Writing Correspondence Courses are not advertised as much as they used to be. But they're still out there, making claims to transform you into a writer by the end of the course.
Having written two novels blind,without having known a thing about writing, I decided maybe one of these courses was for me. So I sent off my money about £500 or so, and waited for it to happen.
Within a couple of weeks I got the course in the post. There was certainly a lot of writing matter included, and I was assigned a tutor to send my work to. Pretty straightforward really, and I have to say, some of the modules were helpful, and teach me a few things. The tutor too was very encouraging, although I have a feeling he would have told me gibberish was good. Still I carried on and finished the course, but like many others it didn't result in me becoming a writer.
In the meantime I started on a third novel. I got an idea about a woman who had a child on her own and was deserted my the father. She then had to bring the child by herself, and it's the story of how she copes with this, and her relationship with her little boy over time, until he is grown up. Seemed a decent story to me, and i put elements of horror, loss, murder in it to spruce it up. Another long book, taking about two years, also ending up typed but never edited or checked over. Still I was only writing for myself.
Having written two novels blind,without having known a thing about writing, I decided maybe one of these courses was for me. So I sent off my money about £500 or so, and waited for it to happen.
Within a couple of weeks I got the course in the post. There was certainly a lot of writing matter included, and I was assigned a tutor to send my work to. Pretty straightforward really, and I have to say, some of the modules were helpful, and teach me a few things. The tutor too was very encouraging, although I have a feeling he would have told me gibberish was good. Still I carried on and finished the course, but like many others it didn't result in me becoming a writer.
In the meantime I started on a third novel. I got an idea about a woman who had a child on her own and was deserted my the father. She then had to bring the child by herself, and it's the story of how she copes with this, and her relationship with her little boy over time, until he is grown up. Seemed a decent story to me, and i put elements of horror, loss, murder in it to spruce it up. Another long book, taking about two years, also ending up typed but never edited or checked over. Still I was only writing for myself.