The Creased Pages

The Story Corner is now live! I mentioned yesterday that I'd be looking for a good way to share my stories with you, and now, I have found one! I did originally try to set up a page on this blog where I could put my stories, but it wouldn't have worked very well, and they would have been a little hidden away. So, instead, I have given them their own blog space, called The Story Corner !

I'm fully aware that the posts on this blog haven't exactly been consistent - I haven't set myself a schedule to know when it's time to write a new post; and the choice of subject matter has been more random than a cheerleading banana, pole dancing to a Jedward song in the middle of a rugby field full of ice cream. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with randomness in some contexts. Okay, a banana in a cheerleader's outfit might be going a little over the top, but in terms of a blog being written by a girl in her late teens, who has had so little inspiration for a long time and who is only just regaining some kind of order to her life, random is good. Thanks to the months mainly spent either job hunting in the local towns or at home, job hunting online, my mind went into a kind of zombified, autopilot state, where I was doing the same thing every single day for so long that I lost my spark. But, I wou...

The social networking world has revolutionised the way we commnicate with each other. But, while it might be good to be able to be in some kind of contact with the outside world 24/7, these sites have brought with them a new way for us all to be judged based on what we do online. How many times have you gone to write a status on Facebook, but then re-worded it a million times in fear of sounding too vain, too moany, too happy, too sad, too attention seeking...? And how many times have you changed your mind on commenting on someone else's status, just in case you upset them with your views, or just to avoid looking like a loser? We've adapted now to try to please other people in order to make sure we're not judged negatively by the people we know (and, sometimes, the people we don't).