Time for a creativity check.
1. I go to Milton Keynes for an OU new tutor briefing, and meet up with 2 old friends from my MA. We find that just about everyone in our group has finished the novel they started during the course: it has taken all of us 3 years to get to the end of the first draft, and our bottom drawers are bulging. One brave soul is drafting letters to agents. The others are thinking mmmm, maybe time to start another one and learn from our mistakes.
2. I dream last night that I have sent out my novel, and it comes back (read!) but with the criticism that there isn't enough of a narrative thread. My dream is right. I start reading the Book Thief and think how he has linked the disparate sections: maybe I can knit mine together closer and strengthen it.
3. The new OU course is all about making our fiction more dramatic - I am looking forward to learning through teaching.
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