My Baffling Brain

Celebrate the Small Things is a weekly bloghop hosted by Viklit over at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author . The idea is to post anything you want to celebrate from the last week. This week I'm celebrating:  - Just two more days at work and then I get a couple of days off. Thank goodness for that, a seven day trot is far too long!  - The Harry Potter series. I'm so happy to be re-reading it again, I absolutely love it.  - I'm going Christmas shopping on Tuesday - I can't wait, I haven't started yet so it should be fun. 

What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Erin L Funk and Jaime Morrow , and the idea is to let other bloggers know where you are with any writing and reading goals you may have. 1. What I'm Reading Since the last time I wrote a post for What's Up Wednesday, I've read three books: Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth; Rain by Virginia Bergin and Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater. My favourite was the latter, of course.  I'm now reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . It's only been a year since my last re-read of the series, but I couldn't resist breaking into my new set! 2. What I'm Writing Not much, at the minute. I'm in the middle of a seven day trot at work, so hopefully on my next day off (Monday) I'll get a little writing done! I'm hoping to continue with my NaNo edits from last year, and also finish off the stories I started for Halloween blogfests. 3. What Works for ...

Another busy month, work-wise, so I didn't quite manage to achieve all of my goals, again! These were my goals for October: - Read 3 books - This one I managed, just! - Take part in the four blogfests I've signed up for - I half achieved this one. I took part in two of the blogfests, but not the other two because I ran out of time to write the stories. Hopefully I'll get more writing done this month.  Here are my goals for November:  - Read 3 books - I should manage this without too much trouble. I love to read too much not to!  - Start Christmas shopping - I really need to start, I haven't bought any presents yet. I do have plans for presents though, which is good!  - Resume work on last years NaNo edits - I've missed writing, and I'm determined to start writing regularly again. 

Celebrate the Small Things is a weekly bloghop hosted by Viklit over at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author . The idea is to post anything you want to celebrate from the last week. This week I'm celebrating:  - Halloween! I love Halloween, it's my second favourite time of year. My sister's having a party tonight, and I can't wait! I didn't get time to join in some of the Halloween blogfests I wanted to (which I'm gutted about) but here are my entries for last year for anyone who wants to read some spooky stories: Spooktoberfest 2013 Write Edit Publish Haunting 2013 Halloween Blog Hop 2013 - It's my weekend off this weekend, and I'm so excited about that! I've been working a lot of hours lately, so it'll be nice to have a couple of days off together.  - Once Upon a Time. I just bought myself season 2, and I'm loving it!  - Writing! I haven't done as much as I wanted to this week, but I've done more than I h...

The rules are very simple - you have 400 words or less to write about a real villain, one you created in a novel, or write a flash fiction. Your villain doesn't have to be necessarily a murderer or stalker, but any anti-hero in your writing will work just fine! I was going to write a scene involving the villain from my NaNo novel from last year, but I've been working a lot lately so I haven't had time to edit it yet. Instead, I've decided to talk about one of my absolute favourite villains from one of my favourite TV shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Of course, I'm talking about Angel. I think I love him more as a villain than I love him as a good guy. There's a reason season 2 is my favourite. I just think that was an amazing idea from Joss; turn someone who Buffy loves and trusts completely into someone so evil, someone who will hurt her friends and family just to get to her.  It's a great conflict for a hero; how do you kill someone yo...

It's time for one of my favourite annual blogfests, hosted by Dani and Jackie at Cover Girls . Here's my piece, at 296 words. The Church “Whose idea was this?” Robbie whispered as we crept across the old church yard. “You’re the one who said you were bored!” Luke said, side-stepping a crumbling gravestone. “I meant we should play a game or something!” Charlie turned around to face us. “You’re not chickening out?” “No,” Robbie said, “but what about the curse ?” “Oh come on,” Charlie said. “You don’t actually believe that, do you?” “Well…” Luke said. “Nobody ever sets foot in the church - there must be a reason for that!” “Yeah,” Charlie said, turning back to the church shrouded in darkness. “Because they’re hiding something from us! Come on.” He moved forwards; Luke, Robbie and I exchanged glances before following. Charlie stopped in front of the battered door. “Let’s do this.” He took a large, rusty key from his pocket and inserted it into the lock. “Where did you get ...

Celebrate the Small Things is a weekly bloghop hosted by Viklit over at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author . The idea is to post anything you want to celebrate from the last week. This week I'm celebrating:  - The new Avengers trailer! Have you seen it? It looks awesome!  - Last week I told you that I'd ordered some treats for myself, and this week they arrived! I got myself a new box set of the Harry Potter books - they're amazing! I also got myself season 2 of Once Upon a Time, which I've wanted for ages.  - Grey's Anatomy is back on TV!