tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39644881795648271742024-02-07T12:12:34.690+00:00My Imagination on PaperThoughts, short stories and booksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276452164786056461noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964488179564827174.post-30886937613802216632016-03-20T12:42:00.001+00:002016-03-20T12:42:09.211+00:00My Imagination on Paper, an end; a beginning<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">My Imagination on Paper has run its course. It is being dissolved, it is merging, and yet it will grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Having two blogs is quite strange. The main idea behind it was so I could separate my interests in order to discuss them on two social platforms. I didn’t create two blogs for people with different interests to look at either one or the other. I didn’t create two blogs because I feared people would think my blog covered too many topics. I didn’t create two blogs for anyone but myself, and I have never cared about what anyone else thought of me having two blogs. But I created two blogs for a very simple, yet slightly strange reason. I like the order, the categories, the segregation of interests. The labels, the themes, the topics, all separated into two. Almost giving myself a dual identity online, because writing about so many topics on my blog created a minefield that I was afraid of. As if writing about such a wide range of things and keeping it all in one place was somehow very tempestuous in my mind, and so the only logical solution was to separate, divide, half. Creating to blogs; the creative, and the introvert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But there were crossovers. Where does travel fit in for example – beauty, fashion and lifestyle, or thoughts, short stories and books? One blog is much more developed than the other, and has a bigger audience, how on earth do I get the other blog to catch up? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Having two blogs has been great. I like separating my thoughts into two different sides, and although it satisfies my need for order and neatness, it isn’t logical and the separation is only going to get bigger and bigger to create some sort of a gap that I won’t know how to deal with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So the solution, two becomes one. My Imagination on Paper will still be up on the internet and none of my previous blog posts will be deleted. However from now on, I will only be posting on Paint the Roses Red; and here is where things will get shaken up a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m going to start with a new design, a new blogger button and a new blog title header. Then I’m going to move onto the content. Like My Imagination on Paper, no previous posts will be taken down, but from now on I will be writing differently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will write about whatever I want to. I’m not going to conform to write within the limits of certain genres, topics or styles. I will write about anything I wish to. I have never really paid much attention to my audience, or lack thereof, and I don’t plan on starting to do so. If the readers of my blog don’t like my posts about books, there is no obligation to read them. If my readers don’t like this little shake up, then there are plenty other blogs worth reading instead of mine. I’m going to do what I want, and hopefully, from there I will start to gain an audience who appreciate that and don’t mind that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As for a blogging schedule… I don’t know yet. I have always followed one and I have always found it easy to follow one, but I don’t want to fall into the trap of publishing blog posts because I feel I have to because it’s a Sunday and I haven’t posted all week. I don’t want to blog for the sake of it and I don’t want to feel pressured into publishing a certain number of blog posts each month. However at the same time, what if I naturally slip into a makeshift schedule, as I have always followed one and can’t tear myself away from it. I’m also aware that blogs tend to get more traffic if the blog follows a schedule, or at least, publishes blog posts regularly, and although I don’t care about page views, it would be nice if more people could read my blog, as from now on I plan to only publish what I have worked hard on and what I am really passionate about. So I don’t know yet. And it’s bugging me that I don’t know. But if you have an idea, please comment because I don’t like not knowing and it’s starting to drive me up the wall…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So that’s the update. My Imagination on Paper is going to merge with Paint the Roses Red to become one blog, rather than two. But Paint the Roses Red will from now on consist of anything and everything I want it to, because although it doesn’t have much direction, I don’t want it to be bound by blogging convention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276452164786056461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964488179564827174.post-8854939868015500622015-10-25T10:34:00.003+00:002015-10-25T10:34:32.602+00:00Pitied, feared and avoided<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“They say he was disturbed – someone to be pitied, feared
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But at the end of the day he was still human. He just wore
his demons on his sleeve, where some like to wear their heart. His face was of
a wretched inky misery, and his eyes were of a depth one could get lost in,
only to never return. The silence of the words he didn’t say blared out from
his soul and his body hung loose as if it were drawn out; as if life had such
all the living out of him. His skin a grey ashen, heavy-looking, solemn. His
fingers thin, matching his silhouetted body. His hair, a musky black, messy,
unkempt. No one should have to hold the memories he does, the memories that are
imprinted into his skull, the memories that he cannot escape from. No one
should have to experience the things he did, the things he lived through, when
there was still life left in him. No one should have to hold themselves up the
way he does, as if his thin body weighs a hundred stone, and he has lost the
energy to hold it up right. No one should live the way does, because he isn’t
really living, his life was taken away from him a long time ago. They say he
was disturbed – someone to be pitied, feared and avoided. But at the end of the
day he was still human. He just surrendered a long time ago, and no part of him
