Foundations Of Me
I tell this story every year, but that’s because it’s important to me. It’s my origin story: my superhero origin story. It’s a turning point in my life, a formative influence that made me who I am. So...
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Teenage Selfies (TCWT)
This is not my usual kind of post. This is for this month’s Teens Can Write Too! blog chain, and is one of the most challenging prompts we’ve ever had. Prompt: “Use pictures and individual words to...
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2014: Selfies, Dungarees, Undergrad Degrees
It seems that around this time of year, everything starts being retrospective. Things we achieved this year, failures we want to rectify next year — and I’m no exception. This is going to be less...
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Tea-Deprived Existentialism
Disclaimer: my knowledge of philosophy has been absorbed purely through osmosis and brief definitions given in English lessons to explain poetic movements. Therefore I might not actually be talking...
View ArticleGetting Over Lost Friends
I feel like I should have some kind of tag or content warning here: ahoy, personal post about Me and My Life and Things That Happened In It. But I guess that’s most of the posts on this blog, so you...
View ArticleBaby Steps Are Still Steps
This is not a post I particularly feel like posting. I wrote the majority of it yesterday, when I felt a little bit less awful and hopeless than today. Here I am sitting at my computer at the end of a...
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Returning To Holly Black’s World
After months of being able to type almost as much as I’d like to, my wrists have flared up to the point where I’m back to using Dragon even for relatively short things. I’m using it for this post, so I...
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Baby Miriam Judges Your Life
I love baby photos. I think they’re absolutely hilarious. Pre-2000 Miriam was completely adorable. She had a very expressive face and a tendency to look concerned, upset, or judgemental about pretty...
View ArticleOn “Literature” (And Also Sex)
In today’s Review section of The Guardian (what a middle class way to start a blog post, I’m ashamed of myself) there was an article by Scarlett Thomas with which I absolutely could not identify. The...
View ArticleInto The Void
Today, I signed a copy of Broken Body Fragile Heart for a friend of mine. There’s nothing that really compares to signing your name inside something you wrote — a physical, tangible sign that maybe one...
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Who, What, Where, Why, How
While everyone I know is making jokes about how epically they failed to live up to their New Year’s Resolutions for 2015 or bragging about their achievements, I’m feeling quietly smug that I decided to...
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A New Decade
I wasn’t a big fan of being a teenager. It meant people didn’t take me seriously, especially when it came to writing, and since I look younger than I am, I hated having that –teen suffix to emphasise...
View ArticleUnderstanding Teenagers
Recently, I was working on a writing project that needed me to sound like a fifteen-year-old girl and, despite having been one of those only a few years ago, I found it hard to be sure whether I was...
View ArticleMental Illness Is A Sneaky Beast
Sometimes I think I’m managing okay despite my anxiety and depression getting in the way of life. Okay, so I’m not at university, but Cambridge is a stressful place and I’m managing fine apart from...
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Expections Vs Reality
As you’ll know if you spend any time in bookish internet communities (or just read my blog), The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater came out this week. Mine, despite having been pre-ordered, didn’t come...
View ArticleA Waiting Game
Last week, I finished writing Bard. Although I’m aware that it has flaws (many, many flaws) I’m pretty proud of it in its first draft state, and my handful of Wattpad readers have, for the most part,...
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A Queer Reading Of My Life
One of the things I learned during A-Level English Literature that I hadn’t come across before was the idea of different readings of a text. I mean, I think I’d been doing it unconsciously already, but...
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Christmas, Adulthood, and Festive Transitions
Christmas as a young adult is weird. As is the fact that this gingerbread man has a button but no shirt. What’s with that? It starts getting weird in your mid teenage years, I think, although maybe...
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Depression, Writing, and 2016
One thing that’s been noticeable about 2016 is that I haven’t been blogging very much. I made a brief attempt in the middle of the year to change that, but it didn’t last long, and since then a weekly...
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Crafting And Calm
I think it was an oversight when, in my posts about the end of 2016 and in exploring my goals for 2017, I neglected to mention that I recently took up knitting. Well, resumed it. My grandma wasn’t a...
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