In three weeks time, I’ll be completely free.

After seventeen years in full-time education, I finally pack my bags and head back home from the University of Birmingham, where I’m finishing up my English with Creative Writing degree programme. I’ve enjoyed my time there and learned a lot of life lessons, so it’s safe to say I’ve no regrets.

That said, I’m ready to leave.

For the last two years, I’ve juggled my fiction writing/blogging/marketing with my degree. Neither have suffered for my extende...