Hiya!

I'm a writer from the Midlands, UK. After completing my studies in BA and MA Creative Writing, I am developing a reading, writing, and blogging portfolio. On this site, you will find my writing blog - 'The Writer's Diary' and a reading blog which I manage through the book cataloguing site Goodreads.

I am currently working on two projects. LED's and Cherry Trees is a near-future science fiction novel concerning the moral implications of transhumanism and biorobotics. The other project 'Shifting Skins' is an experimental collection of short horror stories.

Please feel free to roam around my site. If you have any queries about proofreading and editing, please head to the contact page. Happy browsing! <3

Short Stories

Scripts

The Writer's Diary

How Horrific Does Horror Need To Be?

Having read and watched a few horrors lately, I have concluded that it is not necessarily how much gore, spooky ghosts, or psychological...

Experimenting With Limited Narrative

Hello again! I am back for the final term of uni, and my god, hasn't the last few months been a train wreck? A cliché metaphor, to use...

Scripts - Development and Exposition

Writing For Stage And Screen is perhaps one of the modules that are the most set apart from other areas of writing. Because, to write a...

Time Travel Shenanigans

How do you format your timelines? Do you plan before you begin writing or let the writing dictate important events in your story? This...

June is June-y. Working on 'Show Don't Tell'

I'm currently completing two assignments, trying to catch up on my reading challenge whilst working a full time job and haven't had much...

Little Flurries of Inspiration

I think my brain has been melting out of my ears. Since returning to uni for the second term, I feel that no particularly gripping ideas...

Parallel World Play

Imagine a world where trending topics were an issue for the past, where Henry VIII is the target of feminist propaganda, or the Vikings...

Back at it

I can shamefully admit that I have not written anything on here in about a month. I was going to use the excuse that I was catching up on...

Fighting Fascism in Fiction

In the last year, we have been faced with very different definitions of fascism. We have had our world turned upside down and some of us...

Dipping In And Out Of Genre

One of my first posts on this blog was about trying to write in a genre I had never tried before. My aim was to incorporate mythological...

Goodreads Reviews

Follow me and other bookworms on Goodreads. Here you can join the 2021 Reading Challenge and spy on what other people are reading!

I write reviews depending on the context and length of the book/poetry. If I am reading a series, I prefer to wait until the last book so I am able to leave a full review. Similarly, with short story collections it is very difficult to leave a rating because I have found that when there is a lot of variety and styles, you can't judge the entire collection on a single piece.

However, I will give an honest review for the majority of novels and nonfiction. Here, you can see what books make me cringe and what books make me cry!