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If you've been reading here for a while, you might have realized that over the past couple of years (yes! it really has been that long), I've been working on a memoir of my relationship with my mother.  Last October, I posted that my writing partner and I had celebrated the completion of our respective drafts. At the time, I was unsure whether I would do anything more with mine, but since then, I've begun revising it into a second draft. Turns out, after that break from the material, that I'm pleased with what I've written, and I can see more clearly what the completed memoir will do. I expect I'll tell you more about that eventually.

Meanwhile, I've been revising, and it's been going quite well, and then Instagram began showing me "sponsored posts" about an online course given by a local university, and the next thing I knew, I had enrolled myself in a six-week course on How to Structure and Outline a Novel.

Now, I have never thought much about writing fiction, but somehow last year I wrote a few chapters of something, mostly as an antidote to the emotionally gruelling work of memoir-writing. Those chapters were fun, and they showed me two things: how very ill-prepared I am to create characters and plot, especially (I think I could get setting, world-building) and that I would like to figure out how this is done and see if I could do it.

So. . . . the course started yesterday, and students are advised to allot four to six hours weekly, and I am quite sure I won't be able to do that and keep up regular posting.

I will try to continue with twice-weekly posts, but I suspect many of those will be photos only.

The photos in today's post: Top, of my mother, holding me as a baby; Middle, my journal page with a pencil sketch of that photo; Bottom: A Mural I saw in a back alley on my run yesterday -- I see myself in that little girl, myself trying to sort the puzzle of the story I've been telling about my mother, about myself as mother and daughter. . . .

I'm off now to view some video tutorials and think about the assignment I need to post later in an on-line Discussion Group. A bit odd, to be honest, being on the other side of the screen from when I was setting assignments and moderating discussions as Course Instructor. At least, I've been on the student side of the screen when I took a short Craftsy course on Perspective in Sketching, but that was in a field where my expectations for myself are low. A Writing Course, on the other hand, for a former Literature Professor (which, of course, I have not divulged to other students nor to instructors) brings some performance pressure I'm trying to ignore.  I think it's good for me, though, right? At the very least, adapting to a new software platform keeps the brain cells fresh?

What about you? I know many of you have taken online courses and/or other forms of Continued Education -- what were your biggest concerns or fears? And did those problems materialize? How did you overcome them? (or not!) And were the courses worth the effort? What were the biggest benefits you got from them? Etc. Etc.. . . I'd love to hear your stories and advice. Chat amongst yourselves, and I'll be back when I find a minute. I'll read all your comments, but I may not find time to respond to all of them. 

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