currently feeling chatty and not liking capitals and suffering from writer's block so am going to use this time to set myself a challenge.

the challenge: writing a profile without use of the word 'I'.

and

GO.

can't live without: chocolate, summer, travelling (done europe in an eye-blink, next stop asia- that's the dream, anyway), music and concerts, reading in a sunny corner, trips to the beach, the randomness of my friends, speaking in abbrev (saved me many a nanosecond), movies, british accents, slushies from petrol stations, sushi trains, strawberry milkshakes, my mobile phone (a little sad, hey?), writing, weekends away, thunderstorms, honesty, observing other people's good fashion/style and working out my own, dancing for fun, doodling drawings, nights out that make you forget, good conversation, good humour.

secret talents: baking- esp brownies, just call me the brownie master. also can dance like a loony. this happens mostly in the safety of my own room where music is dictated by me, but sometimes on a dance floor, too. also am very good at coming up with big ideas and abandoning them once they bore me. perhaps this can explain the fact that my last four novel-length stories never got finished. fastest way to kill a story? overanalyse, overcompare, over-spontaneity (i.e. no plan). don't do it kids.

secret/not-so-secret-now dreams: getting published (but only when The Worthy Novel flows hot from my keyboard), moving to london (worried the clouds and rain might get to me, in which case shall live in london during the week, and jet to spain/greece/french chateau on the weekends), being amazingly wealthy to support jetsetting lifestyle and haute couture wardrobe, but having a worthwhile job as well.

all time faves:

(music) U2, coldplay, oasis, the fratellis, the beatles, the arctic monkeys, justin timberlake, michael buble, mgmt, the pigeon detectives, scouting for girls, the kooks, the panics, the fray, paolo nutini, james morrison, lior, jack johnson, maroon 5, thirsty merc, the killers, the postal service, ok go, death cab for cutie, the thrills.

(songs) talk like that- the presets, passenger seat- death cab for cutie, independent women- destiny's child, how to save a life- the fray, sometimes you can't make it on your own- U2, piece of me- britney spears (can't explain it, just dig it).

(movies) breakfast at tiffany's, pride and prejudice (BBC, colin firth, say no more), chocolat, love actually, pirates of the carribean I, notting hill, the old star wars films, hairspray, juno, she's the man, how to steal a million, roman holiday, the motorcycle diaries, the pursuit of happyness, goodnight and goodluck, finding neverland, finding nemo, zoolander, aladdin, batman begins + the dark knight.

(tv shows) the west wing, gilmore girls, gossip girl, will and grace, friends, charmed, how i met your mother, so you think you can dance (US and aus version), rove live (that man has been making me laugh for too many years).

(writers) oscar wilde, jk rowling, georgette heyer, margaret atwood, joanne harris, marcus zusak, geoffery robertson, alexandre dumas, barack obama, shakespeare (the nerdiness becomes apparent).

mid-year revelations

writing on a yellow lined paper makes you feel hardcore, taylor swift deserves more cred for being super freaking AWESOME, sam seaborn is the coolest thing on television (or was), if you have an apple- what you're typing gets reflected on the dock (!!), buses are more complicated than people realise (hypothetically, for example, imagine you didn't know what platform your bus was arriving at, and you end up catching the right bus, but in the wrong direction and then you have to get off further than where you started and you have to trek back through arctic temperatures to the bus platform you think might be the right one, only to realise the shrapnel in your wallet isn't enough to buy you a ticket? see. complicated right.)

and

STOP.

! NEW ! NEW ! NEW !

Been wondering how I'd cast Waiting on the World if it was a movie? What the soundtrack would be? Wonder no more! Now click below.

http://www.freewebs.com/party-in-your-head/

a story to accompany a story

beer, spray cans, and other tools of attraction

People get hit on in weird ways. My friend had a plastic glass chucked at her head. It's hilarious, I had to write a story about it. It's pure fluff and nonsense but you should check it out if you like that kind of thing. I made Saph, the lead, Bengali (Indian) in heritage- as am I myself cos I think there should be more stories with different kinds of girls in leads.

caught in the rain

Discontinued. Begun when I was fourteen, wanted to write about rich kids, and was trying to be deep and meaningful in the whole nature/nurture debate. Don't read unless you're a fan of lost causes. Maybe I am, because despite the plot being non existent and a complete lack of progression in eight or whatever chapters, I took the characters, threw them into a different scenario and wound up with...

waiting on the world

I love this story and I hate it at the same time. Right now the balance is teetering towards the hate side, but I've had an epiphany- that it's usually round about this time in a story that I get middle-of-the-story-itis, and can't write anything because the entire thing seems incred lame. Now that I've become aware of mid-story-itis I'm doing my best not to let it get to me, as I don't want to see another story abandoned, but it's hard.

the danger of sincerity

Actually, I began this as a re-write of the first story I had up here. People probaaaaably don't remember it- but the main thing was that the main guy was pretending to be gay to get the girl he had a crush on to like him. While it was rather popular I had to delete it because it made me cringe SO bad and it was never going to be finished (I regret that, by the way. I don't think deleting is the greatest op cos then you can't see exactly where you started from.) So I decided to breathe life back into that plot, only I ended up writing something completely different, again. Only I think I might love this story more than anything else right now. :) If you haven't read anything of mine and are tossing up whether or not to, I recommend this.

27 October

Yeech, I know I promised a chapter soon which is now way over due, but bear with me, I just got swallowed up in uni/work/study/friends it'll be up soon, promise. Seriously, there's not much left, two-three chapters and an epilogue. And I've decided to keep the chapters short and sweet so that you get quality over quantity (see, I did learn something in high school.) And faster updates.

On a random note- Australians who still watch Idol (do they still exist?)- did you see James do like a semi-acoustic version of Use Somebody? It's so brilliant, my brother was watching it and when I heard it I loved it so much I came running down the stairs to see it and I love it so much I've been listening to it on youtube over and over. I reccomend-

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

much love xxx