What if I'm not good enough? What if they laugh, sneer, or use my work as a bad example? What if I fail? Without bravery, I'd still be working a stressful and mostly unsatisfying job in retail. I'd still be questioning if I was good enough to be a writer, instead of showing people just …
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Poem: Your Messy Garage
Your messy garage was a fort, a haven and a dusty adventure, one I can venture that you had to lure me out of many times. "Don't go in there!" I had to be aware because it was just so dangerous to climb. My mountain, my mission, a tomb of treasures, I couldn't just decline, …
To Stop and Smell the Roses – Writing & Anxiety
I am guilty. I am guilty of not basking in a moment of pure joy and pride. I have anxiety. I've had it as long as I can remember, but only put a name to it in my teenage years. Generalised Anxiety Disorder. GAD. Why is this important? Well, sometimes when you have anxiety, you …
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Poem: You didn’t choose me
Rash decisions and poor choices, left you listening to the wrong voices when you chose everything else over us. Drowning out the loud calls for you to step up and break the fall but you didn’t, you kept falling, took us all with you when you dropped the ball - You dropped us. You stopped …
Dialect Writing Challenge – The Black Country.
I tried to challenge myself to write using the Black Country dialect. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it's where I call home. Now, I am born and raised in the Black Country, however, not all of us have all of the 'quirks' when it comes to spaking *ahem* speaking. Actually, we're all a tiny …
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It’s been a while
As usual, heading towards summer has been a hectic journey! To recap, I am a student and I also work in a University so up until May-June life is busy. I handed in all my undergraduate work back in May and I am now waiting for the results to trickle in! *fingers crossed* - So …
TEDx Wolverhampton
So yesterday Wolverhampton held it's first ever TEDx talk! TEDx Wolverhampton - Mind the Gap - Building Bridges. I was fortunate enough to be included as a volunteer to help out with the TEDx Blog and the University of Wolverhampton's social media pages, alongside two other brilliant writers: Chloe & Matt. We are all third …
Mistakes & Perfectionism
Yes, we all make mistakes. ALL of us. Novice to expert. The question is how you deal with the mistake and why you made it in the first place. Why are we so self-punishing for making a mistake? Perhaps it's the embarrassment, the fear of judgment or that it will impact on people's perception of …
Black Bird Film Festival 2019
Another triumphant return for the Black Bird Film Festival 2019. This year the independent film festival held at The Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, had a goal of £500 to raise for charity after raising over £200 for The Sophie Lancaster Foundation in 2018, instead, they managed to raise over £550 for this year's selected charity Crisis …
