ta-da! new layout!I think I may be slightly in love with the header image... :P ( Read more... )

I feel the need to rant about yesterday's lecture because... well, because it was just rubbish from start to finish and... nnnnnnghh! It makes me want to scream. But I won't. Because I don't live in the middle of nowhere anymore. Yeah ( Read more... )

I'll get one thing off my chest right now. SF/Fantasy conferences are the best.

And I say this because I attended one last Saturday and I absolutely loved it; if that's how a convention feels like, keep them coming. :)

Shall I tell you what the title of this amazing event was? I shall. "Memory, Identity and New Fantasy Cultures", with the opening ( Read more... )

Quoting my lecturer, this afternoon in our Writing with Style class, while talking about plot and story.

"Aristotle's [theory for storytelling] of sin, realisation and reversal or, in more modern terms, equilibrium (everything is normal), dis-equilibrium (something happens to upset the normal) and equilibrium again. Examples of this would be fairy ( Read more... )

I had a brief moment of disbelief in class, just this afternoon. I was listening to the lecture (a plain, introductory one) and I suddenly realised that I am actually really here, I'm a student at a university that is not within a 50 miles radius of my home ( Read more... )