Progressssss!

I’m itching to get on with Chapter Seven! Chapter six is done, slightly more enjoyable to write than chapter five but not a great deal, and I don’t even know why I’m so desperate to start on chapter seven. Nothing particularly exciting is supposed to happen in it (although my characters do have this funny way of surprising me sometimes, and taking the story in a completely different direction to how it was meant to go), but it’s like – I’m really enjoying actually making progress on it. Too many times I’ve got so far through something and then given up, and I’m determined not to do that this time.

The fact that it’s half term is helping a lot – and the fact that I only had a teensy bit of homework (as far as I know, I wasn’t even in English the last two days so I could have a mountain of it and not even know about it), and I’ve done all that, so I can just focus on writing and having a social life, which is nice. I can’t wait for the summer holidays – no homework to do and no college to go back to afterwards – just the terrifying prospect of *gulp* results day and *bigger gulp* (possibly) university!

I suppose I’ll have more to talk about on the writing side of this blog when I start university, considering it’s now English and Creative Writing or Journalism I’m going for. Why I didn’t pick them in the first place, I don’t know – I’ve always loved writing and journalism, and I’m pretty good at English – but I got caught up in “ooh I like acting and singing, LET’S DO DRAMA!”, before realizing I wanted to be a midwife, and then it took me getting ill to realize that at the moment, I really should just stick to what I know I can do, and do writing. Where it’ll take me, I don’t know, but I’m hoping to enjoy the adventure.

I only just realized today that I haven’t actually finished chapter one yet, so that’s my mission before I’m allowed to start on this strangely alluring chapter seven, which I really have no obvious plan for, so it could end up spiraling madly out of control. Maybe that’s why I’m so excited about writing it – I’m eager to see where my mind takes me when it doesn’t have a plan to stick to. Of course, it could go horribly wrong… but fingers crossed it won’t!

*happy dances*

I’m one step closer towards going to university, YAY!

I’ve had a reply off Glyndwr University, in Wrexham – they’re still accepting applications for English & Creative Writing, and they’ll hopefully be available in UCAS Clearing. If I was able to get in to do that course there, I’d be thrilled! I’ve visited Glyndwr and I love everything about it – it’s a fairly small university, but it’s Welsh, and I really do want to stay in Wales if at all possible, it seems to have a lovely community feel to it, the accommodation I want to be in looks AMAZING, I haven’t met the teachers for the course I want to do but for the one I went to see at the open day, they’re lovely. Everyone was very helpful, it’s a lovely campus, only a couple of hours away from home by bus and I’m really happy.

I won’t be devastated if I don’t get in there – there’s also Bangor, Aberystwyth and a few outside of Wales that I’m interested in (after seeing pictures and details of the accommodation at Edge Hill, I did say that no matter where I go, I’m going to stay at Edge Hill and commute, but I’m not sure how great commuting from Ormskirk to Bangor would be every day – especially when that’d be about three hours and I only live an hour from Bangor, for goodness’ sake! Plus, I’m pretty sure there’s rules against it – oh well. But Edge Hill is on my list to apply for, so there’s still a chance!

I’m glad that I can finally post a happier post on the university front – one that isn’t either completely bad or good but slightly tinged with sadness. I’m happy, and I think I can relax a bit more, until UCAS Extra starts on the 24th February – when I will start bricking myself again! 😛

I don’t want to jinx it, but…

…. I might just be making plans that I actually feel quite confident about!

Well, I say confident – I don’t want to build myself up, only to be let down horribly when they don’t work out, BUT I’m a step closer and I’m actually making plans. The midwifery is going on hold until I feel better and I feel more confident about being able to deal with the long hours and everything. I know I want to be a midwife, but that might be on hold now until I’m older and maybe have more life experience.

So for now, I’m looking at my other interests – creative writing and journalism. I’ve made a list of the universities I’d consider going to, which offer the courses I want to do – either English and Creative Writing, just Creative Writing or Journalism. I think e=the opportunities after that sort of course are as good as they are for most jobs at the moment – not amazing – but I think if I do a degree I’ll enjoy, I’ll worry about jobs in three years time.

Next job – to look at accommodation and stuffs, and then after that, to hope that they have vacancies in Extra/Clearing!