Monday 22 April 2013

Exams, Monologues, and Literature, oh my!

Part 1: Exams

Yup, it's that time of the year again. Exam season. And you know what? This time the grades that I get actually count for something. As in, if I do well in these exams, I've got a place at one of the UK's top universities. If I don't, then I'm screwed. So yeah, pressure. Here's to hoping I can get that AAB!

Part 2: Monologues

My audition monologues may not have gotten me into drama school, but I don't want all that hard work to go to waste. Following exam season, I shall upload renditions of my four favourite monologues: Hippolita from 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Titania from Midsummer Night's Dream; Rosalind from As You Like It; and Queen Margaret from...well, pretty much all of Shakespeare's histories, but more specifically Henry VI Part III

...Remind me why Juliet is the Classical monologue that everyone knows and jumps at?

Part 3: Literature.

I'm considering starting up a series of posts, yet again, after exam season, discussing my responses and interpretations of different plays, poems, and novels, everything from Young Adult to Gothic Horror. These interpretations and 'essays', if you will, will be open for any students, such as myself, to use as sources and critics for coursework. I'll mainly be doing this to improve my essay writing skills between 6th Form and Uni, but I understand how hard it can be to find literary critics with alternative or otherwise out there interpretations of texts.

And now this is in a blog post, I guess I have to commit. Permission granted to e-slap me if I don't pop up again around August time

P.S- My Blogger commenting is really glitchy, as in, I can't respond to comments. Sorry guys :(

Monday 1 April 2013

Posts without a plan

Oh god, I hate exam season so so much. It's annoying to the point where I can't even plan a blog post, let alone write one! I'll get a little bit of inspiration, and then, as if by magic, poof! It's gone.

Take, for example, the other day. I had a great idea for a post, 'What is worthy literature?' I knew what my argument was, I knew exactly how I was going to express it. However, when it came to planning out my argument in stages my mind went blank. It is such a pain, because this thing is finally beginning to get some regular readers, which is admittedly strange to me- Why on earth would you want to read this blog of un-planned, pseudo-sarcastic mess? Not only that, but when you Google 'Teenage life blog' I'm one of the first results, and I have absolutely no idea how.

I don't know. Maybe I'll post you my character's journal from Skyrim, one thing that I am actually able to write without blocking up horribly, or a couple of screenshot from my latest picture. What say you?