My creative writing university course is going well, and I finished unit one of the second year in the summer of 2022. I want to share the process of how I completed it, as well as the pathways I chose for my second year. As I am one of the first students going through the second year of the course with the Open College of the Arts, I thought others would want to know what it is like. Creative Writing University Course: my chosen pathways We had applied for me to start my course in September, only to find it Read More
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Why I Found Scriptwriting Difficult
While I was completing my first year at the Open College of the Arts, I had to choose two elective units; and one of these was scriptwriting. I enjoyed the other unit I completed, which was writing the first five chapters of a novel. However, I found Scriptwriting particularly difficult. I appreciated a couple of aspects of the course, but I found it more challenging than the other two units I completed for the first year. In September 2021, while I was completing my final assignment for Scriptwriting, the entire Creative Writing course changed. So, I will review the unit that I finished. Scriptwriting with the Open Read More
Creative Writing for Beginners: Completing the first unit with the Open College of the Arts
Creative writing for beginners can be tricky. Some don’t know where to start, and I want to help budding writers make a decision. Now that I have completed the first unit for my Creative Writing course with the Open College of the Arts, I decided to explain my journey with the university. I enjoyed most of it, and I will use this post to cover both the parts I struggled with and the parts I enjoyed. Creative Writing for Beginners: the first unit with the Open College of the Arts The first unit of the Creative Writing course is called Read More
A-levels Reflection
After completing my A-levels, as well as the exams, relief floods over me when I realise that I have come to an end and finished my time at sixth form. I do have some fond memories of the school I attended, but my A-level years felt stressful. I was under a lot of pressure to do what I felt was more than I could achieve. However, I will reflect on each of the three A-levels I decided to take when I joined in Year 12 as to whether I would recommend the course or not. Not all A-levels are the Read More
Autism Revision Strategies
Autism Revision Strategies These are the autism revision strategies that I have found useful during my exam periods. As we come up to the exam period once again, many teenagers will worry about revision. For autistic people, this could mean either working so hard that they don’t have enough downtime, or they have so much downtime that they don’t revise as much as they should. I fall into the latter- which isn’t so good with exams in a few weeks. Not revising makes me feel stressed as I feel that I have not done as much revision as I should Read More