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My Firsts: First Story Written

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So, I have stolen the idea for this series from Sarah from the wonderful blog Sarah in Wonderland. Please check out her blog as it’s awesome and she is super lovely! I love the idea of sharing our firsts, so every so often I am going to recount one of my ‘firsts’, now I can’t guarantee that they’ll be interesting or funny, but they’ll be good or at least they will be in my own opinion.

I have no idea how this one is going to be taken. Absolutely no idea. I have no memory of writing this but it has been kept by my grandparents who appear to keep every piece I’ve written. I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. From what I’ve been told I was about 8 when this was written. It was also written in five, yes FIVE, different coloured gel pens. You know, because one clearly isn’t enough. Three of them were glittery too which just amuses me as after almost 20 years the pages are still all sparkly. Please keep in mind that none of the text you are about to read has been changed. All the grammar mistakes, misspellings, and complete and utter nonsense you are about to read have been kept the same. I wouldn’t even know where to begin in editing this. When I read things like this, I can see why people always thought I was weird, I think this is super weird!

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Confessions of a Struggling Writer #2

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This blog post was originally published on Maddie & Books on 31st May 2015. Whilst the blog still exists as an archive, I no longer chose to post there and thus have decided to move some of the content here to share with all of you.


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Sleep.

What the hell is sleep?

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Stories at The Storey: Second Chances

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This blog post was originally published on Maddie & Books on 27th May 2015. Whilst the blog still exists as an archive, I no longer chose to post there and thus have decided to move some of the content here to share with all of you.
Second chances

I missed the April edition of Stories at The Storey, a local storytelling event held monthly in Lancaster. As I was unable to attend the event, I wanted to share my story here on Maddie & Books. 
Well here it is, my personal interpretation of second chances. 

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June: Story Slam

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This blog post was originally published on Maddie & Books on 30th July 2015. Whilst the blog still exists as an archive, I no longer chose to post there and thus have decided to move some of the content here to share with all of you.


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Story Slam is an event that took place in June at The Duke's Theatre as part of First Fridays as organised by Lancaster Arts City.Sadly only three people turned up to this event however, I enjoyed it very much. I will certainly go again if it is held again. The idea behind Story Slam is to share stories and they were to be fictional stories derived from real life. I decided to write a story about an experience I had with a guy at university. Even though I am now miles away from university I decided to keep names completely out of the story, not only does this protect me from any potential backlash but I feel it add a certain something to the piece. As children could be at the event I had to try and keep the piece somewhere between a PG and a 12A - for those of you who no idea what those ratings are Frozen is a PG and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 12A. I thought that I would share the story here on Maddie & Books

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Short Story: Never Should Have Let You Go

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This blog post was originally published on Maddie & Books on 3rd October 2015. Whilst the blog still exists as an archive, I no longer chose to post there and thus have decided to move some of the content here to share with all of you.



Hello, today I am sharing one of my short stories with you. As you may or may not know, as well as blogging about books, I write them. I write both novels and short stories. Never Should Have Let You Go is one of my shortest stories and is inspired by a Simple Plan song of the same name, I have embedded the video above so can listen to it if you wish whilst reading the story. This video originally was going to be part of an anthology I was writing but the idea has since been scrapped as I have been busy working on my novel, but if you would like to see an anthology or just more short stories from me, then let me know - most of my hard drive is taken up with stories I have written.

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Confessions of a Struggling Writer #1

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This blog post was originally published on Maddie & Books on 22nd April 2015. Whilst the blog still exists as an archive, I no longer chose to post there and thus have decided to move some of the content here to share with all of you.
   
It has been one of those months. I've been sat writing, working away at A Fall From Grace and I've hit the point where I am wondering what is the point? 

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Stories at the Storey: Identity

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This blog post was originally published on Maddie & Books on 5th October 2015. Whilst the blog still exists as an archive, I no longer chose to post there and thus have decided to move some of the content here to share with all of you.




So September has been and gone, as has the September edition of Stories at the Storey. For those of you who have no idea what Stories at the Storey is, it's a local storytelling event held monthly in Lancaster. We get together and share stories that all connect loosely through a theme. The theme for September was Identity and this is my story on identity.

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