Blog Milestones: 1 year of blogging

I'll admit, I've not been the most regular blogger. Heck, I've written virtually nothing over the past few months. But this morning, I looked at the date and it struck me - today is an entire year since I first publicised this blog, making it open to the public and actively showing the world what …

Goals for 2017: Before I turn 21

It's a bit late in the year to be setting goals, I am aware, but a lot of these have been ongoing for a while; I'm just making a conscious decision to post about them because I've realised I have only 2.5 months left in the year, and I want to make sure they're productive …

Alternate endings

When writing short stories or poems, I rarely know the story when I first begin writing. Often it's just a vague idea or situation I picture, which I then develop upon as I write. Sometimes I realise what my primary plot-line will be, sometimes I think of an ending that I like and write towards …

Writing therapy and people’s perceptions of me

When I began this blog over 2 years ago, back when absolutely nobody knew it existed, I'd begun it to write. I'd write my thoughts, my feelings, the things I didn't quite know how to talk to people about. It was a kind of therapy, a beautiful, self-satisfying therapy that allows you to express yourself …

Writing woes

So many thoughts that I can't put down, Ideas for poems to which I never get around, Half-written articles that trail off midway, These are some problems that I have today. A daily prompt story I started last week, It had direction, but the ending was weak, So I pushed it aside, I put it …

poem for the magazine

I sat down one day To write a short piece To submit to the school magazine. But my ideas were bad The words were not flowing It was like my mind had been wiped clean. A friend of mine had been asking For the past couple weeks That I write an article she could edit. …