Christopher Hamilton

Sheesh my ten minutes per day thing didn’t last long did it? In my defence I have been ill, and then very, very busy.

To be honest I’ve no free time to write anything here. I have a deadline for my course looming over me. It’s tomorrow, and I have to travel to London for work tomorrow too. The plan is to finish the essay tonight after I play football. Then I have three weeks left of this course.

The course has help me develop as a writer, not that you see any of that development here on the website. I do have some issues with it though. As we approach the end of the course the word limits for each assignment is still very close to thos at the beginning of the course. Now my preference would be for the work limit to increase a lot more than it has. The latest piece I’ve written feels very hollow to me. There was a lot more I wanted to say but because of the word limit I had to cut it down drastically.

What I really wanted from the course was, at the beginning to look at the word limit for the last assignment and be worried I wouldn’t be able to manage it. As it is, I would really like the limit to be about three times what it currently is. It is the first time the OU have ran this course so I’m sure in the next few years they will improve it. For me though, I just can’t wait to finish it. I enjoyed it up until the last assignment which is where I thought the limit’s shold have been raised.

I really should stop complaining about things that really don’t matter, but it is a shame. Although there is one thing about being so restricted with this course, that is a positive. It makes me really want to write something more substantial. That’s why I’m going to participate in this years NaNoWriMo. I’ve even managed to talk a few friends into it too.

This time I’m not going to promise to post again at the weekend. I’ll post again soon, but I’m not sure when. I’m going to concentrate on getting the final assignment for the course out of the way so i can be done with it. Then there’s the WCOOP. I’m still contemplating trying to qualify for a couple of these events on Stars. Hmmm, we’ll see.