could be retrieved. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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is to be at war. To write a word is to be in the midst of battle. To write a
page is to be relentless. War doesn’t solve anything, it is no more meaningful
than words on a page. But words can change people. Words have the mystical
power to kill a person within a second. So can war. Words can be seen as a
jumble of 26 letters. War can be seen as a fight for the better race. Life is
up to interpretation. One can gain the same from a word than the world can from
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<b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">Sang Sorenson used to be the invisible girl in class. As a new student to Ashley Waters High School, Sang hopes that her new friends will be the change she’s been craving and will make fitting in a breeze.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">But Academy students aren’t there to take it easy. The high school is overcrowded and rife with violence. When fights begin, Sang will uncover the true reason the boys traded in their private school life for a public one. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">This year, Sang will no longer be invisible. This year, Sang is a target.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">The principal and vice principal are hot to take Sang down, and her own mother is determined to entrap Sang forever in her belief that the safest place to be is in the shadows. Despite this, Nathan, Luke, Kota, North, Silas, Victor, and Gabriel will discover Sang’s unyielding loyalty.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">And they will sorely need it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">The Academy, supremely influential.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Following the leader - <i>If you haven't read the first book, you won't understand this book. It carries straight on from where the first book left off, there's not much introduction so you really would have had to read the first book in order to grasp an understanding of this one.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unusual classmates - <i>I'm really interested in North's past and character, I really like how he's more present in this chapter as he's probably one of my favourite characters. Mr Blackbourne however, I really dislike, I find him creepy and what 19 year old has a job as a music teacher?! It all seems a little strange and too unrealistic.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Hungry - <i>Not much happens in this chapter, it just sort of follow their day at school, I'm not really sure when a proper </i></span><i><span style="color: #222222;">story-line</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> will come in but not much has happened so far. Mr McCoy is a really odd character though, I'm not really sure what I think of him.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Flirting - <i>So now Dr. Green is supposedly 19?! Teachers can't be that young..! And his </i></span><i><span style="color: #222222;">behaviour</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> towards Sang - a student?! Dr. Green does not seem like a teacher and he certainly isn't acting like one. And how can he possibly be a doctor..?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Painful secrets - <i>Okay. I'm 1/4 of the way through the book and I'm pretty sure I'm getting some plot line here, so that's pretty fun. I'm really intrigued by what goes on in this chapter - more mystery is created about the Academy and Sang starts to ask the questions she's been keeping to herself. In this chapter Sang also questions herself which is really upsetting to see, her family is so negative around her that it's sad to see her starting to think the same way and I feel like she's starting to doubt who she is. This is probably the best chapter of the book so far :)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Deeper - <i>Okay, now I'm really curious about the Academy. I noticed this in the last book but C.L. Stone is really good at creating suspense and curiosity in the reader which is exactly what he achieved with this chapter. This chapter may have been one of the shortest but it was really able to create a lot of mystery surrounding the boys and the Academy.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No Longer Invisible - <i>I feel like the majority of the chapter was just filler, but I really liked some of the description towards the end of the chapter.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever you need - <i>This chapter has really hooked me into reading more. Sang has finally been let in a little more and I feel like the mystery surrounding The Academy is starting to be revealed.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Tooth and Nail - <i>A lot happens in this chapter and it really kept me hooked. Sang gets involved in a huge fight and really tries to stand up for herself. What I didn't like about this was that in the end she couldn't stand up for herself. The guys had to come in and save the day. Which admittedly is fine, Sang has no real experience of the outside world, how was she supposed to know what to do!? But it just frustrates me that it seems she can't do anything for herself.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I guess I'm just used to reading books with strong female leads who tend to be trained in kickboxing, and advanced sciences (Ally Carter in looking at you).</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Inappropriate - <i>I feel like most of this was just a filler chapter, so it was quite boring to read. Mr. McCoy did raise some suspicion however, and I'm interested to see how the Academy works around him and what he's up to.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of Us - <i>Sang is really being let into the group now, and although she is incredibly dependent on them it's still nice to see her with a large circle of friends.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Change of Plans - <i>Finally I can see a story line! Sang is going to get the chance to be more independent and she's been let into the Academy and now knows a little more. I think I'm finally starting to warm up to her character now that she's been given the opportunity to be more independent and limit her own vulnerability.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bait -<i> Sang really takes initiative when she's talking with her sister, I feel like she's becoming more confident and becoming a stronger character. I feel like the story is really progressing, I just wished this would have happened earlier in the book as it took so long for a plot line to show.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alone - <i>Sang's character is becoming a lot more stronger, which is great because I hate to see such weak and helpless female protagonists. This chapter's really sweet and I really like the way the story is heading.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday Fall - <i>Friday </i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Fall is vicious. I don't know what kind of school they go to, but it has messed up traditions. This chapter really made me proud of Sang, she fell from a two story building and then went back up to fight those who threw her off the balcony. - Finally she's showing some initiative and strength! </i></span><br />
