2016 English Literature with Creative Writing Applicants

Ooooo I love the same genres, but specifically gothic and horror! D

Woo, I finally meet someone who is applying to the same uni! And nope, I haven't heard back from Warwick either. I'm assuming it takes them awhile to narrow down seeing as they are pretty much no.1 for the course. I'm currently creating my portfolio, but cutting down into the page limit is very troubling! Have you started making your portfolio yet? Also, do you know what the interview will be like? D: I'm hoping it will just be questions via email ;-;

Yay! You are the first person I have found as well which is surprising because it is so popular. Hopefully they take a while more narrowing it down because I haven't finished with the portfolio. What is the page limit do you know? I've seen everything between 8-16 pages quoted and I don't know what the actual official line is...
I think the interview is over email like you say, but they give you a set amount of time to answer. Really hope they offer me a place!!!!!

Nice! So are all of your applications for creative writing?

All of them are except for Southampton where I applied for English, they integrate creative writing alot and I really like the course so xD

That's another one of my choices

OOooh yaay! Have you heard back yet? The course at Southampton is so good, you can also make it pretty much 100% coursework too! XD

I know! I was really shocked, hardly anyone! Yupyup, they will take awhile, for my portfolio I'm including one short story and the rest is poetry, but I'm not sure if I should include a flash fiction piece perhaps? What are you including? And I thought it was 9-12 pages! XDDD Oh that's good, interviews in person are nerve wracking! Yess! Same here!! What are your favourite genres? D

So do you prefer writing poetry or fiction? How long is your short story?
Yeah same here I'm going to write some poetry and some short stories - probably about half and half. I think 9-12 is probably right but I wasn't completely sure and couldn't find it on their undergraduate page. Yeah I just had an interview at UCL and I'm still trying to recover
I find it hard to have a favourite of anything - book, film, music genre but at the moment I'm really interested in post-modernism and metafiction, unreliable narrators etc. I love a bit of everything to be honest!
Do you have a favourite book?

Not yet, you? I am certainly very keen on trying to have as high a % coursework as possible!
I'm freaking at the moment because I've had an email from UCAS saying something has changed on my track but nothing has...

Not yet! Seems they take awhile to reply!
Heheh, coursework iz life! XDD
Oh thats weird! O.- Maybe UCAS is laggy or maybe a uni put updated info or something?

I'm gonna call UCAS in the morning if it isn't sorted out -_-

Ooooo. That's a tough one! I enjoy both, however poetry enables me to turn quick ideas/messages into form so I guess I like poetry in that sense, I have a poetry blog which I post any poems or draft poems. BUT fiction is so good and I can really go into detail about the characters and plot, aaaah I don't know ;-;
And my short story is 3 pages, I may extend it to 4 and stretch out the ending, I think it transitions to the end too quickly! XD
I have other short stories I may put in, but out of the ones I like, one of them is too long (about 15 pages) whilst the other doesn't show style. ;-; They won't let you use school work either, so I can't use those short stories either. XDD

I'll most likely just end up with one short story and the rest is poetry. I have tons of poems, so its just picking out the best ones from my blog, but it takes forever to pick T-T asdfghjk.
Ohgod! XDD Interviews are scary ;=;!
Ooo, post mod is good! D
Hmmm. A favourite book, well, it's currently changing, but at the moment it is the strange case of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, Poe's short stories and the kite runner [so shad yo ;-;]
What are your favourite books atm?

I know what you mean about the poetry - I just wish I was better at it. I think I prefer short stories just because I have only just started to experiment with poetry.

Ooooo. That's a tough one! I enjoy both, however poetry enables me to turn quick ideas/messages into form so I guess I like poetry in that sense, I have a poetry blog which I post any poems or draft poems.

I'm the same lol. My poetry skills aren't that fantastic, I'm much more a short story/prose kinda person!



Oooh a poetry blog! I have a blog, but I review books, and only occasionally post any of my own stuff - I'd be too embarrassed to put it all out there!

Yeah I really like the idea of poetry but I just cringe whenever I look back at something I tried to write :'(

Maybe I should think about getting a blog...
Seriously though thats so cool both of you

I know what you mean about the poetry - I just wish I was better at it. I think I prefer short stories just because I have only just started to experiment with poetry.
A blog! That's so cool would you be up for sharing it? or not either way its cool I would totally understand
I think they let you use extracts from short stories so you could just use a few pages from your longer one if you really like it - I think they just want to make sure you can write and have written and then get a small sense of your style? I may be talking rubbish tho haha

I haven't read Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde or the Kiterunner although I've heard of them what do you like about those in particular?I'm reading Lolita at the moment which is mind-blowingly well written and just so delightfully over the top that im really enjoying it but at the same time its probably the most disturbing thing I've ever read which is both good and bad
I've been quite into Ian McEwan recently as well

I think I try too hard when it comes to poetry - I think I can't do it, so I try too much to be better at it and the piece just feels unnatural!

I have heard of Lolita, I need to read it, I'm currently reading Frankenstein XDD
And Ian McEwan? o:
Do you know of the bloody chamber or clockwork orange?

Yeah me too. Its so hard to avoid cliché and find subtlety as well but I spose its all about just having fun haha
the more you do it the more it feels natural and you find your voice I guess (but how long will that takkkkkke???)