AND my nails survived the prolonged wait 
My tutor didn’t get home until the early hours of this morning and so didn’t manage to get by TMA back into the system until just before 10am. I checked in ten minutes after to get her message and dashed over to the OU site straight away.
It was a huge relief to discover that my fiction TMA (which had been a long hard slog) had improved just a few marks on the first TMA. Having ready the various posts by unhappy students who had dropped 15 marks from first to second TMA, I was able to heave a deep sigh, make another cup of tea, print out the saved marked TMA then sit down to read and inwardly digest. I could have kicked myself for not indenting the dialogue and I got a few commas in the wrong place, but overall that was only a minor self criticism. She said the story worked well, I’d created believable characters and the plot was good. I even managed a reasonable commentary but she advised me to make more reference to my notebooks and more about how I was influenced by external sources.
Now I feel much more positive about the poetry module
