When it comes to love, 2020 has really been the year to put the “hopeless” into “hopeless romantic”. The conditions needed for new love to form have all but been…
Love in the Time of Corona
A Postgraduate In Pandemic Land
I spent my final year of university watching the clock. There was never enough time. I rushed from classes to theatre rehearsals to work, stayed in the library until 2am…
How I Found Freedom in Failure
On July 24th 2020, two momentous events occurred. 1: Taylor Swift released her 8th studio album, and it is all I have listened to since. 2: I got a rejection…
The Opposite of Permanence
When the pandemic hit, most of my friends moved away practically overnight. As a university student, I had grown used to not seeing my friends for months at a time.…
Farewell, Film Degree
I spent the majority of today writing an essay about the cosmopolitan position of Ingrid Bergman’s star image – a topic I will most likely never have reason to discuss…
10 Moments That Capture The Beauty And Randomness Of Travelling
There are songs I can’t listen to without being transported to another place and time. It’s useful, these days, when the height of excitement in my life takes the form…
Freedom and Fantasy
I’ve been reading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver since June 2019. The past ten months have been busy, chaotic, and intense, and as much as I love to escape into fantasy…
The Purest Form of… Inspiration
I am fascinated by destruction. My novel, The Purest Form of Chaos, has two protagonists: one is called Phoenix, after the bird that resurrects from its own ashes, and the…
10 Things I Want To Do Before I Die
Recent circumstances have proven to me that I have nowhere near the number of life experiences I want to. As I contemplate all the things I have done in my…
A Few of my Favourite Things
How concerned should I be that I don’t know the favourite songs of most of the people I’m close to, but I have half their astrology charts memorised? Imagine it’s…