HAPPY HALLOWEEN, PALS!OK so it's very nearly Halloween and, being the generous recluse that I am, I thought I might do another candy bowl this year! I stole the idea (lel) from losing control; to do a little surprise candy bowl this year so that it's a proper trick or treat!HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: below are gifs of 5 of my favourite queens from RuPaul's Drag Race. Simply pick the gif that connects...

So I've been writing the same novel for three years.It's very short and I hate most of it. I find that writing longer form works (ie longer than what I post on here) is a super super emotional and draining experience. How do authors pump out new books every year or two? How do they not leave it for two days, come back and realise they hate it all and have to start again?I have a feeling that if I...

I keep a kind of journal. It's not kept every day and it's not really a journal of what I did - I guess it's a kind of mood map of my life. I write when I feel happy, or sad, or lost. It's funny, because it doesn't really include anything about the days that live and die without event or reason - it's kind of chaotic, I guess, because it's only ever way way up or way way down.Today I woke up...

So after a spate of recent writing and activity here on Mibba, I've decided to revive one of my old unfinished stories and finish it off. I have three in mind, but I can't decide which one to tackle first:Pear is the story of a boy caught between two loves, and two selves: he is offered the choice to regress to safety or move forward in to an unknown world.Marrow is an exploration of health and...

Mibba, ~we meet again~So I've been on this site for years - I can't actually find anywhere with my joining date, but I think it was probably about 2009 (??) . Over the course of those years, I've been active on and off.It's funny, because I find that my writing style changes fairly significantly during my 'off' periods, so when I come back to Mibba I find myself deleting most of my stuff and...

Hello again, Mibba!So today I completed a competition entry - it's called Dreamscape and it's a little experimental. I've noticed that the feedback I get most often is that my stories are not particularly clear, that they're a little too wispy and fluffy and aren't structured enough.I've tried hard with this story, although part of the purpose of this one is that you don't actually fully work out...

Today I woke to the news that David Bowie, aged 69, had passed away.I'm not entirely sure how I feel, how exactly I am reacting. David Bowie is not my favourite musician, but his music is inexorably tied and bound to my life in so many little ways. I feel like I need to get these little memories and moments down somewhere, to make this real.1. I'm about 5 years old and I'm sitting in the back of...

After becoming more active on Mibba over the last few days, I've been re-reading some of my old work. I'm still proud of a lot of it, and I think it has the bare bones of something good, but I've found myself actually getting annoyed with my own writing style.Everything is too florid, too verbose. Too many adjectives, too many similes - I want to go back over everything and strip it all back,...

All the little plans for my life are starting to come in to sharper focus, and it's really exciting me. I feel like over the last few months I've grown so much, and my dreams feel so much more achievable. So much closer. I think I used to really drown in my dreams, consume myself in a fantasy about where I would be, punish myself over and over again for how distant they were. I feel like I could...

So I don't think I've actually posted anything on Mibba in nearly 6 months or more. Eek.Honestly, the only good reason I can give for this is life. I started Uni in March and since then I've just been so busy that I literally haven't written creatively since the end of the summer holidays. I'm also trying to get my music career going, and that's all very slow and stressful.Turning 18 has been...

There is nothing in this life, no one small object or deeper desire that I have ever wished for than for my success as a singer.The only things I ever feel comfortable in nowadays are my words and my voice, and the fever-dream that is my desire for success in music feels like it's been injected straight in to my veins. It's behind everything I do, every sleeping and waking moment. That vision of...

OK HELLO.So I have this recurring problem in my life, that amazing amazing bands that I love come on small tours to my area, and I get super excited, but then I can never find anyone to come with me. This is because I have the weirdest most eclectic music taste on the face of the Earth, and unless I'm giving away a free ticket to Beyonce, no one is willing to spend $30 to come see some weird...

Maybe I am just a hypersensitive toolbag, who knows, but having been on this website for a few years now, there are some things that I used to tolerate that I have recently run out of patience for. The main one of these is whiny author's notes.Here's the thing about writing, that I've said time and time again. People will recognise your writing if it is GOOD. I am so absolutely sick of reading...

The recent discussion of fan fiction vs. original fiction on Mibba has been really interesting to me of late, because it's not something I've ever really thought about in depth. All of my stories are either original fiction or true stories, some of which are slash fiction. I've never written fan fiction, nor have I been inclined to.So saying, it has interested me that some people on here have...

♡HEY YOU GUYS WELCOME WELCOME ♡I have a bit of time on my hands today, so I figured I would start up a halloween candy bowl! I'm also super dooper excited to read a bunch more stuff today, because I feel like I've been very focused on my own writing recently - so let's do this!how this will work1. Choose two lollies from the list below!2. Please be patient with me - I promise I will get to...

It's getting to that time of year where everyone is excited about their futures. With my final IB exams starting in exactly one month from today, people are getting amped up about what awaits them after they get over this final hurdle- university, a family, the struggles and triumphs of adulthood. Partying, studying, working, independence. A lot of people have applied to universities overseas, and...

As of Saturday, Tony Abbott became the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.Like many politically-minded Australians, I watched the election results rolling in on ABC, and whilst I wasn't particularly surprised, I still burst in to hysterical tears at the announcement.Why is this, you ask?Well, curious foreigner, here are some of the things that Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of this country, has...

OK so as someone who has read/written a bit of slash and femmeslash, it's obviously something I've encountered a wide range of. Some of the stuff I've read here has been absolutely amazing, and some of it has had good ideas, but some of it has just irritated me beyond belief, particularly as someone with a lot of gay/bi/pansexual friends. So here are my top 5 pet peeves (most of which relate to...

ok so I just wanted to write this because I have been sort of dealing with this a bit recently.The other day I was with my close friend who has just sort of come out (by sort of I mean he's told about 20 people but has no intention of ever telling his parents) as bi, and we were talking about the instance of homosexuality where we live. I argued that it's honestly everywhere, it's just that people...

hanging out with youjust.. hanging outhasbeenreallynice.just had to get that out there in to the universe.Also, on top of this, my new story has been getting really awesome feedback from everyone I've shown it to and that is making me really happy because honestly, I just write how I think :) it's always so lovely to get feedback on things you've done.Plus my best friend agreed to go to my formal...