Writing

So in case y'all didn't know, I am currently at Keele University reading English with Creative Writing and I therefore do a lot of reading and writing.
Last semester for a 'Poetry through Practice' module, we were asked to write a poem per fortnight and submit them in a portfolio at the end of the module. 
This semester, I have a 'Fiction through Practice' module that requires me to write 500 words of short fiction per week, leading up to a 2,500-3,000 word short story to be handed in at the end of the module.
A few of the people on my course have been putting their work up on their blogs, so I figure I might do the same, if that's alright with you guys?
I hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to comment on any of it - constructive criticism is just as good as praise people! :)
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N.B.
1. Reading list has been updated. Don't be disappointed in me! I know it's only another 4 or so crossed off, but I have also read: Moll Flanders, Cranford, Mrs Dalloway, (half of) The Hours, The Merchant of Venice, Oroonoko, The Measures Taken, The Island (Byron), The Island (from The Township Plays), Wuthering Heights (again -_-), and excessive amounts of poetry, all for my first semester at Uni. I finished The Tempest, which is the first play for this semester, last night. On top of all that, I have read The Mortal Instruments series up to about half way through book four, and I recently read and reviewed the manuscript of Moonfall by Vanessa Morton, which is being published soon-ish.
So please don't be disappointed in me for only crossing off another four from my reading list!! D:
2. Taking dictaphone notes from my Fiction seminar last week - seminar leader comments he keeps coming back to the idea of writing about someone who wakes up with their legs on fire.... Doubt any of us will be falling asleep in class any time soon...