Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Day 346

It has been ages since I last posted in this blog. Sorry. It's because I've been focusing on the fictional blog I started last year (and mentioned in the last post). I've also been busy with this term's maths. It's so much more difficult than what we had to do last term. Everyone I asked had trouble with it. Even the people who asked for help from the lecturer didn't really understand it well enough to explain it. But the lack of posts on here in January has been down to the amount of posts elsewhere.

I think the fictional blog will be set to public (yes Mum, that means you'll be able to read it) on the first of March, and there will be a new post every day for the first two months. After that there will be a new post every two days.

In Y9 English, when we had to write a story entitled "A Knock at the Door", my submission collected the highest mark in the class. The blog is written from the point of view of one of the characters from that story and follows him from about six months before that story was set until about two months after. When my teacher handed "A Knock at the Door" back he said that, if I put my mind to it, I could write a novel when I was older. Studying for a maths degree probably wasn't what he meant by "put your mind to it", but I've liked the idea of fleshing out this A Knock at the Door world ever since. If you read Sahtahp's Journal, a blog I wrote as if it was my character's diary on Oblivion, then you can expect something similar, except this time I won't be restricted by what's programmed into a game. Also, my world will be much bigger and the main character won't be trying to save it from the off so there'll be some nice, relaxed days here and there. I suppose you could think of Sahtahp's Journal as the failed first attempt that I decided to scrap and begin again from scratch.