‘Less Travelled’ | New Poem + Explanation

'Happiness was alien and fragile and Death and Prison were reaching out'

It’s Midnight and My Mind Is Awake

Okay, granted it's not midnight yet as I'm writing this, it's actually currently 7 minutes to BUT the sentiment is the same. Many nights I find myself awake staring at my laptop screen and killing time, too awake to sleep and too tired to do anything huge. That midnight madness where my mind decides it's …

Do You Ever See Me? | A New Poem

Some things happen in this life, and sometimes they can be really bloody horrible. There can be events, or people and the things they do to you, mentally or otherwise that can cause so much trauma for an unimaginable amount of time. From then on there are few paths that come from that background, there …

A Letter To The Moon | A New Poem

The past few weeks have been a bit strange for me, sort of had a momentary mental breakdown and  was trying to piece myself back together. Now I'm feeling better I wanted to write something that represents a lot of the insomniac thoughts that often occur during my difficult moments. Enjoy. A Letter To The …

Lets Talk About Dodie Clark…

First off, I apologise for how confusing this post might get in parts. I wanted to write this for a while, but there's more than one part to it, so I promise I'll try and be as structured with it as possible! I will however start with the main focus... Dodie Clark. If you don't already …

Musical Obsessions #1 – Wiser EP – Madilyn Bailey

When I first started this blog, 3 years ago now, when it lived on a different website I had a series. The series was a collection of blog posts that told you guys my current musical obsessions. Today, I'd like to bring it back again. Music has saved my life on multiple occasions and I …

Relapse – A New Poem

NEW POEM. This one was made with relapsing back into Depression in mind, with a format that might work as a spoken word poem, because I wanted to experiment with that style, to see how it feels. As always let me know what you think. Relapse Sometimes happiness comes with the fear That the familiar …

The Power of Acting and Returning To School

Four years ago I performed one of the most important performances of my life. Why was it so important? Because it was my Year 12 final performance, but more than that it was the first performance of my acting and social progression of its kind. It was intense, it was challenging and completely out of …

From Seed To Oak – A Short Story

Hey guys, I'm always a bit skeptical about posting short stories online, purely for the fact you can never tell whether anyone will take the time to read it all, but hey I want to put across my tone in longer writing so, if you're interested, have a read and let me know what you …

Screening a Years Worth of Work

It may seem dramatic to entitle this blog post 'Screening a Years Worth of Work' but it has been the first piece of film, like this, that I have done for so long, and to such an extent. The idea of the 'Dissertation' has meant a lot of different things to me over the years, …