{"id":14785,"date":"2018-07-19T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:05:10","slug":"favourite-project-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2018\/07\/19\/favourite-project-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When your final project is a dream come true"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nikki Mennen (Netherlands)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hi, I\u2019m Nikki. I\u2019m originally from the Netherlands and came all the way to Bournemouth to study an MA in Creative Writing and Publishing. Luckily, this MA is full of creative and practical projects, which makes the course incredibly fun and helpful. Let me tell you about my all-time favourite project: writing a children\u2019s book for my final year.<\/p>\n

Opportunities to practice<\/strong><\/p>\n

My course consists of a lot of practical exercises and projects, which is great because there are no exams! The course is divided into three semesters: the first semester consists of three modules about writing; the second semester of three modules about publishing, and the last semester is all about your dissertation\/final year project. I am specialising in children\u2019s fiction.<\/p>\n

Free to choose<\/strong><\/p>\n

The projects during the modules in semester 1 and 2 are brilliant, as you are free to choose the topics you find interesting. I chose to create an interactive children\u2019s story, analyse feminism in Disney books, write a marketing plan for my own book and write a short children\u2019s story. I could go on and on, but you see my point. In your final year you can choose between two options: writing an academic dissertation or you can take the more creative approach and choose a project. I chose the latter.<\/p>\n

My dream of writing a book<\/strong><\/p>\n

My final year project is my favourite part of the whole course.\u00a0 I\u2019m still writing it as we speak, and I\u2019m really enjoying it. \u00a0I chose to write a children\u2019s book. This is a big dream of mine and thanks to this course, it is now coming true.<\/p>\n

This project consists of writing 10,000 words, which will be the first chapters of my children\u2019s novel, and 5,000 words of reflective and theoretical background to explain the decisions you made during the writing process.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s amazing that such a practical and creative approach is one of the options to help you graduate from University, and I love, love, love it! When I move back to the Netherlands in September, I will have a children\u2019s novel with me that I will have written myself!<\/p>\n

Nikki Mennen, The Netherlands, MA Creative Writing and Publishing, 2017\/18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, I\u2019m Nikki. I\u2019m originally from the Netherlands and came all the way to Bournemouth to study an MA in Creative Writing and Publishing. Luckily, this MA is full of creative and practical projects, which makes the course incredibly fun and helpful. Let me tell you about my all-time favourite project: writing a children\u2019s book… Read more » about When your final project is a dream come true<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,336],"tags":[1073,2022,2126,2311],"class_list":["post-14785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-blogs-archive","tag-favourite-project","tag-ma-creative-writing-and-publishing","tag-nikki-mennen","tag-the-netherlands"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25778,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions\/25778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}