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<b><i>"Death would have been gentler."</i></b></div>
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<b><i>"Anything hurt?"</i></b></div>
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<b><i>"She had the power to bring everything he'd worked for down with one single look. Only she didn't know she had that ability, and that made her even more dangerous."</i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">9) Write more, just write everything down, and when you have no more to write, keep writing. Oh and try to read more too - always have a book on the go, and make time for reading and de-stressing!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10) Stay rested, stay hydrated, and stay cheerful; attitude is everything. Besides, there is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Year 11 is fast approaching as on the 7th of September I will be forced to return to the prison that most call school. However I have been scheming and planning (as usual), and I have come up with an escape plan.</span></div>
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This step is fairly straight forward, you will need a black duffel bag, or a body-bag will do - depending on what type of desperate teenager you are, and you will need to pack the following things -</div>
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- Cadbury's animal crackers, for the journey</div>
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- 3 Galaxy chocolate bars - one for you and two for me.</div>
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- A onesie, because who doesn't like footsie pajamas?!</div>
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- A black coat, in case it gets a little nippy outside.</div>
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For this step you will need equip yourself with the following attire, otherwise you simply won't fit the part.</div>
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- A black leather catsuit - or just black leggings and a top but you will have to accept the fact that you won't look as cool...</div>
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- Black Nike trainers - the ones that all the Chavs wear - you know the ones.</div>
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- Black eyeliner - don't just buy it, actually put it on, so that you look fancy and mysterious.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Move out. Go, go, go!</span></span></div>
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We will leave London at 0855 and will arrive in Siberia at 0500 hours. Then we will trek 3 hours North. Once we reach 'Keptin' we will head West for 1km, until we reach the 'River Mekele.' By the side of the river there is a steel plate located on the ground beneath the snow covering it. The latch opens from the side and leads to a ladder which takes you down to an underground war bunker situated under the river. This will be our base for the foreseeable future.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remain in the bunker and avoid all human contact.</span></span></div>
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This step is also quite self explanatory. The objective is so remove yourself from civilization. Set your responsibilities aside, forget that year 11 is fast approaching and you have exams to take. No one can find you, those exams are no longer a threat to your happiness. They are gone. And as long as you don't return, they won't return.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Regroup.</span></span></div>
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At the moment, you are a lone wolf; travelling to find your pack.</div>
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This is the stage where you find said pack.</div>
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We shall meet in Orto-Surt, which is 2 hours North-East of Keptin. Here we will create further plans to regroup and will look into any paper-trails we have unintentionally created.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Year 11 is no more, your past life of exam stress is no more that a haze in the distance, you have escaped and you can start your new life now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the escape plan, and you have escaped.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I shall meet you at stage five to regroup. We shall start our new lives together as a community of extremely isolated and disheveled teenagers, but hey, at least we will have escaped the looming threat of year 11...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Scenario 1 – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You’re feeling creative, so
naturally you take your place at your desk, laptop at the ready with a fresh
word document open. The curser blinks warily at you, waiting for a sudden jolt
of energy to push it along the line you are about to write. But nothing
happens. The curser blinks patiently; you tap your finger on the desk,
impatiently. Nothing happens; your ideas never existed in the first place, what
made you think you could create them now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Scenario 2 – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You have an idea. In fact, you
have many. You run up the stairs two at a time, sit down at your squeaking
chair. Your laptop flies open and a new word document is opened. The curser blinks.
You look down at your hands, your fingertips are moving slightly with
anticipation. But nothing happens. After a while, you look at your word
document. You have half a sentence and an emotion. Everything’s gone. The
curser blinks, still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Scenario 3 – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The curser blinks, watching you.
