I'm doing an MA in creative writing! The offer has been accepted, my student loan has been approved, so I am now, 100%, officially, starting my MA this September!
I'm going to be doing it part-time, distance learning, with Manchester Metropolitan University (which has an amazing Writing School) and specialising in writing for children and young adults. It was the flexible learning opportunities and the children's focus that drew me to this course and I'm already working my way through the reading list for September, starting with The Hobbit.
I'm really looking forward to learning everything I can on this course, and putting it to work in my rewrite of Fearful (although I'm also planning to start something new for the writing elements of the course).
I'm taking a career break for at least the next two years (due to the high cost of child care) and I'm excited to have a new challenge to focus on while I'm at home.
Other writing news:
I've entered three stories into this year's Wattys and am still updating On Sapphire Wings and Democracy is Dead twice a week.
Last month, I started Fearful all over again and I'm really pleased with how this new take on the story is progressing (higher stakes, more angst for the characters - I'm being really mean to them in this redraft).
I'm also making a few final tweaks to Mirrored Snow, although I can't decide whether to start querying it this summer, or to sit on the manuscript until after my MA.
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