Hello, Mibba. Remember me? I used to be active in the Avenged Sevenfold fandom back in the day. It's been a whole five years since I posted anything on here, and several years more since I was active, and I don't know if any of my old readers are still around. But I figured this called for an update.Ten years ago I started a little story on this site called Lost. It was a story about a certain...

I used to spend 90% of my time online on Mibba -- browsing stories, posting my own works, editing chapters, or flipping through the blogs section. I even spent a short time as a Story Editor, knowing that it would be a way to give back to this little community. Mibba was my home online.Wattpad was a site that I checked every once in a while, but wasn't majorly into.I always planned on using it to...

Several years ago I wrote a short story called "Raphael".It was born in a time when I was really struggling with my writing, after I'd just finished my last fan fiction and I was reeling from the deaths of two grandparents, and I had a love/hate relationship with it. I loved the idea; I hated the way that I'd executed it.So at the end of last year I did some rewriting and gave the story a serious...

It's been a whole three months since I updated on here, and I'm starting to feel like a really bad Mibbian.It's not that I'm not trying. I open up Crash Into Me at least once a week, but I just don't like where it's at. I keep toying with the idea of just deleting it - and as much as I hate the idea of leaving it unfinished, I mostly feel like it's the right thing to do. Thinking about it stresses...

I don't make New Years' resolutions. I found that when I did, I was never motivated enough to focus on them and it left me feeling like a failure. Instead, each year I give myself a "to-do list". It's less stressful, and I find it easier to accomplish things this way. So here's my to-do list for 2016.Finish a Writing ProjectThis is pretty self-explanatory - I want to complete at least one writing...

I thought that after I finally got through my I can't even finish a first chapter portion of my writer's block, things would get easier. The first chapter would be posted, the second would be flowing, and I'd get back into the groove of things easily enough. But that isn't the way that things have turned out.I don't look at The Demons in Us anywhere near as much as I should, though I do have parts...

Today I'm bringing you an important issue, Mibba.If you have an Australian friends (or if you're Australian yourself), you have probably heard the name Tony Abbott. This man is our current Prime Minister (the leader of our country) and he's been doing all sorts of things that a majority of the public don't agree with: refusing to let them vote on the topic of same-sex marriage, cutting payments to...

Here we are in June and I'm still having the same old problem - I am unable to write anything.Somewhere around the beginning of the year, I announced that I was going to re-write Crash Into Me. I was super-excited about it. I was going to make it bigger and better than the two (three?) versions that came before it, and I was finally going to make good on the sequel I had always promised. I was...

I am the sort of girl who goes to concerts and stands in one of three places: at the back, away from the action; in the middle of the mosh pit, where there is no chance of me seeing anything; at the barrier, off to the side where the crowd isn't so rough.But since I was lucky enough to get to Soundwave this year, I decided it was time to live a little.So, sure. During Tonight Alive's set, I was in...

I hate to use the word depression, but sometimes I feel that this is where I'm at. I still find myself unable to write (and therefore am almost regretting saying that Crash Into Me is making a comeback), I'm not all that interested in hanging out with friends (which works well, since my best friend just moved interstate), and often I feel like doing nothing more than curling up and crying.It's a...

After the year that was, I am hoping that 2014 has finally thrown its last blow my way.My sick kitten had to be put to sleep, Christmas didn't feel like Christmas with both of my grandparents gone, and I still find myself unable to work on any of my numerous original fictions. I wouldn't go as far as to say the combined impact of these things has me depressed, but I am definitely not feeling...

I had big plans for 2014 when it came to my writing.I was going to second draft one of my original novels, done for NaNoWriMo over the years, both so that I could attempt to ready it for publication and so that I could have something new and amazing to post to the site. I was going to really start posting on Wattpad and building up my readership over there, too. I was going to really knuckle down...

Two years ago for NaNoWriMo, I wrote a novel that I tentatively titled Seasons. It centred around four teenagers - Ryan, Bianca, Jarek, and Aspen - who were the hidden heirs to four kingdoms that I based around the four seasons. These kingdoms were hidden from our world, but their discord was the cause for our crazy weather.I was super excited when I wrote Seasons, because I felt it was an...

By now I am sick of my own "I've had writer's block since November!" posts, and my lack of updates can probably clue you in to how that's going - so instead of telling you just how much not being able to write is driving me crazy, I'm going to tell you what I propose to do about it.Yesterday I deleted all previous entries on my personal blog so that I could start it from scratch. It was getting to...

Once upon a time, in a not-so-distant past, I was the sort of Mibbian who tried to update at least once a month. Once a fortnight if possible. If I had my way, I would still be that sort of person. Unfortunately, lately I've been having some issues with my writing.I've probably said it several times already: after finishing my NaNoWriMo novel back in November, I've hardly been able to write a...

It's 8th April here in Sydney. It's cold out, the sky is threatening rain, and all I really want to do is crawl back into bed with my laptop and try to write. Instead, I'm going to keep getting ready for work and hope that the day runs smoothly. That's all you can really hope for when you've got a job to get to.As the title suggests, today is my birthday. (Thank you.) I'm turning twenty-four,...

This is a follow-up post to my previous blog, I Shot Avenged Sevenfold. Take a look at the wonderful image below:I know this isn't a huge deal, but. That right there, ladies and gentlemen, is my photo in Deathbat New's masterpost for the Australian tour galleries. And that link right above it? My photos from Avenged Sevenfold's Sydney sideshow.I would encourage everybody to check out the fantastic...

Photographically, I mean.I developed a serious interest in photography somewhere around 2008, probably around the same time that I went to my first Avenged Sevenfold concert, and it has always been a dream of mine to photograph them professionally. Last night, that dream came true.Big Top, Luna Park. The lines were out the door, but I got to skip to the front; the crowds were absolutely crazy, but...

I want to tell everybody about a phone call that I got fifteen minutes ago, because after Googling the hell out of it, I know it's a scam. But before we start, it's important that you know I sound a whole lot younger than my twenty-three years. I've been told I sound like a ten-year-old.I picked up the phone, there was that few seconds of silence that is the tell-tale sign that your caller is...

Sometime around November of last year I said that I was going to take a chapter-posting hiatus. In other words, I wasn't going to post anything new until January. The thinking behind this was that it would give me time to really focus on my writing, to get my new stories started, and give me time to write without the whole "you need to update!" thing hanging over my head.I am now in a position to...