Less than a month to go before I start my MA

Thus beginning a new chapter in my life.

I've been out of education for six and a half years, when I graduated with third-class honours from my IT BSc - having been jerked about by incompetent tutors; having also had a major depressive episode that cost me a rather crucial year of my life. I frankly think that third was an achievement.

After spending a couple of years alternately faffing about and applying for work I wasn't qualified for, I started writing, and in the last five years or so I've averaged two books a year, some of which I've self-published.

At New Year just gone, I decided to make 2019 my year - the year I turn 30 will be the year I pull out all the stops and make a break for it. I've worked hard on my projects, and also got onto an MA in Creative Writing at the Open University.

I turn 30 in a week and a half. Just under two weeks after that, I start my MA. It's going to be a hard one, I know, but the workload is definitely not beyond me. I'm preparing to start a seventh edit of a new fantasy novel (which will hopefully be the start of a new series), and have ideas brewing for many other things too. I'm also getting back into practising music and may start performing in public again.

2019 is, indeed, looking like my year.

Good luck!

Thank you

Tell us the books you’ve written

Tell us the books you’ve written

Yes, I'm curious to know too.

Happy 30th in advance

Tell us the books you’ve written

It's going to be a great year for you best of luck!

Da Vinci Code.

We are all just pleased for you because you are a published author, and this course will improve your skills even further

Thank you I still feel about 15 though tbh

My main published work to date is a fantasy epic called The Force of the Gods, which is my perversion of the idea of the "otherworld"; it wasn't made my Aslan or Ember or anyone like that, it was made by an angry teeganer who made a pact with a god for power, but he could only make a dead, stagnant world. My main chatacter takes it upon himself to unmake that world, but finds it more complicated than he thought, because he hadn't figured that there would be innocents involved.

I'm also working on an urban fantasy series set around Manchester. I had originally described it as a YA work, but after talking face-to-face to a book doctor/fellow writer about it last weekend have decided it's just a straight-up fantasy - which just happens to open with an eleven-year-old MC.

There's other things, too, like some sf, a bit of a psychological story, and a satire positing Donald Trump as a superhero, which I unpublished because I want to improve it.

Thank you




That's what I'm hoping. It'll also open the door for me for if I'm still interested in teaching in a couple of years.

I lived in Manchester for over a decade. Believe me, it is not the stuff of fantasies!

Thus beginning a new chapter in my life.

I've been out of education for six and a half years, when I graduated with third-class honours from my IT BSc - having been jerked about by incompetent tutors; having also had a major depressive episode that cost me a rather crucial year of my life. I frankly think that third was an achievement.

After spending a couple of years alternately faffing about and applying for work I wasn't qualified for, I started writing, and in the last five years or so I've averaged two books a year, some of which I've self-published.

At New Year just gone, I decided to make 2019 my year - the year I turn 30 will be the year I pull out all the stops and make a break for it. I've worked hard on my projects, and also got onto an MA in Creative Writing at the Open University.

I turn 30 in a week and a half. Just under two weeks after that, I start my MA. It's going to be a hard one, I know, but the workload is definitely not beyond me. I'm preparing to start a seventh edit of a new fantasy novel (which will hopefully be the start of a new series), and have ideas brewing for many other things too. I'm also getting back into practising music and may start performing in public again.

2019 is, indeed, looking like my year.