Currently sailing North above the Indian Ocean - with no intention of ever coming down.
"A person is a fool to become a writer.His only compensation is absolute freedom."Roald Dahl
Today is my 22nd birthday.Apparently, time is collapsing.
I have some very exciting news to share: my short story got published! Its called The Haunted Toymaker, and I would really, really appreciate it if youd take the time to read it. Ive got butterflies ...
Everything is beautiful. Everything is beautiful. Everything is.
My friend Christina has started a penpal group, and I thought it was such a nice idea that I wanted to share it with you. Head over to Christinas blog to read more about it.
Wishlist:A cottage in the countrysideAn observatory in my back gardenAn unlimited supply of book vouchers
Thank you to the very talented Christina from Where the Wild Roses Grow for re-designing my blog.
Last nights dream:I was meeting an old friend in a beautiful, crumbling castle. We were talking and wondering through the misty ruins, happy to be reunited. Then I put my coat on to leave, in a hurry...
"However, as time passed, my initial grandiose but cloudy visions dispersed, leaving a kind of daunted blankness. It was like finding yourself in a great library as a young writer, gazing around ...
"Obstruction, obscurity, emptiness, disorientation, twilight, blackout, often combined with a struggle or path or journey - an inability to see ones way forward, but a feeling that there was a wa...
Everything.My childhood.Golden.*
Chasing lycaenidae (and other obscure words).I keep all my regrets in sealed envelopes;it makes them easier to live with.
The sadness-spider is still nesting inside my ribs. I thought it had stopped spinning its cobwebs long ago. But it hasnt. Yesterday evening, it spun a huge one that has been swallowing me ever since....
Sherlock Holmes - pencil portrait*
Thank you to everyone who participated in my 2012 giveaway.The winner is Melee - congratulations!
A few things to add to last years love letter: light-filled hallways, laughter in unexpected places, hand shadows by torchlight (like the Baudelaires), afternoon naps, sitting on warm windowsills, sh...
"Have a great number of threads been interwoven in this lecture? Which thread should I pull on to find the end in my hand? There is the thread that connects the moon, Leopardi, Newton, gravitatio...
(Click on the image to make it larger.)I am very happy to announce my annual giveaway. This is in celebration of my blogs 2nd birthday, and also to say a grand merci to all my beautiful readers. One ...
StarsAs night comesI stand on the stairs listening,stars are swarming in the gardenand I stand in the dark.Listen, a star fell with a ting!Dont step on the grass with bare feet:my garden is full of s...
End-of-Year EpiphanyI remember now what matters to me and what doesn’t, what I care about and what others care about, what the meaning of life used to be - although I don’t remember when it stopped b...
Sometimes, I get this terrible sinking feeling in my stomach, like someone’s dropped an anchor inside me, and everything slows down, and nothing looks familiar, not even my own blank spaces, and it f...
"Nature of the theatrical illusion; everything you see is false." (The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe, Angela Carter) We could say that life is a theatrical illusion (and we wonder who came up wi...
(Time for me to hibernate.)I want to be white light, too bright for human eyes to see.Thank you very much to everyone who replied to my previous post. This is tremendously exciting. I will tell you m...
Remembering halcyon summers. Thinking of everything that could have been."You are the silence in between what I thought and what I said."(Does anyone recognise the song lyrics?)Ps, Im thinkin...
My favourite things (Oct - Nov 2011)Novel-writingThe new series of BBC MerlinFlorence + the Machines new albumBuying little trinkets for my January giveawayOh Comely magazine - "keep your curiosi...
I captured the rising sun.It shivered in my palm.(Ps, I have changed my name from Thea to B. I didnt feel comfortable using a false name, anymore. Perhaps I have simply come to accept who I am.)
NaNoWriMo begins tomorrow! (Thats National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who dont know.) The aim is to write a 50,000 word novel by the end of November. I have known about it for years, but I...
Notes from a sleepless midnight:1. It all comes down to Not-Knowing.2. "I am scared that nothing is real."3. Its funny (well, not really) how I am never honest with myself.5. "These days,...
All is well. Better than well, in fact. Extraordinarily well.I hope you are well, too, my beauties.
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