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The Two-Finger Novelist: August 2012
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Friday, 10 August 2012. A363 end-of-course feedback (Or, "Mr Angry Goes to Town"). Today I took advantage of the opportunity to give feedback on A363, using an online questionnaire. Highlights from my responses are below. Apologies for typos, etc. I was "typing angry", lol. Forgot to record question number - was to do with what I'd like to have seen I think.]. Sadly, the threatened letters to a Pro Vice-Chancellor and national newspaper were never written. Once again, the OU got away with very shoddy...
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The Two-Finger Novelist: April 2013
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Sunday, 7 April 2013. I had some fan mail today. :-D. OH Gregg with your shiny head. Yes sure your belly is fully fed. But your soul is wanting of meaning. To call yourself a writer is demeaning. No skill or talent is at your depose. All it is , is letters in rows. A stranger to imaginations true art. You cannot write when you have no heart. Talent is not learned or earned. And when it comes to you it is not concerned. They remembered his head. No words of worth read. Nothing noone had ever said. I’...
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The Two-Finger Novelist: April 2012
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Sunday, 15 April 2012. Task 1: Write a 1500-word piece of fiction or life writing, or. 2-7 poems totalling 80-100 lines. Task 2: Write a 750-word "commentary" about the process, reflecting on form, structure, and style. Mark: About 86% overall. Actual mark is temporarily unavailable on a dead hard drive! I have no idea why the line spacing changes part of the way through the commentary after being pasted into Blogger! Option 1 – prose. Genre: Fiction. Title: The Three Prisoners. Available from Amazon here.
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The Two-Finger Novelist: January 2012
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Thursday, 5 January 2012. Task 1: Write an 15-minute adaptation of the story written for TMA 01 for stage, radio, or film. Task 2: Write a 500-word "commentary" about the process, describing how the task was approached, what changes to the story and characters proved necessary, etc. Mark: About 87% overall. Actual mark is temporarily unavailable on a dead hard drive, but I remember that it was 1% /- from TMA 01 mark. But apologies are offered in advance if any layout weirdness has crept in. Johanna looks...
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The Two-Finger Novelist: November 2009
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Monday, 30 November 2009. Task 1: Focused freewrite, of 200-300 words, based on one of a search, learning to swim, a scrapyard, hearing a piano, a bunch of keys. Task 2: Proceeding from that prompt, write 750 words of fiction, autobiography, or biography. Task 3: Write a 300-word "commentary" about the techniques used. Actual mark temporarily unavailable on a dead hard drive.). 1 Focused freewrite based on the prompt “learning to swim.”. 2 A passage of autobiography. Title: Trusting a man with a beard.
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The Two-Finger Novelist: December 2013
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Monday, 9 December 2013. The hypocrisy of the long-distance procrastinator. And how very flattering to be asked at all, regardless of the cause. What, me? Gob off about how I think it should and should not be done? Hmm, yes, I suppose it's not so very out of character after all. For a while I was completely stuck for ideas on how to do the session. I've decided to prepare about fifteen topic sheets, each with a brief intro to the topic, an example or two (if appropriate), and a (fun! Every character shou...
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The Two-Finger Novelist: February 2010
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Thursday, 4 February 2010. Task 1: 2,200-word story. (Optional prompts: a closed door, walking in the rain, it's your turn., a wager, all in one day. Task 2: Write a 500-word commentary, describing aims, decisions, difficulties, and solutions. Actual mark temporarily unavailable on a dead hard drive.). 1 A short story. Title: Even the Weariest River? It’s six-o’clock. The clock in the hall begins to chime. Five: Little Eustace Dauger nods. The sixth chime goes unheard by sleeping Eustace Dauger. One: Eus...
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The Two-Finger Novelist: December 2011
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Saturday, 3 December 2011. Task 1: Write a 1500-word story or a poem of 30-36 lines. (Optional prompts: the pool, brief encounter, the waiting room, throwing stones, under ground. Task 2: Write a 350-word "commentary" about the process, describing how genre was chosen, research undertaken, and the editing/revision process. Mark: 87% overall. Separate marks for the tasks are temporarily unavailable on a dead hard drive! Option 1 – prose. Genre: Fiction. Title: YOUR CARRIAGE AWAITS. I smile, inwardly cursi...
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The Two-Finger Novelist: May 2012
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Saturday, 5 May 2012. A363 TMA 06 part 2: Commentary. Why a commentary, but no creative writing? Because I'm continuing the story I developed over TMA 04, TMA 06, and the EMA as my first novel, and I'm being secretive about it! When I look back at this commentary it seems horribly stilted. The trouble was that I had so much to say and only 500 words in which to say it, so it ended up reading like notes on the back of a fag packet. Model to suit historical writing. Protagonist's] call to action is realisa...