It has done for almost three hours now. But you don’t notice, for your eyes
have blurred and the pixels on your laptop screen have started to merge and
suddenly your consciousness kicks itself and you become aware, again, of the
words you still haven’t yet written. The curser blinks. Again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In one of these scenarios,
possibly, on a rare occasion, something different might occur. You might start
typing, your long fingers subconsciously moving across the keyboard, forming words
you haven’t yet processed in your mind. They work ahead of you, with your mind
trying to catch up. Words are typed to create sentences. And then those whole sentences
bunch together to create paragraphs. The gears of your mind whirring, your
fingers rapidly moving, black pixels being splashed across the once lifeless
page; creating. Spilling ink across the page, creating a mark that stains the
page with meaning. You take a breath and pause. And you read over what you have
written, secretly hoping, pleading, that your words were not just your breath
of thought, hoping that your words breathe meaning, allow the reader to
disappear from their physical existence for a short while. The curser blinks
while you read. Finally, you’ve turned blood into ink.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This summer I went on holiday to Sicily.</div>
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After finally getting round to downloading the photos off my camera, I thought I would create a photo diary of the holiday. It was a lovely week and Sicily is such an incredible place; the weather was lovely as was the food and the people! xx</div>
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In January I started the 365k365day challenge. The idea is that everyday you write 1000 words; so that by the end of the year, you've written 365,000 words. When included into the daily routine, it creates a forced creativity. Even if what you write is rubbish, at least you're writing something. Even though I knew I could never write 1000 words a day, I liked the challenge's principle of writing daily.</div>
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In June I created my <a href="http://my-imagination-on-paper.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/a-summer-reading-list.html" target="_blank">Summer Reading List</a>. It's August now, and I haven't read any of those books. In fact, I still haven't finished reading the book I started in May! Last summer I read ten books.</div>
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Like I said, I haven't been reading.</div>
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I haven't been doing anything creative.</div>
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I like to make jewellery, I like to play the violin, I like to paint pretty nail art designs on fake nails, I like to read, I like to write, I like photography. Which of those things have I done this summer? None of them. My creativity has blown out the window, I don't have the will to do anything. Writing seems like an old pastime rather than a much needed form of self-expression. I still haven't read past chapter 17...</div>
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All I want to do is sit in bed all day, watching Netflix, avoiding human contact, escaping the real world. Forgetting that I have a summer to experience...</div>
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My thoughts are scrambled, as are my words. I have no short stories to publish, I have no books to review. What was supposed to be a summer full of creativity and new projects has morphed into something very bland. As I said to a friend the other day, I feel like stagnant pond water; doing nothing; with no true purpose...</div>
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A few days ago I visited a small, family owned, honey factory in Sicily near Mount. Etna. I didn't just come to Sicily for honey, I'm actually on holiday at the moment, but anyways...</div>
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The company sells freshly made honey, which they allow you to taste. They offer a wide range of products including honey with creams, honey sweets, honey biscuits, pure bee pollen granules and cosmetics including lip balms, creams and soaps. My favourite honeys were the honey with lemon and orange, and the 'honey with cream' with melon. </div>
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As well as selling honey, the company also sells spices, pesto, olive oils, wines and liquors.</div>
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Visiting the factory was so interesting, and being able to taste the different honeys was a wonderful experience! It was also lovely to see one of the 750 beehives the company owns (see above). They keep one of the beehives by the factory for people to see and then they dot the rest of the beehives around the volcano and the other nearby areas where there are flowers available for the bees to pollinate. </div>
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After a lot of taste testing I bought two jars of honey; Miele di Arancio (Orange Honey) and Miele Di Limone (Lemon Honey). I also bought some honey biscuits called Fogile Mandorlate and a honey spoon!</div>
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I was also given a little leaflet (see below) to tell me what health benefits come from eating the honey. For example, the Miele di Arancio (orange honey) is <i>relaxing and tonic. Sedative suitable for people who suffer from nervousness and anxiety. Against insomnia and headache.</i></div>
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What really makes this business unique is that they tell you exactly what is in the fresh honey you're tasting and they show you exactly how it's made. The honey isn't mass produced and you are able to see how well kept the bees are as the people who own the business understand how important bees are and treat them with care. </div>
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Visiting the small factory was a wonderful experience and is was so lovely to taste freshly made Sicilian honey! You can also ship overseas which is definitely what I'll be doing once I've finished my honey!</div>
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A few weekends ago, I was in Dorset. Dorset; the little county in South West England on the English Channel Coast. Home to Poole Harbour; the second largest natural harbour in the world, after Sydney, of course. </div>
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I went with my school's chamber orchestra and barbershop choir for a mini music tour. It consisted of busking on Brownsea Island for the National Trust, eating fish and chips, swimming in the sea *but <i>only up to our knees</i> of course, because otherwise the risk assessment would be oh so much hassle,* buying hula hoops in Co-op and buying lots and lots of sweets. Oh, we also performed in the Christchurch Priory which happens to have the longest nave in the country, don'tcha know. </div>
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The weekend was lovely, as was the weather, although I believe my thighs felt very violated by the sun *should've worn factor 50*...</div>
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The trip was certainly one of the strangest music tours I have ever been on; with honking the mini bus horn every time we passed a road sign, to getting everyone on the bus to call their parents Barbara for an evening. Even to prank calling the phone number on the back of an orange coach, claiming that the driver was a long lost uncle, and then calling the other mini bus to say that we are following said coach, and not to follow us because we are going wherever that long lost uncle is going. And having them believe us due to fake crying and several phone calls. And lunging. There was a lot of lunging... </div>
