@TJBlake93: Sometimes we wish that we can get away from reality. The best way to do this is by writing #writing #amwriting #writingquote
A quote of mine that popped into my head.
Category: Random thought
Happy Back to the Future day!
If only today was a public holiday! Everyone could have watched all of the Back to the Future films and awaited for the pinnical moment in the film… The part where they travel to our present day, the 21st of October 2015. Least then you’d only need to watch up to the second film for that!
Anyway the day has now passed. What’s next?
Currently Writing – My next book is called…
I have been writing my thriller novel and it is getting extremely close to the juicy and big twist now.
Billy is an intriguing character and the reader will have many questions about him, but Billy currently has many questions for his love interest Eve.
Billy though is continuing to have weird thoughts, but no wonder with his current situation!
I can finally reveal that I have decided to call this new thriller Deception!
Let me know your thoughts on the book title.
I completed the gruelling Nuts Challenge
Yesterday I completed the gruelling Nuts Challenge and thankfully I didn’t die!
For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s a 7k army assault course caped in mud. There’s running, climbing, sliding, crawling, swinging, jumping, swimming (I chose to do this at one stage) and carrying. It was exhausting, but I’m glad that I did it to pick up my medal at the end.
Check out my photos from the day to get an idea of what it was like. These photos were taken at the end of the course so I had already done the hard stuff!
I did all of my own stunts!
New Thriller New Title?
I have been trying to think of a title for my new thriller for a while now, but I may have finally thought of a title worth considering.
After originally submitting the first few chapters of ‘The Dog Walk’ for my dissertation, I then decided to continue writing it and adapt it into a full novel. I was initially going to stick with ‘The Dog Walk’ as the title for the book, but for me it just wasn’t right. I thought of titles such as ‘Woodland Walker’, ‘Collared’ and ‘Woodlands’, but none of which suited the book. Now though I have a title which is well suited and definitely my best title yet.
The piece of work originated from my Creative Writing Dissertation (Which I gladly received a First for). I did a lot of research into the field of psychogy before creating the characters and story. With my readings, I was able to create the intricate and intriguingly strange and lonely main character Billy.
I’m happy with how the story is currently unfolding, and I can’t wait to get it finished and published for all of you to read.
This Is How ‘Lady Authors’ Were Told to Promote Their Books in the 1960s
Interesting… Well I’m certainly no ‘lady author’ but who knows, this could work for me!
Is this you? ‘People who highlight minor grammar points are amazing’
We all do it on Facebook… Don’t we?
Humanely release the Orca whale known as Tilikum to a seapen for rehab – Watch Blackfish and sign the petition!
I have today finally got around to watching Blackfish, and even though it did make me cry, it opened my narrow, naive and ignorant mind to it all.
I have been to SeaWorld three times. I thought that the Whales were all well looked after and very happy in captivity, I mean a lot of people believe that right? We’re all mistaken. They aren’t happy and are kept in poor conditions. Their lives are miserable. I feel dirty for ever going to SeaWorld, and I certainly won’t be going ever again!
Whether you have been to SeaWorld or not, you HAVE to watch Blackfish and conduct your own research to learn the harrowing and heartbreaking truths of Tilikum and SeaWorld’s ‘care’ for him. It’s completely shocking and inhumane. SeaWorld should be ashamed of themselves. I hope that they get shut down, and Tilikum can try to recover from his years of hurt and frustration.
Watch Blackfish and support the cause in anyway you can. There are many petitions, Facebook groups etc highlighting the appeal to free Tilikum, but the most important thing is to spread the word and open the mind of the millions of small minded and ignorant humans.
As human beings, lets do the right thing and do what is best for Tilikum!
Finally Graduated… Even though I did look like a student of Hogwarts
After three years of writing fiction, screenplays, radio scripts, stage scripts, poetry, short fiction, flash fiction and studying the many theorists within the English Language, I have finally graduated Kingston University with a BA(Hons) degree in Creative Writing with English Language and Communications.
Education was very difficult for me at first; especially for a child who had speech therapy and attended extra classes for handwriting, spelling and mathematics.
I had a tough time learning throughout the school years of my education. I think a huge effect was that I was put down by a number of teachers along the way; always predicting me mediocre grades. I remember one teacher told me that I would be lucky to get a ‘D’ in English Language and completely doubted my ability to attend university to study English.
Well here I am, around 3 years after you told me I wouldn’t go to uni; with a mortarboard on my head, and a degree in Creative Writing with English Language & Communications added to my CV.
I am confident that I’ve proved you wrong, but I do have to thank you for spurring me on to do so.
From this post you can take the belief that no one should have the right to tell you that you can’t do something. Do not let anyone tell you that you can’t achieve something. If you want to attend university, then you can do it!
Entering a different mind and body
Today I have been writing. This writing though means that I have to enter into a different kind of mind state to become this character. This mind is unlike myself and any other character of mine.
It does however make me wonder, is there any person out there who thinks the same as my character, Billy in this story? To be honest I hope not. Although his mind and thought processes are intelligent, imaginative and creative, he is dangerous.
Billy’s an interesting character, and I look forward to see where he takes me!
T. J. Blake #Author 