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They have a Starbucks in the refectory, literally seven minutes from my house. This is maybe the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Once again, it's been ever so long since my last journal update. Just after I wrote my previous entry I got back into the deviant art swing of things, and I managed to stick with it for most of the summer, but then the new term started at Uni and the business of it all defeated me. I have to savour second year, I think it's going to be the peak of my whole existence - house sharing turns out to be awesome, the modules are so much better (20th Century literature, I mean, how about calling it, "A list of Frankie's favourite books and poems and essays."

In terms of writing, my creative writing group this year is infinitely superior. The other people in it aren't whiny or annoying at all, and quite a few of them are actually talented, the tutor is nice, the stuff we're doing feels important and new. I love the fact that I've never really encountered the whole, writing for the stage and screen malarky before and now I have this ten minute play to show for the term.

Basically, because I loved the characters in Softly, Softly so much, and I wanted to do something really tangible with them, I used the basic story for my final piece (which is to be workshopped this time next week - I'm nervous!). I've simplified it a lot, a ten minute time frame and a 2,500 word limit is not an easy thing to deal with, but I hope I've pulled it off. It's retitled Beast now.

Aside from a few disjointed jottings I haven't really written anything else lately, I should have I know, I feel in a poetic mood at the moment (incidentally, from January my creative writing module is, "The Poem") so maybe something will come of that.

In the meantime, I'd still love an opinion on my final short story from last term, This Rabbit Died Running and the majorly, oddly, out of context Autumn - I just want to know how the third person narrative (which I never EVER use) is looking, if it's working, whether I'm doing okay with dialogue etc, etc.

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Beast

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I know it's shameless but if you give me a helpful or constructive in any way comment I will definitely check out your gallery and do the same, because those are my favourite kind of comments.

I never got around to featuring people in my last journal, but I'd really love to now. Any suggestions or recommendations for prose pieces, or inspiring artwork would be really helpful. Even if it's your own piece and you want to big yourself up, I totally get that. In the meantime I hope everyone is good and happy and excited for Christmas. I'm getting everyone books this year, is that weird? I love getting books for Christmases/ birthdays/ bank holidays/ Wednesdays.

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I haven't written a journal entry in nearly a year. I wasn't even a student when I wrote my last entry and now my first year is over. The abandonment is mainly due to facebook. I've gotten scummier, and lazier and I lost seven or eight pounds, and then gained it again, and now I think I may have lost have couple more but that's only due to it being the end of term and I've run out of all food that isn't jacket potatoes and baked beans, and I'm getting bored of them. My English Course has been very good. Guess what me and Daniel Radcliffe have in common? We both spend all our money on books. But he is one of the richest nineteen year olds in the world, so it probably matters less to him, he's probably not up to his overdraft limit, he probably doesn't need an overdraft. Definitely I'd say.

Okay so I feel like I've had an epiphany lately, but first, my final piece for creative writing is up on here, it's a 2000 word short story, but I don't think I actually managed to reach 2000 words, but no-one seemed to notice, and it's less for you to strain your eyes at so you should check it out, it's called This Rabbit Died Running. Also I uploaded a short prose brain sneeze called Stadium on here a little while ago that I'd quite like feedback on too, I'm more unsure about it, maybe it should be put in scraps? Opinions rule. I don't know if anyone is really interested in Softly, Softly anymore. I'm starting a writing for the stage and screen module in the autumn so I imagine I'll work on it a bit more then!

Back to the ephiphany, a little while ago I wrote Autumn, an extract from something that's hardly been written down at all since I was about thirteen or fourteen and has been in my head for about a decade. I think maybe finally I've found a way it can work and maybe I'm ready to start writing it. I would love opinions on this piece, even though it is ridiculously out of context- I just want to know how the third person narrative (which I never EVER use) is looking, if it's working, whether I'm doing okay with dialogue. And maybe if I submit more in the series (I don't have a title at all), you could help with that too?

I am asking a lot of nobody. It reminds me of that poem, as I was going up the stair...

<sub>This Rabbit Died Running

Stadium

Autumn</sub>

I know it's shameless but if you give me a helpful or constructive in any way comment I will definitely check out your gallery and do the same, because those are my favourite kind of comments.

What a long journal entry for someone who has been awol for so long. OH ALSO. I need to feature new people here, It will most probably be lit pieces so if you have anything good let me know.

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Lately I've been trying to finish off all the loose ends that are floating around in my gallery/ in scraps/ in my notebook/ on random peices of paper somewhere in my house, but I keep getting distracted or busy working or something else I can't think of another excuse but it's always good to list things in groups of threes I hear.

So this right here is a list that I will in all probability never stick to, but isn't it fun to make them.

Scene Two: The Accident for my Softly, Softly, project, which as of right now is finally up and around and ready for reading and advanced critique. I know it's a long'un but please stick with it, I swear it's worth it.

More on Softly, Softly, another extract from it in the style of Break since you all seemed to like that so much. This one's a little more bleak though. Possibly a little melodramatic? I've just submitted it: Sweetheart, so tell me if it is!

I shall give a bit of form to and possibly submit a short story I've been working on called, "Your house is on fire, your children are gone". I will post a link to it on here when I do submit, I'm not sure about this one, the title especially sounds like a bad american daytime soap opera so comments are very welcome.

I have another extract from a project I've not really developed well enough, despite the fact that I've been working on it since I was about twelve, it's probably the best example of those characters I have though and I'd love for people to read, I think it'll simply be called "Autumn" and again, link to follow, comments welcome.

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There is a lot of highly charged stuff in the air at the moment. This time on saturday I will have taken (and probably failed, who are we kidding, my hand eye co-ordination is terrible) my driving test, and I have just left the school I've been going to for seven years, and I have my a levels starting in a week or so which I have to pass if I'm going to uni, which will be miles away from the only home I've ever had, and I will know nobody. Oh and it's a creative writing course and despite the fact that I have only ever shown really close friends and people online my writing I'll have to show everyone in my seminar group something every fortnight and they will write mean comments on it and destroy my soul.

But it's all good, heart attack inducing fun. Wait another AND, I have to finish Softly, Softly. Not that thats a chore but its hard when there is a deadline.

BUT THERE IS GOOD NEWS. So I got a daily deviation. Sorry. What? The holy grail of deviant art? What?


So, being cliche and saying thankyou to the multitudes of people who commented and favourited the piece in question; Break. And I would mainly like to say a big uber gargantuum I LOVE YOU THANKS SO MUCH to ^LadyLincoln, who has always been so sweet and so supportive to me on here. She always gives the wisest advice, she writes the most beautiful and moving stories, she really does so much for literature on deviant art (let's face it, it's not always taken as seriously as the other art forms) and I'm pretty sure it's thanks to her that I got this daily deviation, so everyone who is reading this head over to her place and shower her with the praise she deserves yup?

Speaking of people you should had on over to, my good buddy ~beaulivres has just started uploading things to his little deviant art account and some of it is amazing, he's drawn my beautiful sister, for example, and his visual writing thingy Twelve Seconds of Light is actually amazing so. Go. Feast your mind.

And Feast your eyes, as ever on ~OurConspiracy-x, just fantastic pictures really. AND

So that's all I have to say for now, oh my gosh and thank you again, wish me luck for all the exams/tests/deadlines and if you have nothing better to do then comments and critique are always fun, especially on Softly, Softly, it being an ongoing project and all.

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Apologies for the last journal thing maybe? What's the word, retraction. And yesss I'm sorry guys.

I've changed my mind



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