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In a nutshell, Dorset was lovely and I had an amazing time. And I took a lot of photos which are now being published on this small space on the internet. And I want to go back to Dorset and I want to find out if the coach company ever called back. I also want to warn you that if you are staying in a Travelodge; the breakfast boxes aren't as nice as they sound...</div>
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The deafening silence washed over her like a wave washes over the sand on a beach. She looked out over the rocky cliff edge and saw the trail of death that the silence had left behind.</div>
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There was a gentle and comforting breeze floating across the land; yet no whistling or low howling could be heard from the tranquil force.<br />
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As she looked down from the cliff she noticed the innocent layer of cyanide-looking wispy fog, almost kissing the land with its touch. She saw the misty vapour begin to rise with the contradicting air masses. As a wretched panic took over her whirring mind she turned to run, all too aware of what the silent poison could do. </div>
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She ran inland as the fog crept up behind her as if watching, waiting, savouring her fright. </div>
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The wind had picked up and its sharp edges started to whip at her sides. Her breath caught as she sensed the movement behind her. The force suddenly surging towards her like an uncontrollable tsunami.</div>
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It first pulled at her feet, dragging her down. She gasped as she fell, inhaling the death that was looming around her. It recklessly pierced at her lungs, burning her throat on its journey as if a shot of vinegar was scorching away what voice she had left. The pain stabbed through her lifeless body as the sword of sacrifice pierced her trembling heart. </div>
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She screamed out in torture but the silent hallowing bellow from her surroundings was too powerful to let her cry escape.</div>
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She lay, motionless, as her soul had been engulfed by the silence.</div>
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Her lifeless body lay still as the deafening silence washed over her, like a wave washes over the sand on a beach.</div>
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At last, she was silenced.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">After being told that I would love this series as I love Ally Carter's novels, I decided to give the first book a go as it was free on iBooks. Due to it being free my expectations were very low; I had never heard of the author, the number of protagonists seemed incredibly high and the different book covers made the books appear to be slightly more chick-lit than what I usually go for. However, it was free and I was told I would love it; and I did.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">More books need dogs featured in them. A lot of books seem to lack a lot of nature and animals and wildlife. Oh my gosh, Max seems so cute! I love dogs! I really want a puppy...</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">Also, why on earth is she going home with a stranger? Did her mother teach her nothing? Why is she running away? Does she want someone to find her? Oh my gosh, I need to read more!!!</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">Why can't more people be like Kota?</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">I mean seriously, the world needs more people like Kota!</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">If only forming friendships was that easy... If only trusting people was that easy...</span></i></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">I need me a Kota.</span></i></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">However, on the other hand, what in the name of lime cheesecake is Sang thinking?! She needs to sort out her head, breaking into a house in the middle of the night isn't going to be fun and games and she didn't even think about whether or not there were already people in there! Sang, sort yourself out por favor!</span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">Sang's mother... I want to know more about her, she seems so caged up...</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">Why can't all people be like Kota and Victor?</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">Why was Sang so desperate to leave her house the night before?</span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">Sang's mother is a psychopath, why torture your daughter for a phone call?! Sang and her sister need to get out, they need to get out of that horrible place.</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">I thought Sang's mother was just weak and couldn't go outside but she's evil and abusive, and Sang needs to leave.</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">OH MY GOSH WHY ARE ALL THE GUYS IN THIS BOOK SO PERFECT WHY CAN'T THIS BE REAL LIFE?!</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">This book is so much better than I expected.</span></i></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i>How do they have so much money? How come Kota seems to be leader of the group? What was all that about Blackbourne?! They all seem really lovely but there are these occasional suspicious moments that are slightly odd... I can't wait to read more of the book though.</i></span></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">How many more main characters are there going to be? I think we're on 6 boys at the moment? I have no idea what each one looks like or who said what in the last chapter! I can't remember who did what as they all just merge together!</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">At the moment I'm shipping Sang and Nathan or Sang and Silas, Kota is also high up on the list but I'm not too sure.</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">How many guys are there?! And what are they hiding? How come some of them are busy all day 'training'? I really want to know more about them!</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">North seems a little different from the rest of them. He seems a little reluctant to accept Sang into the group. Is he just a tad moody, or is their a reason behind it?</span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">How old is Dr. Green? Why do the boys need to tail her sister and watch Sang? The school can't possibly be that dangerous!</span></i></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">Mr Blackbourne is really mysterious and kind of creepy, what even is the academy and why is it so important everything is kept classified?!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">Finally the guys actually open up to Sang! Well, it's more Kota than anything, but still. They put her through so much when it would have been so much easier just to tell her the truth!</span></i></span></div>
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<b><i>"I dreamed about a fire in a house I didn't recognize. I was running to find a door, knowing someone was chasing me but I couldn't see his face. I didn't want him to find me. I didn't want to burn."</i></b></span><br />
