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Every year I forget when my blog anniversary is even after six years! I know that it is in June but it is today the 15th of June!  A lot has happened in six years when I started this blog. Before my first blog post, I was going to university later that summer. Now I have a BA and MA degree! And I have tracked my progress all the way. It's a bit emotional to think about it!  I am so grateful were my blog. I enjoy the content that I make and in a year where I have basically stopped interacting with a lot of social media but my views are higher than ever. They have tripled in a year! I think this might because I have linked my blog on my job application and CVs so if you are a recruiter, Hi!  In other news, I have loved seeing the change in my content and hopefully see my writing progress and I hope that this continues. Since my first year, I hoped to track the changes in my blogging life and I love to see them. So let's get started...   Q1) Favourite Book Frankens...

I am a writer. For the longest time, I felt like this had to come with a caveat. I was an aspiring writer. Like I wasn't doing the act of writing already. It felt to me that what I was doing wasn't real. But it was. But it also depends on what you call writing. Is me writing this blog post writing? Those times when I go for a walk to the bus stop, thinking exactly what my main character is doing, is that writing? Me dreaming about a faraway world before sleep takes me, is that writing? Is the only thing that we can consider writing, the act of sitting there. The device in hand. The cursor blinking at you. Writer's block slowly creeping up on you. Within the reach and then you get blank page syndrome. No writing happens at all. So I think it's complicated. For me, without concrete ideas in place, writing can't happen. You do just stare at a blank page, waiting for inspiration to hit you in the face. So while I haven't written anything at all on my writing project...

  * I am reviewing this book which I was gifted for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. *   Title: Incredible Doom Author: Matthew Bogart & Jesse Holden Publisher: HarperAlley Source: From Publisher ( Bookshop UK |  Hive |  Goodreads  |  Storygraph ) Book Summary: It’s the dawn of a new age…the age of the internet. Allison  is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family’s first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meets Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind,  Richard  receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to “Evol BBS,” a dial-in bulletin board system, and meets a fierce punk named  Tina  who comes into his life and shakes his entire world view loose. ...

The world of job hunting is hard. Especially for someone with anxiety. You always have the voice in your head that tells you, you are not good enough. Through job hunting, this is almost amplified. Even ghosted application. Every bad interview. Every rejection. It almost tells you that you are not good enough. That you are not worthy. You can tell yourself that this isn't true. Someone wanted you to be employed before. You are good enough. But then you think of the consequences of those jobs. You may have been the only one who applied. They were looking for a lot of people. You just so happened to fit the bill. You will never get anywhere. Can't fit in anywhere. Destined to waste your life in the same job. Never following your dreams. Always stagnant. In these moments, you just want someone to take a chance on you. To tell you that you are worthy. That you are enough. That you are good enough. That those words that you spent hours mulling over on your cover letter mattered. Tha...