Hey, so I guess I knew it was going to get a little sporadic, but I'm here again...for however long this lasts this time. Things haven't exactly been going to plan as in, I haven't started doing the research for my final dissertation chapter properly which I had been planning on starting to write this week. BUT I got to see a brilliant movie - The Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling and Dane DeHaan - at the Plymouth Arts Centre's Secret Cinema night on Sunday, along with some excellent artwork by local artists. Grant Wallace, the guy who did my sketch during the Life Drawing class at The Mad Merchant - which he has now turned into a proper painting - was there with his art.
Yesterday was another full day of classes, examining the anatomy of an arts and culture review in Professional Writing and the free form styles of poetry in Contemporary Poetry.
Today was a lot more involved with poetry than I had previously thought it would be, given that I had a Letterpress printing press induction session by the end of which I had a bookmark sized piece of ink printed 'poetry' created by me, my tutor Ben, and two other English students. I think it helped create a new mentality for me: This perfection time bomb will not blow. Just got to fight it back. It was interesting learning how they used to create printed works and the time/effort that goes into it. This was a three hour session, mind, and we only made a bookmark sized set of lines so yeah, a very involved process.
For the afternoon, I had a session discussing the art of book binding, submitting work to publishers, and the work of the smaller presses with Luke Thompson of the Guillemot Press - who I had worked with at the Port Eliot Festival in July last year - which complemented my morning rather nicely.
Rehearsal went okay tonight too - may need to consider investing in some elbow and knee pads because I am going to get so many bruises from tripping and falling all over the place these next few weeks. But I feel more confident about my role, so I'm happy. And now I'm here, cosy in my room because it's exceedingly cold outside - enough to make it snow earlier - having watched Scary Movie 3, a fulfilling cringe-fest of a film.
Tomorrow, I have my meeting with Mandy, my dissertation supervisor, to discuss my second chapter draft - and hope I haven't made any stupid mistakes again - while alternating between pro writing reading and my delayed research for the final chapter.
Wish me luck!
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