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Summer has raced towards us from over the horizon and I have books to be reading. However unfortunately I also have a not so excellent education to receive (cheers Gove) as well as exams to prepare for and instruments to play and concerts to rehearse for and a life to life. But fear ye not, because as soon as the summer holidays roll around I will be on it with the reading. </div>
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In preparation for my delightful summer planned full of the written work and spilled ink, I thought I would share with you a few books that have made it onto my Summer Reading List this year.</div>
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I'm aware this isn't the first book in the series but this is the only book of hers which I own a physical copy of. I'm hoping to fill my summery days with Bridget Jones this year, in the hope to learn from her mistakes as I will be too busy reading about them to make those mistakes myself.</div>
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I've heard a lot of good things about this book but I've never given it a second thought until now. It has won the odd prize and has been nominated for quite a few thingameedoodahs so I suppose it's worth giving it a go. </div>
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I have owned this book for a good 6 months but I have been saving it for the summer as I seem to save all Rainbow Rowell's books for the summer. It has become a sort of tradition.. Last year I read Eleanor & Park which emotionally paralyzed me for at least a week and a half after I had finished reading, so I have very high expectations for Fangirl.</div>
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Again, I've owned this book for so long and I have heard so much about it but I just haven't gotten round to reading it! I really like the idea behind the plot; that all of a sudden everyone can hear everyone's thoughts and suddenly all privacy is swiped away, so I am really looking forward to giving this a go! </div>
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Ally Carter, my love. I have just started reading this and I am currently on Chapter 5, however I am so busy at the moment that I have hardly any time to read! But as soon as exams are over I am going to strut my way to the library with this book in my hand and fall into the reality of Grace who lives on Embassy Row, because you know, she's the granddaughter of the American Ambassador; casual.</div>
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I also want to read the entire Ghost Bird series by C.L. Stone this summer but I am going to by the eBooks so I don't end up bankrupt by July. I also have about 100 books I want to read on my Goodreads page, so I don't think I will be short of books to read for a little while! But if you have any book recommendations then please let me know because as you can probably tell, I love a good book!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276452164786056461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964488179564827174.post-7995089628698070222015-05-26T09:00:00.000+01:002015-08-07T17:41:57.558+01:00A Small Web of Lies<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’ve painted a picture for all to see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s true to them but not to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I paint with deceit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But my heart seldom cries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My own self defeat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From my small</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">web of lies”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I only feel like myself when I am alone, because only I know
who I am and only I know what I think. I only feel like myself when no one is
telling me about myself; who I should be, what I should’ve done, how I should
progress. I only feel like myself when I escape from the world, because this
world doesn’t know me. This world only knows what I want it to. Because there
are some things I don’t say, some things I don’t dare let out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">My thoughts are kept to myself. My mind is
withdrawn from the world. Because only I will understand and not confuse by my
thoughts and my being. No one has to know. Invisible. Blind.</span></div>
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I love books; I always have.</div>
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A short time ago, I was clearing out some old boxes, when I came across a selection of the books that I read and fell in love with as a child. As I am now much older, I feel comfortable with sending them on, whether that be to a relative or a good ol' charity shop. Any who, before I send these books on their way, I thought I would snap a few photos and tell you what they meant to me when I was younger.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This was the first book I could recite. I still know all the words to this day!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This was the book, that made me fall in love with books.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This was, and still is, my all time favourite book (along with Through The Looking Glass, of course!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This book taught me the word 'utterly' </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This was the first book I never finished but absolutely loved</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This was the first book I read all by myself without any help! At the ripe old age of 5</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This book gave me my passion for writing</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This book gave me most of the confidence that I still have to this day</span></td></tr>
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Apologies for not uploading this on Sunday, this past weekend has been incredibly busy and I couldn't find the time to sit down and blog. However here I am, sitting back at my laptop, a few days late, trying to write the post I had intended to write on Sunday.</div>
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I have been thinking a lot about running lately. Not the physical act of moving away, but more the psychological aspect of leaving. </div>
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It's almost cliche now, to say that if something or someone is hurting you then just leave, but it's cliche because it's true. A short while ago I wrote a list of things that made me happy. I then wrote a list of things I have to do every day, for example homework, shower etc. The two lists were very different. The majority of what made me happy wasn't what I would do on a daily basis. So I decided to make a few adjustments, to include what makes me happy in my every day life, and to remove what doesn't make me happy. It's the idea of running free and doing what makes you happy. It's the idea of not being held back my commitments or things you hate doing. The idea is that to be happy, you have to do what you enjoy; which is why I have tried to incorporate more of what makes me happy into my daily life.</div>
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A short while ago, I boarded a ferry and sailed over to Calais in Northern France. I then spent the next few days sitting on a coach going between Belgium and France visiting World War 1 cemetery's, memorials, battlefields and museums. It was a truly eye-opening trip and one that I will never forget.</div>
