I needed a stronger incentive to make me write and to stop me from procrastinating, so my next step was to sign up with The Open University's Course on Creative Writing. And it was terrific. It did everything that it said on the tin, and more!
I found that my original love of writing poetry, gleaned from my time studying English Lit at University, had not been lost and it was a joy to find expression in all kinds of ways, through Haiku, poems, stories, flash fiction... I would often read my favourite poets for inspiration:
The feedback from my tutor and the group meetings was really supportive and by the end of the course I had gained a distinction, written loads of stuff and was well on the way to finishing my first novel. I also had a poem published in a prestigious Scottish magazine and The Scotsman newspaper chose it as their poem of the week.
Success!!
But how to get my novel published ... ?
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