Originally Posted by
Neversoft
I knew a friend of a friend who chose an MA completely unrelated to their BA — seems like a good idea, if you ask me. Twice the experience, twice the options. The cost is a real burden, but I'm glad the government have introduce postgraduate loans. I probably never would have considered it had there been no funding available to me. I'm thinking of switching to full time and maybe working weekends, rather than going the part-time route. The loan is stretched so thin in a part-time course, that I may as well just stay in work, but I guess that's the point.
I went to university in London, but am looking at doing my masters somewhere more local. The inflated expense of everything in London has long since put me off, but more power to anybody who studies there. I did enjoy my time in the capital.
I'll (hopefully) be studying creative writing. I did a mixture of creative writing, journalism and film studies at university and it's definitely my calling. I want to go with creative writing over the (probably) more sensible choice of English literature since I also have an interest in screenwriting, which is more in line with the former. I wrote a novella as part of my final year at university, but didn't get to go much further. I'd really like to hone my abilities and focus on something worthwhile, while tackling more advanced fiction writing. I'm aiming to have sent my application by Friday, but I need to put together 2,000 words of recent prose, so I'm currently revising and checking over some pieces!