Is writing a state of mind? Do you need a room of your own and comfortable means? And be able to spell? And don't editors make all properly published stuff up anyway?
You may neither know about some of these questions, nor care. In which case, move over. Maybe watch this excellent goal by Luke Guttridge. If, on the other hand, you'd like to help and/or offer thoughts, I'm all ears.
I am fortunate enough to have a "medium job" which "provides". This is the road I've taken. I'd like to say I've chosen it, but I've probably just been corporate and pliable enough to have made a good fist of often dithering situations and never had the chutzpah to go off and do something I've really wanted. Or really succeed at anything. And besides, I've always wanted to spend most of my time doing something I've not really wanted to so that I can find time to do bits and pieces I've always wanted to do, thus making these times 'non-work' and thus more enjoyable. Rather a pissed artist than a suffering artist.
If I'd been able to spend more time on my adequate drum playing - recent improved wrist action and sensible patterns have recently turned this into this - I might have actually been slightly more successful at it and played festivals and that. Neither my football nor my modelling career ever got off the ground as I always enjoyed introspection over kicking balls hard, looking my age or putting crap in my hair.
Anyway, I'm drifting. Can anyone recommend a good writing course for fiction writers? I'd like to do a full blown uni course - probably by correspondence - but suspect I need to have a taster try out in the meantime. Arvon retreats look way too posh. Much more inclined towards short regular evening courses so I can test out my feeling that being in a room where people talk about their writing is going to be creepy.
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