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Title: Decision time!
Post by: Amanda_George on June 10, 2018, 11:29:40 AM
Decision time:  Do I start writing another manuscript (in which case, for which age range), do I start studying one of the last 2 free courses I've found or do I just veg out and do precisely nothing? 
Title: Re: Decision time!
Post by: Pip on June 10, 2018, 10:02:16 PM
How about giving yourself a week's break then doing one of the courses?
Title: Re: Decision time!
Post by: Amanda_George on June 11, 2018, 11:40:16 AM
Sounds good to me!  I'll write an Early Reader with a teddy bear as the main character today, I just can't remember what sort of adventure he was going to go on when my Muse struck!
Title: Re: Decision time!
Post by: Amanda_George on July 05, 2018, 11:37:16 AM
Another decision to make:

I write books for children and I'm qualified to work with children too. If I'm ever well enough to return to work I want to specialise in childhood psychology.  I've done an OpenLearn course in child psychology and loved it so the first course I'm hoping to do if I'm awarded ESA in November is a child psychology one with the Open University.

I finished editing manuscript for an open submission window for a small publisher that I'm feeling pretty positive about.  I want to work on the synopsis for the manuscript at some point, just to make sure that sparkes too.

I want to do something with today, I just can't decide what that something should be.  I'll maybe polish the synopsis while I'm waiting for any replies to this, which just leaves the courses that I want to do, which are:

Diploma in Mental Health Studies
Diploma in Educational Psychology

I want to do them both and they'll take me a week or ten days of constant studying every day to finish each of them and get awarded the diploma, but which do I do first? 

Do I do the mental health one so that I can learn about what's going on inside my own head and hopefully find a better way to support all of you too (I won't be a medical bod, just a more knowledgeable fellow sufferer) or do I immerse myself back into the psychology one to prepare me for the OU course or do I just spend the day with my head stuck in one of the childhood psychology Kindle books that I bought with the Amazon voucher that the hubby got me for our anniversary?

Any thoughts or opinions will be great 'cos I honestly can't decide between all the choices!


Thank you for your help with the decision - I really appreciate it!  I want to do them all at some point soon, I just don't know which order to do it in is all lol
Title: Re: Decision time!
Post by: Amanda_George on July 05, 2018, 05:52:00 PM
If I ask this question at any time in the next couple of weeks, tell me to get on with editing the manuscripts so that they are properly formatted for submission  lol
Title: Re: Decision time!
Post by: Pip on July 07, 2018, 10:05:54 PM
Personally I would do the mental health one first then do the other one as it is a specialised subject.
Title: Re: Decision time!
Post by: Amanda_George on July 08, 2018, 08:48:43 AM
Okey dokey!  I'll finish editing my manuscripts, send off Garlic and Onions then make a start on the mental health course   :happy0158: