Literary festival, Ghosts and Other Stories (lots of balls in the air)

Am currently staying with mother in Dorset, where there is the Bridport Literary festy in full swing, plus am trying to do lots of other things all at once and feeling a bit swamped...
Managed to organise myself some extra time for my assignment which is good, but my work for the exercises and my learning log has gone a bit askew- for Assignment 1 I worked steadily and methodically on each exercise in order, and wrote frequently in my learning log/ had regular updates on here. This time around I have done lots of notebook work for each exercise and half completed things here and there whilst barely touching my learning log. Hmm, slapped wrists I know but it's difficult trying to fit all the million and one things I have to do into the day, so this way of working in dribs and drabs seems to fit best at the moment so I guess I shall stick with it.... I shall just endeavour to write here more frequently after each piece of work I do so as not to let it slide. It's just easy to push the Learning Log part of the course to the bottom of my to-do list as it seems more important to spend time on the actual writing part of it...

Also, another distraction adding to my list is a ghost story that I am currently working on alongside my course work. Discovered a 'Halloween themed' competition in the Telegraph newspaper- a 2000 word ghost story due in by November 20th. Am trying to link it in to my current coursework by using some of the same characters/ scenes so that it will be relevant to this assignment. It is going ok so far, have written about 1000 words already but I feel that the story is not developing quick enough to be finished in the word limit. Think I need to possibly re-think the storyline....

In terms of where I am in the course- have been gathering notes on my mum's boyfriend Chris, for the poetry part of the assigment and have just begun drafting down the bones of a poem using them although I think it will need some amount of redrafting before it is usable.

Have also been thinking about the final submission for this assignment as well- which character that I want to write about the most and I keep changing my mind, am now thinking maybe I will take the poetry route about a number of different characters? Anyway, I shall keep trying things out and report back soon. Over and out...