Hi there. I'm Clare, and I like writing. A lot. I also like playing games and reading books and comics and manga and watching films and tv shows and anime and consuming as many media products as I have time for. A lot. And I especially like writing about them. A lot ( Read more... )

last updated: May 30th, 2009

( my writing )

Oh lj, how I have neglected you. Except not, because I've been on here just as much as ever, lurking and reading and getting mired in linkspam and wank. In other words, indulging all my obsessive and neurotic tendencies. Which I don't need, given that my brain already so often feels dull and heavy from constantly gnawing on and fretting over this ( Read more... )

This is not going to be a proper review, primarily because my love for Harry Potter has softened into a kind of simple, warm, nostalgic fangirl pleasure that I just slip happily into whenever I revisit the series. I loved Deathly Hallows as a film; I think it's the best one they've made so far - beautiful art direction, good pacing, much better ( Read more... )

I was eyeing pw_bigbang, wondering if I'd be able to pull my finger out and finally write that not-cracky-honest Franziska/Kay story that's been knocking around in my head since AA:I came out, but decided my writing energy's just too unpredictable at the moment. So I signed up as a beta instead :D I don't know why I don't offer beta-ing more often, tbh - all ( Read more... )

Wirral -> Manchester, at last. Moving has not been particularly fun, to put it mildly. Sheer volume of stuff + having to get it all down from a 2nd floor flat + unloading at top speed on a tiny city centre road + CLEANING AND CLEANING AND CLEANING OH GOD WHY DID OUR LAST FLAT HAVE TO BE SO BIG = bad times; I have been in an absolutely foul temper ( Read more... )

1. Today, I reached the halfway word count mark on the first draft of my thesis. I would feel pleased with myself, if it weren't for the fact that I'm finding it pretty much impossible to feel pleased with anything I do on this thesis at the moment. I am entirely burnt out on it, to the point where I know I'm consistently producing work way below ( Read more... )

1. N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: best new fantasy I've read in a long time. A tale of power and betrayal and inheritance and theomachy, in the epic fantasy mould - except, well, not, because a) it insistently rejects and moves away from the stale eurocentrism of most epic fantasy, b) it exposes and questions the dynamics of ( Read more... )

I am alive, I've just been going through a difficult and busy patch with my thesis lately. Pretty much everything I do has this undercurrent of "how on earth am I going to finish this degree and what the hell am I going to be able to do with it once I have?" My brain is constantly occupied with thoughts of cv building and publication and ( Read more... )

1. Me, Hazel, and an old school friend went on an impromptu mini road trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Wednesday. We drove up with a ridiculously large bag of snacks and a mixtape of tenuously themed songs through miserable thick morning mist, but arrived at Blackpool under clear skies and bright sunshine, where we stayed pretty much until the ( Read more... )