Relocation

Well, here it is, the link to my new blog: http://bookabyebaby.wordpress.com/

It has a slightly different focus, so I hope you guys will still enjoy it, and that I'll get to see you all there :)

A decision has been made!

After careful consideration and discussions with people outside of this blog, I have decided that I need a clean slate and a fresh start, so will be testing out Wordpress in the next couple of days and will likely start a new blog over there. I will not be deleting this blog, my posts will remain, but I have decided I need to do this as the best way for me to start feeling passionate about blogging again and writing more. My life has turned a corner and it's fitting that my blog does too. I will look at refocussing the blog more on reading and perhaps even setting myself a mammoth reading challenge, but will inject the personal from time to time, just perhaps not as frequently.

Anyway, will keep you posted when the big shift is done!

Books, writing and gaming

Well again I'm not too sure where the last three weeks have gone. This time though I haven't been doing much exciting because Uni finishes on June 8th and I have had assignments to work on (and looks like that's all I'll be doing for the next two weeks too). I've had to write and submit another short story which I'm super happy I got another High Distinction for, and am hoping my final story due next Friday also ends up with a good grade. It's so nice to be able to write and I guess I'm not too bad at it after all which is nice. Next step is to try and get published somewhere I guess!

The long bus trips mean I still have time to read and I recently borrowed and finished a couple of books from the library. I recently read Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman which I really enjoyed, and Play Abandoned by Garry Disher which, although well written, I didn't think was that great. I think I just find it difficult to get into a story when there isn't a single character I like.

Glen and I are also frantically trying to use up some free movie tickets we got for Christmas which expire on June 30 so we've recently been to see The Avengers (which I LOVED) and Dark Shadows, which was better than I thought it would be.

And my free time is very limited at the moment which is killing me because Diablo 3 has finally been released and I have only been able to play a little bit of it! Looking forward to the end of semester so I can sink many, many hours into it lol.

Hmm I think that's pretty much been it aside from a quiet Mother's Day with the family, not that it matters as I think my readership has dried up!

Good intentions

I always have the best of intentions to stay on top of my studies while still being able to work full-time and I've been doing pretty well but this week I am struggling so am falling behind already.  I've come down with some cold/flu type thing which seems to be going around the office so since Sunday I've been feeling really flat.  I've had today and yesterday off work which means whole days where I could be getting ahead in my readings or assignments but I just can't concentrate, so I'm moving between the PC, the recliner and the couch at the moment and accomplishing very little.

One of the subjects I'm doing this semester is Writing and Reading Short Fiction and I truly don't think I belong in that class.  The other people read their work and they're so creative, and my own writing seems so crap in comparison, truly.  Our first assignment is due this Friday and we had to rewrite a fairytale, for an adult audience but being careful not to make it a new fairytale in the process.  I've been sitting on around 450 words since last Thursday and I just don't know where to go with it.  I don't even know what to call it.  I actually think this introductory assignment is harder than coming up with our own story off the top of our head.  It's hard when you've wanted to be a writer your whole life and then feel like you're failing at it.