Assignment result

I was thrilled last week to get my final Play Writing assignment back and found I had scored an amazing 95%. It gave me an enormous rush of confidence and pleasure.
I had meantime contacted the only local to Nicosia, theatre company in English to ask if I can sit in on their new production from start to finish to get a feel and understanding of theatre in the real so to speak. They hope to start a new production late April and are very welcoming to me (it is also perfect timing for me).
http://www.alphasquare.com.cy/productions

Have also spent the last week or so transfixed by the New Yorker short story podcasts. The sheer pleasure of hearing good writing from across a span of time, read by writers and discussed by them about what makes them and the writers so good has been wonderful and instructive. The downside is that you feel that there is little point in 'picking up your own pen' so to speak. But I do.