5 AS - too much?

First time posting on here, but here we go... Okay, so next year (providing results day goes well and I'm not sitting in a corner crying still) I will be doing English lit, History, Creative Writing, Latin, and G&P as a fifth (may drop it, will see how it goes). So, to anyone with experience, do you think the workload is going to be insane, or is doing 5 AS manageable? Cheers guys.

Creative writing is not a respected A-level, and it is pointless doing it when you're already going to take English lit, history and politics. Stick with 4 and cut the creative writing which you don't need and will be a waste of your time.

I found it to be a fun extra; it's not worth doing as one of your four main subjects, but if you enjoy English and writing generally then it will feel more like a fun hobby. Granted, unis won't care about it, but it won't do any harm having it as an additional subject.

It will harm you if you spend time on it and take your focus away from the main subjects to work for it. People interested in creative writing should write creatively in their own time, without having to invest revision time into it. A hobby should be a hobby; in any A-level there are lots of hoops to jump through and I don't see much point in doing this when you don't need to. Well done if you managed it though and it didn't lower your other grades, but it will for a lot of other people

Thanks for the replies - I did a hell of a lot of work for GCSEs (I left my house blyproba less than 10 times other than to go to school -_- ) but that was only to secure (hopefully) the best grades possible in subjects like Maths - going from pretty much a U to an A* in past papers showed that it sort of paid off. English, History and Latin were fine on the revision front (well I think they were!).
Which universities don't think much of CW? Admittedly it's in Cambridge's 'B' list (so is G&P), but speaking to someone from Oxford's English faculty the other day, they didn't seem to have a problem with it at all. It is something I'd be doing anyway, so the chance to do it and get a qualification in it is exciting.
At present I'm planning on taking English, History, Latin, and Creative Writing to A2.

It is significant that no explanation for these choices has been forthcoming. This is how young people these days advance themselves. They are not interest in any kind of dialogue.

Sorry - thought the 'why' was rhetorical, as in why would anyone want to put themselves through those subjects haha (have had that response from people doing sciencey stuff).

Those subjects are what I've chosen as they are my strengths, I genuinely enjoy them (even the revision to a certain extent), and I hope to go on to do either English or English and History at university.

I did 5 AS levels - Biology, Economics, English Lit, Government & Politics, and Psychology. I got 3 very strong As, 1 B and 1 C, but I completely regretted it. I guess if you do really well in all 5 subjects it will be a credit to you, but I felt that the C grade kind of marred my academic record, so I saw it as pointless. Also, my workload was a lot bigger than my friends' and I only had one free period a week, so for me personally, it was not worth taking 5 AS levels. That said, I know people who took 5 and aced them all, so there's no harm in trying, and dropping one subject if the work becomes too much.

Cheers for the reply. I'm willing to try it - I wasn't originally planning on taking 5, but due to how my timetable's worked out, I have a whole free block of lessons, so might be worth giving it a go. Can always back out if it gets too much!