Monday 12 October 2009

A Month Later!

Here I am. A month later and nothing written. I'm not sure what to post, to be honest, as I intended to post my OU work here, but we've been advised not to. Oh well! Here's the latest news.
The course started on Saturday, and for some strange reason we had our first tutorial that day too. It was good to meet everyone. I think we're going to have a really active group. Ten turned up, one poor soul gave up as she couldn't find us, and there were two apologies. That means only five that haven't made any contact yet. We're hoping to have informal meetings too, if we can agree on a time and place. Everyone seems really busy. I feel guilty that I've retired and have no responsibilities, but John pointed out that I have had my share of being busy in the past. I got the OU Reading Diploma when I was teaching full time and had two kids.

STUDY
I completed Chapter One when I first got the material, so have just revised that today, and started on Chapter Two. We have to take a letter, which may have unpromising material in it, and look for ideas for contrast and conflict. Then we must list the potential for writing that it has.
I've picked up a letter from my mother to my father, written in 1946. I have (literally) hundreds of their letters, cos whenever they were apart (war etc) they wrote daily. I don't know what the letter contains. I'll let you know. Anyway. Off to work on it now! Bye.

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