Category: Other Writing

Poem Attempt 1: Invisible Friend

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This is one of the first poems I wrote. We were given the opportunity to write what ever we wanted to but to insert break lines. So I decided to combine Poetry and my favoured genre Horror.
I hope this works, let me know what you think of it.

 

Copyright © 2014 T. J. Blake
All rights reserved.

 

Invisible Friend

I walk in, where

I once lived.

Wooden rocking horse and

Ticking grandfather clock

All remain.

glowing yellow eyes appear,

Beneath the patchy, carpeted stairs leading

to my bedroom.

 

gaping cracks and

Burrowed mice holes in each corner of

the worn steps.

My friend waits for me,

Gold ponytails with plastic flowers,

Just like my mummy did to me.

light blue dress with printed daffodils,

Red shoes and a friendship bracelet which I made

but she found.

 

We run to our room.

Sharing the bed each night.

We have tea parties,

my friend hosts.

Offering me and the guests tea,

her daddy bursts in.

‘who are you talking to darling?’

 

Previously loved,

here my spirit broke free.

 

By T. J. Blake

My Poetry Attempts – Coming Soon!

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For one of my Creative Writing modules at University last semester I had to write four poems. Obviously when I read that I needed to write poems for a small segment of my degree I did feel a bit like ‘Oh shit!’ because I have never been good at writing poetry!

But to be honest it wasn’t too bad. My aim was to try and write poems in a different way, to a similar way to what I would write if I was writing a novel.
I did this for a couple of poems but others I had to stick to a template supplied by the University.

I will upload two over the weekend for you guys to read. Please let me know what you think of them.

Mobile Phone VS Book!!

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Recently, I came back from a weeks holiday in Santorini (Greece). This is my story and plea to never let books die out.

Whilst on holiday, I had a little accident. On the FIRST day, that’s right the first bloody day, I decided to have a dip in the swimming pool. As I stepped into the chilling chlorinated waters, I realised that my pocket was rather bulky. I felt my pocket and thought ‘there’s something hard in this pocket.’ Now I know what you’re thinking (dirty minded people) Let me make this clear… there were a lot of older women with EVERYTHING on show whilst they tanned so it isn’t… let’s say a part of my body. But as I forced my hand into my pocket, I yanked out my phone, covered in water.

‘Great, my life is ruined.’ I thought as I sulked back to my sun bed. I even went to the trouble of placing my phone in some Uncle Ben’s Rice to soak up the water. It didn’t work so it meant that I would have to cope an entire week without my phone.

Admittedly, it was fine, I did not miss my phone. Instead, I spent all my holiday reading.
I read a few books. I read Eeny Meeny by M. J. Arlidge (Average) , A Tap on The Window by Linwood Barclay (A very good book) and most of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Boring at first, better in the second half.).
As I read, I realised that I actually missed reading. With University, Writing and part time work, I never really get to sit down and just read whatever I want to and this holiday gave me that opportunity.
I honestly felt happier reading than if I was on my phone crushing candy, sending selfies or Tweeting about my day to people who simply don’t really care.

So lets all hail books because they’re amazing. Never let them become extinct. Peace.

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Blog With A New Look

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My blog has changed tonight. You may notice that my URL is now changed to tjblakeauthor.com and that the entire blog has had a pretty makeover.

Hope you like it, please have a look through my blog and read about my books. If you’re a fan of horror, mystery, dystopia, science fiction and psychological novels then you may be interested in my novels Endurance and The Author (which are both available on Amazon and Waterstones.

Endurance on Amazon: getBook.at/B00E8Q9QCU

The Author on Amazon: getBook.at/B00HYN2QAI

Amazon Author Page: Author.to/TJBlake

Goodreads Author: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7032700.T_J_Blake

Read my Articles on Blirt: http://www.blirt-magazine.com/profile/?id=311

Endurance to become a 3 book series

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I have come to the decision that if my next novel Endurance: Apocalypse (Endurance 2) receives positive reviews and you all enjoy it, then I will expand the original plan of just two Endurance’s into a possible 3 or 4 book series.

I have begun planning Endurance 3 but I will only continue to extensively plan once I am happy with Endurance: Apocalypse and that it is released.

I should also mention that I plan to also write a new Supernatural Horror, which I hope to have available to you all before the end of 2014.

My Blirt Article: Film News and Thoughts

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This is an article which I wrote on Blirt. I felt the need to express my feelings. Please have a read and tell me what you think of the films I speak about.

” My thoughts on Taken 3, Mrs Doubtfire 2 and Terminator 5, with a quick mention of The Amazing Spiderman 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Godzilla. – See more at: http://www.blirt-magazine.com/display/newsarticle.php?id=1253#sthash.Ydxk7BOD.dpuf ”

 

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A Quick Thank You!

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Thank you to those people who downloaded The Author whilst it was just 99p on Amazon UK on Kindle.

 

I would also just like to say thank you all for your support over the past year. In this time I have released my first two novels Endurance and The Author and during this time I have had a great time writing and marketing them. I’ve had great feedback from my readers and it feels great to know that I have entertained you. I hope to be writing more over the years and I hope you will all follow me on my writing journey.

THANK YOU 🙂

Toe op, uni work and a new book idea

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Here’s a lovely picture of me recovering from my operation on my toe.

Not being able to walk or do anything has forced me to do uni work.. Which has surprisingly given me a new supernatural book idea! I want to work on it and plan it out a little more yet but potentially, I aim to finish writing my next novel Endurance: Apocalypse and then move on to this idea and work on getting it released 🙂