In The Beginning

On Friday I filled out my student profile and emailed it off to my assigned tutor- Jane Rogers. I briefly summarised my background and previous experience plus my expectations of the course. The booklet emphasised briefly, so I couldn't waffle on for pages, but once I started writing I felt like there were so many things that I wanted to included and put down on paper that my words and thoughts were all coming out in a jumble. I had to mentally reign myself in for fear of overwhelming/boring the poor woman to death! This made me realise that: a) obviously there are lots of things in my head that have happened that I want to write about and b) my favourite subject to write about is myself! What a Narcissist. Indeed, when flashes of characters and ideas for stories and bits of scenes have come into my head, most often they are influenced by things I have done, seen; places that I have been. After all there is that saying- 'write what you know.'
After sending off my profile to my tutor, I googled this Jane Rogers, like you do, and was instantly struck down with self doubt about myself and my silly little blurb I'd written. Her CV is very impressive, filled with the titles of various novels, lecturing posts and awards that have been won. Good job I did the nosing after I'd sent my profile off!