It's that time of year, people are beginning to get their grades in, of course it's us University lot that gets them in first, so, how well has everybody done?
Year 1 Creative Writing BA (Hons):
Modules (for the whole year, they were double modules):
Creative Practice: C
Representation: C+
Storytelling: D+
Writer's Reading: B-
I know why I didn't do so well on storytelling, because I wrote way too much on my Norse research and focused less on the storytelling aspects (such as the Skalds, though I did analyse Skaldic and Eddic poetry, however it doesn't show so much the Nordic storytelling culture) Shame, because I put a lot (I mean a lot) or work behind it, especially in creating a scandinavian hybrid language in order to demonstrate some of the storytelling techniques they had, but I realise, it's not just the work that counts, but how you apply it.
Writer's reading, I'm pleased with because I had plenty to write, and the tutor liked my review when it was first draft, so I'm glad it paid off. And I think our tutor Adrian did a great job at adjusting to the class half way through, as the lecturer we had before him (Jerry) was taken into hospital with a condition. (and unfortunately, later died)
Representation was another where I put in a lot of research, we had 3 topics to do, I chose development of writing in Ancient Mesopotamia as my first, representation, thought and language with Wittgenstein and Kant as my second, which I liked what I had for both, though the second topic took a very long time as I had to plough through Kant as he isn't at all easy to read, which meant I had little time to cover topic 3, which probably stopped my grade from being a B.
Creative Practice, given how disorganised our first tutor was for this (before she left) it was difficult to get everything together, but it worked out in the end - I didn't have as much in my portfolio as I hoped though.
"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
