A Month At Uni — My Thoughts
Excuse the lack of posts the past month — I started my Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing. On top of having to move back to the city and reestablish myself, I haven’t really have had the time to write. However; today I have found myself some spare time and want to give my readers an update.
First, I want to say that I am enjoying the course so much. After COVID and being away from socialising, I really threw myself into it with this course — and have relished in it.
There is just something about being amongst writers again.
At the beginning of the course, I enrolled in every subject, including an Introduction to Editing class. Pretty quickly, I realised I may get an RPL (Regonised Prior Learning) for this class. This would come from my units. I did as part of my Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. I received the RPL, and this has freed some time up during the week, and taken a lighter course load — at least until next semester.
In my diploma course, I had nonfiction units and loved them. During the course we touched on the genre of creative nonfiction, which also goes my the name of narrative nonfiction. This genre uses the elements of fiction to tell true stories. As there were a lot of ways to write nonfiction — we spent little time on creative nonfiction. This was a shame, as it was the…
