I’ve been thinking, and I’ve decided my creative muscles need some flexing. The last time I wrote anything creative that I can remember was some scripting and monologue work for AS Theatre Studies, 2 years ago! As for other forms I haven’t completed a play since year 11 or a short …
A rather depressing trend that’s developing, if the stats we see in newspapers or on T.V are to be believed, is that more and more children are becoming prey to our apparent ‘celebrity culture’. This week, the weekly newspaper ‘The Week’ published the latest of similar stats that have been …
A couple more course books arrived today! I read a few of the Oates short stories this evening though and wasn’t tremendously impressed. I mean sure, the topics were probably quite new and possibly radical early on in her career, but I’m not so sure about now. The prose itself …
The first instalment of my book order for next semester (Late Twentieth Century Literature) arrived today, can’t wait to get started on them!
Image credit: Hat Trick Productions. ‘Episodes’ is a new BBC sitcom of a British couple (played by Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan) who also happen to have written and produced their own BAFTA winning comedy show, Lymen’s Boys. They are persuaded at the awards ceremony by an American network to …
I’ve not had much experience of war films, and am ignorant particularly of, perhaps even to the point of being offensive, the Vietnam war. That being said, the film didn’t really need contextualising. War is always terrible, no matter who’s siding with who or where it takes place. But allow me to …
Testing, testing… 1,2,3…
A photo I took on holiday last summer, just to brighten up the place a bit!
So one change I have decided to make for the new year is to write more. Writing for my course, naturally but also writing for myself. To bring some pleasure back into what has recently begun to feel more like a chore; something I have to do but not something …