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This story begins with a visit to the magnificent Tyne Cot Cemetery. Standing near the entrance, I saw the Northumberland Fusiliers memorial. My Great Uncle's name was not engraved into it.</div>
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I realized that if his name was not on the memorial, his body must have been recovered. So a dear friend of mine and I headed to the cemetery records in search of his name. After a short while we found it and were able to note down the location of his grave.</div>
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Unfortunately, my time at the cemetery was very limited and I was unable to locate his grave. However I now know its rough location and the knowledge that his body was recovered gave me a lot of closure which was very much needed.</div>
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I intend to go back and visit the cemetery and discover his grave so that I can pay my respects and leave a British Legion Cross of Remembrance. However, for now, there is a British Legion Cross perched in front of the Northumberland Fusiliers memorial, with a little message from myself written on it.</div>
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Witnessing so many cemetery's including those of German soldiers who lost their lives made me feel very numb to the war which intended to end all wars. I feel I have returned to Britain having had a bit of a reality check and feel that I have got my priorities a little straighter now.</div>
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(Apologies for posting this late! I got back from Belgium late last night and was way to tired to flick through my Ally Carter books! Sorry!)</div>
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Ally Carter is one of my all time favourite authors. As I love her books so much, I thought I would share some of my favourite quotes from her books. Most of these I have liked on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16305073-ellen" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> if you want to find them there; others I have flicked through and found myself. Enjoy!</div>
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"Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth." - Heist Society<br />
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"Time, the greatest thief of all." - Heist Society<br />
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"Pretend and it will be true." - Heist Society</div>
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"I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out." - Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover</div>
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"Where did you go? When you were looking for me?"</div>
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"Crazy. I went crazy." - Out of Sight, Out of Time</div>
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"...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies)." - Only the Good Spy Young</div>
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"Sometimes people run... to see if you'll come after them." - Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover</div>
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"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth." - Heist Society</div>
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"I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me." - Uncommon Criminals</div>
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"Hiding is for amateurs." - Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover</div>
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"And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin." - Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover</div>
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There are, of course, many other quotes and snippets from the books that I absolutely adore, however for now, these are just a few that I picked out.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276452164786056461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964488179564827174.post-11077187122950290362015-03-08T12:14:00.002+00:002015-08-07T17:41:35.151+01:00Rape Culture<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>*Disclaimer: this poem is supposed to highlight the distorted rape culture that we live in. I am not, in anyway promoting rape, I am simply highlighting how rape <b>can </b>be perceived in today's messed up society*</i><br />
<i>* HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!*</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rape culture, safe culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What’s the difference?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s the norm to be approached<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the middle of the street<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">By a person you don’t know<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">And don’t want to meet<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Waiting for the bus<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the age of eleven<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Taught us all<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">An important lesson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">That it’s okay to be viewed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">As an object or item<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because we’re not really human<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re just sexualised women<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">But we’re not really objects<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re people growing up<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Where rape is the norm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">And abuse is expected<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">That person who harassed you<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the middle of the street<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Confused you, and scared you<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">And that’s okay, you see<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because who really cares<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">When it happens to everyone<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because rape culture is a norm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">That’s what we’re taught to believe<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">So maybe that person did harass me on the street<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I </span>didn't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> get a bruise<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I can’t really please</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">*Disclaimer - please don't compare my first draft with someone else's final copy, otherwise I dare you to do better - please don't use/edit my work without my express permission and please don't share it without it being </span>credited<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and sourced back to me - this 'story' is fictional - I know it's not perfect, it was never supposed to be*</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That’s what happens when you get your heart broken. You
become paralyzed. It takes years to build up trust but only a second to break
it. Her heart was shattered, each shard piercing her with every breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She never understood before, when others hearts were broken.
