Same old...

With today being my first day back at Uni comes the start of the new academic year for me. This year seems like it will be more challenging than the last two, but I have my own goals and addiction for achieving them early on my side. The pieces of work are set to a longer word count, sure, but only by about a thousand words, which is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

At the top of the agenda today was Advanced Fictional Writing. It seemed almost the same as all of the short story/creative modules we'd done in the previous years. Not that I'm complaining of course, refreshing the mind and building on what is already there is key to the skill of writing because anyone can write, it's just knowledge, practice and education that separate the best from the worst (best here indicates quality not best selling).

Second today was a module called creative vigilance, the tutor told us it was scary as hell, and that we probably wouldn't know what was going on until after the mid-point in the module. He did say, however that we'd be pushing a lot of the boundaries of writing as well as our own set writing style. I can see where he's coming from, it's so easy to get stuck in a comfy groove with just about anything.

Other than that Uni is just the same as normal. It seems strange though, most of the people I know had uneventful summers when mine seemed anything but.

The beginning of Autumn also brings the falling of walnuts with it (from the tree in our garden I mean) which I devour whenever I have the patience to do so. The falling of conkers is now also imminent meaning that I must watch where I tread when it hasn't recently rained. And the misty mornings have begun to spring from nowhere. Same old Autumn I guess, same old Uni, same old friends. Everything is normal again, but, since Mark, a happier, higher plain of normal. Not to mention the feeling of belonging somewhere.

Yes, dear readers, mixed in with the old is the brand new and shiny, and it sticks out like a beautiful ruby amongst custard powder.

That's it for now. Laters :)