but wish me luck.

And happy writing to you all!

From the beginning.

Hello to all!
I am what my mum calls a dreamer, full of big ideas but never do anything about them mostly due to laziness and lack of confidence. So to cut a long and boring story short I decided at the start of this year, I would prove her wrong (in the nicest possible way) and after a couple of wobbles, tears and fears I finally decided to enrol with the writers bureau and received my course materials this Monday -yay!
Very terrified since this is the first time I have actually ever written anything down normally everything just gets lost in a jumble in my brain, but the small part of the course I have had the time to read - as I came down with a cold this Wednesday (typical!)- says that I should write everyday, WM always talks about things like twitter, word press and blogger so I thought I would give one a try. I plan to update my writing progress here (hopefully 1-2 times a week) so I can look back on it all when I am feeling low or have 50 rejection letters in front of me.
About me:
Incase you want to know about me:
My name is Claire, I live with my mum, her partner and 3 cats, I work in a dead end job I hate that pays the bills and so I'm trying to do something more enjoyable with my life.
My interests include writing, reading, Sims, cooking, learning new things, formula one and dreaming my days away.
I have had two articles published, when I was younger, non-payed but I am hoping to add to this.
If you have any questions, requests or anything else please don't hesitate to post below or contact me, I will be more than happy to reply.
Anyway hopefully I will update here 1-2 a week.
Possibly with good news :)