She said that that’s what happens with love, it breaks you. And she would
always laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now she gasped for air forgetting how to breathe and wanting
to scream because the taste of your mouth was so perfect but then so poisonous
and wretched. All she tastes in her mouth is acid, all she feels is the
mind-numbing pain that you caused, that you created because you could. Because
you didn't even care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She lay in bed for hours, trying to gain the strength to
move. It never came to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Four months on and she can’t remember what it feels like to
not be haunted by you. Tainted by you. Shattered by you. She says she was
young, and unsure of what love even was back then. But she knows now. She knew
from the instant you left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘I’ll hate you someday’ she silently screams to herself as
she lies on her bed without you. Knowing that it’s better without you. But not
feeling it yet without you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She questions why she ever loved you every day since. She
says she doesn't anymore. They all know that’s a lie. She loves you because you
made time go by, because you said you didn't know why but just knew that
together you were the perfect kind of trouble. She loves you and with that love
she consumes you and it makes her sick, sick with your bitter lies and the
burning fights and the pain you caused her that should put you behind bars. You
deserve to be behind bars. But they would never be strong enough because the
pain would still seep through into her peeling skin with your lies tattooed
onto her arms permanently imprinted on the shards of shattered heart that stain
her body with blood. The blood that you caused to seep out of her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If loving you kills her then just know that she was ready to
die the day you said hello. We love the things that kill us. She thought it
would be a cigarette burn but you were a forest fire and you burnt her with
bleach from the inside out. Your words soaring through her like wildfire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">That’s what happens when you get your heart broken. You
become paralyzed. She’ll hate you someday.</span><br />
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Oh, look! I've done it yet again! You have once more, been completely bamboozled by my extensive shameless promotions and all that jazz!</div>
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Any who, today I want to talk about my other blog; <a href="http://paintalltherosesred.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Paint The Roses Red</a>. It's a tad older than this one and it's where I write about slightly different things. <a href="http://paintalltherosesred.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Paint The Roses Red</a> has been around since the Middle Ages i.e October 2013 and is where I write about beauty, fashion and lifestyle of a sort. I post over there on the 1st and 3rd week of every month. And there we go again with the 'over there' what I call pathetic joke! You'd know about that too if you'd read my latest Paint The Roses Red post.. Tut tut.. </div>
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So this year I have pledged on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16305073-ellen" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> that I will read 25 books!</div>
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Last year I was able to read 26 books and this year I want to set myself a similar target.<br />
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Now this is the point where I would usually show you what books I want to read, but my TBR list currently stands at over 100 books... So instead I thought I would show you some of the books I received for Christmas as well as a few of the books I have recently purchased that I will <i>most likely </i>read this year!</div>
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What would you do if everyone could hear your thoughts? Your best friend. Your worst enemy. Your secret crush. No secrets. No privacy. No escape. Sounds like your worst nightmare, right? We should know. It happened to us.</div>
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Frankie Landau-Banks attends one of the most privileged school in the country. She is popular, cute and funny. Her main preoccupation is the gorgeous Matthew Livingston. But that's not all there is to Frankie. She's also smart. Then Frankie discovers Matthew has been keeping secrets from her. What will she do to get even? How far will she go? It's up to Frankie... </div>
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Having a permanent base in Manhattan has its pros and cons for seventeen-year-old safe-cracker Maggie Silver. On hiatus from her usual international spy missions, Maggie gets to spend more quality time with her insanely cool best friend, Roux, and former mark turned boyfriend, Jesse Oliver... even if she does have to meet his mom. But when Maggie's parents are falsely accused of stealing precious gold coins, she flees to Paris with her friends to form a new spy team... one that will clear her family's name once and for all.</div>
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"The Boyfriend List was a homework assignment for my mental health. Doctor Z, my shrink, told me to write down all the boyfriends, kind-of boyfriends, almost-boyfriends, rumoured boyfriends and wished-he-were boyfriends I've ever had. Plus, she recommended I take up knitting."</div>
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"My name is Zelah Green and I'm a cleanaholic." I spend most of my life running away from germs. And dirt. And people. And I'm just about doing OK and then my stepmother packs me off to some kind of hospital to live with a load of strangers. It's stuck in the middle of nowhere. <i>Great. </i>There's Alice who's anorexic. Caro who cuts herself. Silent Sol who has the cutest smile. And then there's me. "It'll be fine, I say to myself. It's all going to be OK..."</div>
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A bookshop crammed with wonders; a lost friendship rediscovered; sinister secrets and a terrible act of revenge.</div>
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Following the death of his parents, Simon, a shy 16-year-old, moves into his grandparents' claustrophobic bungalow. United by their voracious appetite for novels, Simon and his grandmother stumble across the Great Big Book Exchange - a bookshop with a difference. There they meet impulsive, gothic Kelly and her boss, Terrance - and the friendships forged in the Great Big Book Exchange result in startling and unsettling consequences for all of them.</div>
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My name is Ellen and welcome to my second blog 'My Imagination on Paper'.</div>
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My Imagination on Paper is where I shall write about the books I love, my opinions on social issues, short stories I've written, poems I like etc.<br />
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