Fiction Field Trip

Yesterday, I went on a field trip with my fiction group to the Liverpool World Museum. The idea behind it was to become inspired through the images we could find in the museum exhibits and then have story ideas for the last fiction assessment. I'd been to the museum a few times before and its still pretty good. I always see something new and enjoy wondering around the display cases. Things were a bit different this time because we were there to work and I took a lot of photos, which I'm hopefully going to create a murder mystery story out of and had two ideas.

Striking a pose.

There's something above you.....

I think most of my class had fun too and I'm looking foreword to reading their stories in a workshop next week. I've already written my story, though I'm not sure what people are going to make of it because it has a number of different levels and I'm still not happy with it. It's a case of I know what I want to say, but I can't express it through words. Hopefully someone can give me a hand with it.

There was a new exhibit too, a plant world and it was very interactive. I think the small group I was with spent most the time in this room, though we did get to see the bugs and the Ancient worlds. We were meant to concentrate on the bugs, because the stories have to involve them. It seemed to be a good subject because the bug world is so large and can be used in many different contexts.

Discovering a new world......

So going to museums can be really useful for writers because not all only can you have ideas but you can get background information too. I've a strange love for museums and such places anyway, thanks to my parents and being taken to many places when I was young. In fact, beside from writing, reading and playing Facebook games, there's nothing I like better then exploring a new place! Be it woods, countryside, beach, castle or a cemetery, I just love walking and connecting with nature. I've some of my best ideas in theses places too!

The world of the ancients....

Well...when in Roman you've got to look the part!

Who says mummies are not scary????

Before I go off to get ready for a night out, I'm going to share my current reading material! It's a newish novel by John Drake and the second in a trilogy. It's called Pieces of Eight and the first one was Flint and Silver. These novels are about the events before Treasure Island and answers some of the questions that were created, but not answered. I'm loving reading them, the story telling is just so good and the adult-ness that I was seeking from Island and never found is very clear in here! So I'd recommend them for anyone who loves Island and pirates.

The ghostly photos.

Cool frog in Liverpool square.

Hey, I know I've not wrote in ages, but first not a lot was happening and then suddenly I had to do all my uni work and found making time for anything else difficult. It has been a strange time really, because after three weeks of well....not doing a lot, but knowing that I should be doing something, I've had to wake up to the fact that time is running far too fast for me to catch up with it, so I might as well get down to the tasks before me-namely horrible essays about long dead people and others who think they know everything about them.

Today I manged to do another essay, so that is something of a weight off my mind, but it still needs fixing up and a biblography, so its not over yet! This essay was tough, I think I made the mistake of choosing the most easiest question and then whilst trying to write it discovered that really it was hard because of the lack of second critics out there about the plays and themes I was meant to be writing about. So I decided that what really needed to happen was someone to come along and write about the things I was trying to study-thus making life slighter easier. This then got me thinking about why don't I write this article/book thing? but I just don't have the time!

I know what my tutor would say, 'give up sleeping.' That was his claim to frame, he slept for only 4 hours for like 10 years. But I can't do that! I'd be too tired to do anything and right now, being so pushed about, I think that would only add to my stress. Anyway, I'm sure you don't really want to hear about this, so I'll get on to my title......

New bar in Ormskirk!

On Thursday one of my friends had one of her friends from home come down for the day to visit her and get to see her life at uni. We went shopping in Liverpool, had tea and then came back to Ormskirk for a night out. We had a great time and when we had to leave the bar at 1am, we felt it was too early for us, so we went back to my house and there decided to go on to the park which is just opposite my house on the fields. It was here that whilst taking photos, that I suddenly become aware that something wasn't right.......we were not alone on the field......and on viewing my photos I found something very strange....

What can you see in the mist?


When we got back, I showed my friends the photos and we tried to come up with scientific explanations, but we could arrive at none other point then the fact that the field was haunted by something......

A ghostly hand grips the wrist of my friend.

So now we are scared to go back on the field! I think it'll be awhile until we go out again as well, because I spent all of Friday recovering and I've got more work to do as well......

Anyway, if you have any ideas about the photos or you see something in them, please leave me a commit, I'd love to hear from you.

Easter Sunday Walk

We found this starfish

Yesterday, I hit the beach with my dog, parents and youngest brother. We tend to go on long walks during bank holidays, because we like doing family things together and at home spending this time together can be hard because everyone wants to do there own thing in their own space. So, my plan was to go to Bolton Abbey, but they were having a huge Easter egg hunt and it was decided that to avoid the young kids-speically with grumpy Sandy-We'd go to St. Anne's in Lytham instead.

Being use to such chances of a sudden weather change, we all dressed warmly. I was glad of my jumper once we hit the beach, it was so windy that the warmth from the sun was almost lost most of the time. The beach was busy with walkers through, people who'd braved the weather to take their dogs out or they kids to ride the donkeys.

Sandy had fun digging



The dragon kite

Mum got this kite for her birthday, being a lover of dragons and kites. Now adays we spend much of our camping hoildays flying kite and it seemed fitting to give the dragon his first flight on the beach.

He was a site to see! All those bright colours against a blue sky and the wind carried him high, so that he could be seen across the beach. He was easy to fly as well because he only had one string. The best part was though, when you pulled on the string his wings flapped, so he gainned more air time! He'll be coming on holiday with us for so now.

I've still got easter eggs to eat, which is a good thing. I'm still trying to loss weight at the minute, but its sort of had a set back because my other brother has decided to take up all the time on the Wii fit, so its hard for me to get a look in now. I'll keep trying though!

I've nearly finished Treasure Island now. I've got more into it then Dorian Gray-which I give up on, it was taking too long. I've got another book that goes with Island and its Captain Flints and Sliver's story, though I'm not sure how that's going to be because it was only published in 2009.

Oh, my Easter nest cakes are nearly ready....time to carry on with the bank holiday!