Keeping an Open Notebook

I've got a week or so before the phone tutorial on the 20 minute voice-over script. That gives me time to start the research on Unit 2: the 30 minute research-based thing.

I like this one. You have to make observations on a place, and then use them to write a story. I'm going to go into it with an open mind, and just see where my notes take me.

The point of this assignment is to get you writing from life, developing your point of view, not writing something that reads like you saw it on TV.

So, this week, I'll be hanging around Teignmouth Harbour with a notebook and a flask. If weather demands it, I'll don an anorak.

Oh, oh, I know. I'm going to be a life-spotter.