Hotel managers still leave Bibles hidden away in the little bedside draws of their granny flats’.There is something surreal about having just come from an abusive and miserable situation, which is your life, then to have one week of peace, being fully aware that that situation will still be there when you get back. The time away in a hotel or at friend or family member’s place for example, a...

Sometimes I get flashbacks. Flashbacks of all sorts of things. Like when I nearly thought I had to break up with my boyfriend a year ago. So glad that didn't happen. The issue I thought was an issue, was something that was able to be dealt with. It wasn't a deal breaker like I had thought it might be. And we've been so happy. It scares me sometimes how close I came to ending it all. Commitment is...

Why should people write?To express themselves?To comfort others?To guide others?To teach others?To teach them what?Science?Feeling?Coping strategies?Life tips?Right and wrong?Should people write,To expose truth?To inspire change?To entertain others?Most of the possibilities have a lot more to do with the reader, and less to do with the writer.To be a successful writer only half of it is inspired....

The other day I came up with this list of things that I've noticed a lot of great stories (whether it be a book or a movie) like Titanic, Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet (I think these are great stories anyway - I'm sure not everybody would agree) have in common. I came up with this list because I was asking myself, what makes a great story? I'm always thinking about these sorts of things.So this...

Has anyone ever heard of the 10,000 hour rule? I read about it in a magazine article.If you practise at something, by the 10,000th hour of you're practicing at it (not in a row) you'll be an absolute pro at it. Apparently this is what a lot of tennis players do, and I think even Einstein did, or maybe he was the one who first came up with this theory ?Anyway. This little fact is good to know. If I...

Lately I have just been feeling so unsatisfied. I do not know who I am, or what I want. I suspect me feeling like this is just because I have not been having any time at all really to be alone and to just think. I feel like I never know what I am doing, like my actions have no sense to them. I need to remember who I am.What makes a person who they are? What makes you, you? What makes me, me?If you...

Numbers aren’t my passion – words are. But I was good at Maths… I always got As and Bs, and I was only okay with English… I only ever got Cs. I would rather jump off a bridge than become an accountant though. Writing from my feelings and imagination, fussing over every word and full stop so that it sounds just right, is what gives me satisfaction. But with grades like mine, am I really cut...