The Time Is Just Around The Corner!

The time for my writing race to begin is just around the corner!
Okay, I say race when I know it isn't.
What I really mean is 'writing frenzy'.
I have a very busy summer organised, in which my laptop and all my files for this novel project will come with and the creation of my novel will be fully under way!
I have been so desperate to write over the last few months, it has been infuriating to know that my exams are more important!
I have booked a week in Glasgow, visiting some family friends and their new child.
The Father, (whom we call Big T as he has the same name as my twin, T), is an English Professor in a university in Glasgow and is madly passionate about English - as am I.
My various expeditions happening throughout summer will hopefully give me some new material, ideas, knowledge and experiences which we help my think outside the book and develop the novel that much further.
My summer includes a day tour of the Harry Potter Studios!, watching T run with the Olympic flame!, going to Hop Farm Music Festival and watching BOB DYLAN live! (I am a HUGE fan of his!), going to 6 debates/philosophical talks on one weekend, kayaking down the river Wye with my Dad, going on our annual fishing holiday in Wales, going somewhere in Europe with my mum and C, - my older brother who is in the - army - and having a huge charity music festival in the village in which I live! I think that just about leaves me with around 3 weeks (not in a row at all!) to hang at home and see friends.

As my chance to write inches ever closer, my mind and imagination seems to spark into life.
But I mustn't explode onto the paper yet!
I must focus on exams first! :(
To all those others taking exams out there, I wish you bonne chance, good luck!
I will see this blog again very soon after the 18th of June!
M. x
P. S. I just had a look at some of my first posts and I have realised how far I have come! My posts are so much better now!
And that is all down to my readers and fellow bloggers, for teaching me how to do it!
Thanks!
:D M. x

New Blog!

This will probably be my shortest post ever!
Just giving a shout-out to my new diary blog.
Here's the link:
http://ignorantbloggerdiary.blogspot.co.uk/
M. x
P.S. Vote on my poll about what is the best fantasy novel.
I'm V. interested to see the results! :D

From Naivety To The Other Side Of The World

For the Lightning and The Lightning Bug:
http://thewriteandthewrongword.blogspot.co.uk/

Shalo is a busy county, surrounded by prejudices and is despised by all elsewhere on the island of Kendra. It is a city purely run by humans. The poor are treated like dirt and the rich are endlessly privileged while other creatures and races from around the world are frowned upon. Here is a tale in which magic is an ancient mystery - an ability created by genes. This tale is a physical and mental journey from naivety to the other side of the world. An adventure-filled and characteristic novel about growing up, friendship and the homeland. A young girl, Malina, is banished from Shalo, the tightly enclosed land in which she grew up and discovers a whole new world of adventure. With a logical mind, she manages to find her way through seemingly impossible circumstances and develops strength and determination. Upon discovering a new homeland, she decides and manages to fight for its safety, while facing difficult trials of her own. A dark force searches for her in revenge for the past, an unknown reputation of hers is discovered, making her circumstances all the more difficult and, eventually overcome with troubles, she is forced into hiding in the mountains with an ex-oracle and a renowned outlaw. Here, she discovers her full magical abilities and develops it through mind-control and deep intellectual study. While she is safely tucked away inside the mountains, discovering the mysteries of the universe, the dark force grows in strength and power, only one sea away.

(250 words)

A Levels vs. My Life

Hey guys,
sorry I haven't posted in a while or even read or commented on anyone else's blogs for a while.
Today I realised my lack of attendance to the blog, so I've now decided to give in.
A Levels are my life now.
That is all I think about and all I do.
Revise-revise-revise.
I'm sure most of you have been there!
So I am signing off until the 18th of June when I finish everything and I can talk about the two performances just completed that day, the exams I will have finished and my fear/excitement of the change of life that is about to come.
I will also have a chance to properly start my book! Writing, I mean.
I am going to miss this small getaway but I will be back and ready to write!
I may be full of ideas as well, after my play which is set in 1720!


So, for now, fare thee well and may you prosper and keep posting :)
M. x

The Lightning and the Lightning Bug

Thank you so much for putting up my post!
It's really exciting for me coz I'm relatively knew at this :)
Sorry, won't be making a new post for a while - I have a v. important exam tomorrow and there are more coming! :S I will post when I can :)
M. x

18 year old M finds her immaturity.

Recently, I've been feeling very grown-up, being allowed to drink alcohol whenever I like, having very important exams very close by, having my friends drive me around in their cars...but you adults out there have to admit that we are all very juvenile at times...

So here is where my story begins...

The headmaster of my 6th Form College is my RS teacher...
He's very powerful in the school and you just don't get on his bad side. Maybe I was just feeling a bit rebellious today...
Anyways,
Last year, I didn't do so well in one of my exams and he decided that I would retake it. I decided that I wouldn't. He decided that he wasn't happy that I wouldn't so has been trying to convince me otherwise.

