Post Apocolyptic

I used to like watching the odd post apocalyptic series or movie, but now it seems they are everywhere.  The walking dead the most visible i assume but others are all over. Last night I heard of a series called the last ship that follows survivors of the end of the human race that are…

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Sticker Bombing

I am generally not a person who gets rid of anything electronic, because of the price of second-hand electronics being low I just use things until they are broken. I would always put a load of stickers on laptops, I just liked the way it looked. Since starting this I have gone a bit mad….

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Nom de plume

“An assumed name used by a writer instead of their real name; a pen-name:” Oxford Dictionary I will start this by saying I understand why some writers feel the need to use a pen name, maybe they are are writing in a genre they are not usually known for. Or they want to see how well…

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New Year

I hesitate to use the word resolutions, but 2014 is going to be the year for blogging for me. As I move closer to being finished with Uni I am planning to launch my writing career and finally getting published. Until I have the time to do this though, I am going to get myself…

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Master of procrastination

I’m sure no one is reading my blog at the moment (if you are feel free to comment to let me know) but if you are reading back and see this you will notice that I have allot of posts that proclaim I am tired of being unfit, not writing etc etc and then declaring…

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Camp NaNo

It’s July and that means that at the end of June someone reminded me that it was nano and I declared I was going to do it again this year. Then I didn’t do much for a few days. I decided that this year instead of focusing on one project I was going to try…

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The decline in Computing in schools

I was reading the news today on the BBC and noticed their article about the falling numbers in students completing the Computing qualification. It seems that in the last few years there has been a steady decline in the numbers of students completing this course. It’s strange to think that when the Computing course was…

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Preptober

It’s 23:03 on a Sunday night, 2nd October. It was a writing meet day so I got quite a bit done this morning in Darlo. I didn’t get much done once home but I have a start now. Preptober is the name given for the month of October leading up to National Novel Writing Month….

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