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At the moment of posting this, I have been living in another country for over three months. It has been a whirlwind of emotions and experiences. From making foreign friends, eating food I would never eat at home, and doing lots of touristy things whilst also making time for the study and work that I’mContinue reading “Experiences and Contentment”

As you can see from the title, this one is a little less to do with novels, but it still has to do with stories, and that’s what we talk about here. We talk about tales and whilst I’m aiming to become an author, there was a time where I actually wanted to be aContinue reading “Blood on the Camera: A Metaphor for Reminding the Audience of Story Devices at Work”

So much of what we consume is art. A television series, a film, video games, books, puzzles, trips to the museum. We, as human beings, constantly surround ourselves with art that other people have produced, and that’s really beautiful. We look to these sources of creativity, and we absorb it into our own lives toContinue reading “The Importance of Creative Outlets”

As the pandemic continuously stretches on, I think it’s fair to say we’ve all found joys wherever we can. For example, I got to spend my last year at university studying from home, which brought me inundated happiness because I’m an incredibly independent learner who likes making my own schedule. My mother has been workingContinue reading “The Joys of Online Book Tours”

I’ve wanted to be an author for more years than I can count; it was my first dream career when I was in primary school, and then I went down a few different aspirations before I came back to realising being an author is the career for me. In fact, I was preparing to beContinue reading “Finding Time to Write”

I mentioned this briefly in another post, and I thought it warranted one of its own because, if I’m to share my opinions and tell you all who I am as a writer, the kind of reader I am is important too. I’ve said it before, and I’ll definitely say it plenty of times inContinue reading “I’m A Fussy Reader”

I once spent an undisclosed amount of money to receive around fifty notebooks because one of my favourite stationary stores was having a New Year’s sale. Not only did I not need another fifty notebooks, I already had probably about that same amount at home. Some unused, some fully used, some half-used. Despite this, everyContinue reading “I Can’t Get Enough Notebooks”

This is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot recently, particularly before I started blogging. As someone who likes to be prepared for every possibility, I would use this question to stop myself from doing something. I would weigh up the pros and cons, and then ask myself this question, which would usually leadContinue reading “Why Not?”

This post is going to be about the experience and power of reading, inspired by two books I’ve recently read/am reading. The first is Maggie Stiefvater’s, Mister Impossible, and the second is Daniel Howell’s, You Will Get Through This Night. They’re two incredibly different books: one’s YA fantasy and the other is a mental healthContinue reading “Two Recent Reads”