My cousin who lives over there is suggesting it, and saying he can help me, and support an application for citizenship if I want. Sides, for various reasons, reasons I don't really want to go in to, I'm beginning to think living in England for the rest of my life just isn't what I want. Basically, the more time goes by the more I just get tired of England. It'll be either a move to Australia, with the help of my cousin, or Scotland preferably. The US is also a place I've thought about, but I'm still not sure. And I hope you are enjoying Suffolk man.
Well, at least if I read in the news about a nutter stalking the Suffolk countryside dressed as a giant bat, I'll know who it is.
It's Suffolk, how can you tell the difference between nutters dressed as a bat? Suffolk has been decent. Nice to be away from work for a few days. Plenty of reading thus far (400 pages of Endymion), some tennis, and some secondhand book hunting. Cheers, guys Lemex, I know what you mean. There are days when I'm sick of the UK and would do anything to get away. At least you may have the chance. If you want to go and make a new life, do it. No sense in hanging back and having regrets.
I'm finding it incredibly difficult dedicating time to all the different aspects of my life ... writing, university, work, and my family. Something is going to have to give and I'm afraid my writing is going to be the one to go.
That's what I did. My fiction writing anyway. I rarely talked to my family during the whole time and worked on university papers when I was not at work or out with friends. I still considered it writing, but a different kind of writing.
I didn't try to resurrect my writing hobby until I was essentially done with college. I was working days and studying nights and weekends, and still had the rest of Life to deal with. But I took advantage of the momentum I had picked up writing papers for college to carry over into creative writing when my school load dropped. I did still have a couple classes to schedule and wrap up to get my degree, but the heavy lifting was done.
I never actually gave up writing whilst at university, but I certainly had periods when I put it to one side -- usually when I had an essay due or an exam coming up.
thank you guys ... it makes me feel much better knowing that I'm not the only person unable to cope with it all
Yeah. I still wrote the odd short story and such while at uni, but I focused on the work. Like I said, it's still writing, only a different kind of writing.
I found, also, when I was writing the least I was reading the most. It's all different sides of the same coin.
I was lucky because I studied Creative Writing at university so I got to write and read as much as I liked. I didn't really have to sacrifice anything, other than writing pieces I didn't particularly want to. I think you've just got to prioritise. Your degree stays with you for the rest of your life so you don't want to mess it up by not giving the assignments enough time for you to work on them. You are still writing, just not what you want to write. Just try and keep it balanced and maybe focus on doing your own writing in just the holidays? On a different note, it's just dawned on me that my job interview (which I found out about a couple of weeks ago or something, I can't remember) is next Friday. When I first got the invite, I was like 'woo!' but it was ages away so I kinda forgot about it. Now I'm slightly panicking because I really want the job!
What's the job, Eunoia? I've been shortlisted for a job interview, and have to put together a sample briefing note on one of a couple of subjects by Friday. If that goes well, I might get the interview. It's pissing me off just how many different hoops I have to jump through in order to get a bloody job.
I'm so glad I'm taking a year out before returning to university after reading this! With a PGCE under my belt finding a job should be easier.
Yeah, I hear you. Essentially the plan is: apply for GGCE, do that, then teach abroad, and if all goes well return to University again to do a Masters/PhD, and become a university lecturer. That's what I'd love to do anyway.
Library assistant. (Have a feeling I mentioned it on here before...) Good luck for the interview. And I know. I haven't been seriously job hunting for that long, to be fair, but it's really frustrating all the same. Good plan. Teaching seems a good career route but I don't think it's for me. I did consider TEFL but nah, it was only the travel that attracted me. Maybe if I get desperate I'll reconsider aha.
It is now official! I have a volunteer job at a library starting August 13th, where I'll be working from 9 to 4! So excited!
I couldn't stand the thought of teaching! Well, maybe I could teach creative writing...But urgh, the thought... I thought I wanted to work in publishing (you know, providing I don't become a millionaire author overnight) but do I really want to polish up some lucky person's manuscript for a living? Knowing that secretly I wanted that to be me? To be honest, no! Square one.
^ There are lots of different aspects/departments in publishing, have you considered other areas? What you should do is get an admin kind of job in a publishing house and then just casually drop your novel manuscript on someone's desk. It's what one of my university tutors did and now she's got three published books aha.
I aim to be a university lecturer. That's ultimate goal anyway. And I will need experience teaching, and money, before I feel comfortable with doing a Masters/PhD. If that doesn't work at least I'll still have a job.
Another soggy day in ny! It's been a while since I checked in here, but been busy with editing and querying and such, you all know, you are writers after all. Man, the market is tough, no bites thus far. So, how is everyone, what's the good word?
