Good Luck in all your efforts
It seems to be in the air as I too am looking into additional courses and I don't doubt that it may have been even longer for me since I was at school.
I was exchanging emails with Lee about it and she made a very good point. Write, write , write. (or something along those lines - sorry for the paraphrase Lee
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Something along the lines of practise makes perfect I think she was getting at. And its true. I only really started seriously writing stories about six months ago ans annoying Fiction Factor editors for less than half that but my writing is definately improving.
Still I want to better my writing everyway I can so I applaud you and intend on doing something similar although University scares me - I think I'll just go with the local creative writing courses.
Every bit of polish helps.
BT