So, I have final submitted my second assignment for this part of the course. I’m not that happy with it as maybe I’m rushing and panicking about this part of the course. I know I’m not a natural born writer – unless its technical or legal for work. I knew that this part of the course would be the most challenging for me and at times I feel like my head is well and truly under the water, trying to cover too many things, running down too many rabbit holes with no clear direction.
I seem to have been reviewing and making notes on hundreds of articles, books, writers, photographers and getting nowhere. Enough was enough and I needed to try and get all my notes into some sort of order. I tried to place them into the rough subheadings I had agreed with my tutor and ended up with over eight thousand words without even trying to draft an introduction or conclusion.
That draft document sat on my computer for weeks while I made every excuse under the sun to not look at it or even try to reword to reduce the word count and still try to form some form of submission. To finally get some form of submission and not twelve months over it, I decided to lock myself away for the weekend (easier to do in these times of the Worldwide Pandemic) and face the task of reducing the eight thousand down to two.
The process wasn’t easy and resulted in a number of draft versions as I tried write and rewrite. With the word count down but the flow and direction still not clear I felt I have to submit in order to get some clarity. I feel as it I want the essay to not really link to my Body of Work or even reference it but at the moment I’m clearly lost and need a set of impartial eyes to read it, so its being submitted warts and all.
Michele Usher 