He says he knows me well (we usually get along) but he evidently hasn't worked out how stubborn I am yet!

I decided against doing the retake. This is my life. I am 18. I can make my own decisions.
But he won't listen and just keeps going on and on about it.
And today in the lesson, in front of the whole class, this is how the conversation went:

Head: So, M are you going to do the retake?


M: *M roles her eyes* No. I don't want to.

Head: Why?

M: Blah blah blah blah blah. (That's M saying all the reasons why which would take ages to explain and would bore you even if I tried).

Head: Well, I think you're making a mistake!

M: (*getting annoyed*) well I DON'T!

Head: Look, if I didn't think it was a good idea I wouldn't say it.

M: I didn't say you didn't think it was a good idea. I just don't think it'll help me in the slightest.

Head: (*he is known for being obsessed with university. Seems to think that is the only route in life*) It will help you get into University! It will help you get the grades you need!

M: So what? I'll probably have to reapply anyway because I changed my mind about what subject I want to study and, anyway, it will not kill me if I don't get an A.

Head: (*also getting annoyed*) But you might end up getting a C! (*shock horror!!!!!!*)

M: Okay, so I'll get what I deserve. I don't particularly care.

Head: (*eyes widen in complete and utter horror at my words*) Fine. You be stubborn. Good luck with your exam. I won't bring this up again!

So then M got a bit childish and, just coz she knew it would irritate him, she says

GOOD! 

while staring right into his eyes, in a very childish and immature way.

Apparently this was the wrong thing to say but M really didn't give a damn.

YOU DON'T SPEAK TO ME IN THAT WAY! I AM TRYING TO HELP!

The Head shouted.

M just stared into his eyes with a I do not give a damn kinda look while thinking You are not my father! You are not my father! He actually seems to think he is though which M finds kinda weird...

All this shouting made M laugh. Angry shouting from a teacher nearly always does. Even when it is the headmaster.She had to try desperately hard not to make it show in her eyes or to burst out into very loud laughter. Inside, she was squirming with the giggles:

Hehehehe! He shouted! hehehehe He's angry! hehehehe! He can't control his anger! hehehehehe!

M can be very childish at times.

She was meant to be taking this very seriously.

M didn't even say sorry. She just stared at him in the same way until he carried on with the lesson.
Man, M can be very stubborn sometimes!

So, that's my little story of the day!
The argument gave me such a good sense of catharsis that I spent the rest of the day in a very cheerful mood and I still am in a cheerful mood! I should be rude to him more often!!

BGT Final

Yes, I do watch Britain's Got Talent. Well, I only watch the finals...

I just need to get this out of my system...

Why did Pugsey win?? Yes, he's cute and a very clever dog, but seriously?

A dog beat Jonathan Antoine's voice?

What is the world coming to?

Anyone who hasn't heard Jonathan Antione's voice, just check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkQVNDrF0pY 

His voice is just incredible for his age!
My Dad, a professional concert pianist and opera-singer teacher even agreed with me! And Dad really knows his stuff in this area. 

(I might as well give a shout out to my Dad's website in case anyone is interested: http://www.duolevinhancox.co.uk/index.html)

I thought Ryan O'Shaughnessy was going to win, and when it was announced he wasn't in the top three, I was gutted! I love him to bits!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdviedF9iM

Well, now that that's out of my system, I can get some sleep!

So Whose The Techno Freak Now?

For the Lightning and The Lightning Bug:

My older brother has always been known as the one with all of the techno knowledge. When ever a techno-problem arose, we would always go to him. But then he left for the army and it's not so easy to get him to fix things for us over the phone, so I had to step up and help. Now, I can't say i'll ever be as technologically advanced and knowledgeable as he is, but I do know some stuff - like how to find things on a computer, which buttons mean what and so on. But, until the other day, I realised that my older brother had never witnessed this as, when ever he was on an army break, he would be the one we automatically turn to.

So the other day, I found him setting up a new remote control for the TV (our other one is broken).

He asked me,

"What else is there that needs fixing?"

And, without thinking, I started going off on one about the EXT link on the TV and which buttons I usually have to press to make the TV work again and all this complicated stuff that I probably couldn't even name now.

In that long sentenced of mine, I managed to sound exactly like he does when talking to IT friends. Most of the things I said were just words I had learned from seeing them so often, not from an understanding of what they meant. But he must have though I did understand them because in reply, he gave me a strange look, saying 

"WOW. I didn't know you could turn it on, let alone fix it!"

but, being his secretive self, he hid away this shock and carried on as if everything was normal.

It was then that I realised he had never known about my techno skills before.

It kind of made me feel good, that I could prove myself to him! But now I'm wondering whether it made him feel slightly redundant, despite his constant complaining that he's always helping us with the same problems...

M. x