Development
-
I actually hated English in school
Math was my favourite subject, followed by the sciences and then history, throughout all of primary school and the first couple of years of high school. It wasn’t until about Year 10 that I realised that my strength was actually… Continue reading
-
Writing Tools: for Teenage Me
In high school, I was given a school laptop. I saved up from my first job and bought a fairly cheap printer from the Post Office on the corner of the main street. The ink almost cost more than the… Continue reading
-
Writing Sci-Fi as a Fantasy Major
I love science-fiction. It’s fantasy but at the other end of the spectrum, technology replacing magic. Recently, I’ve started writing a little bit of science fiction, but the problem is: I don’t know science ( ° ᗜ ° “) I… Continue reading
-
The Caves of Steel Taught Me Some Words
I don’t know how useful these words from the 1950s will be for me writing in the 2020s but there’s a few fun ones to salvage. Continue reading
-
Writing Tools: Study With Me (Body Doubling)
Before I knew what it was called “body doubling”, I was using “study with me” videos on YouTube to help me study and write. I bought it in September 2024, not long after it was first released and I have… Continue reading
-
Self-Structured Learning: Language & Mathematics
My sister and I started a self-study journey a couple of years ago. Though life has constantly gotten into the way, in the last couple of months we’ve greatly improved the foundations of this long term commitment. We had interrupted… Continue reading
-
My first “Exegetical” Essay—Still don’t quite know what it means (Year 1)
She’s written a lot, the penner of legendaries. But now her quota is a Romance. Polaris has never written a Romance, having always turned her nose up at them. Now she’s been ordered to complete one and is given a… Continue reading
-
Assessment Task 1: Literature Review
Note: this was the second literature review that I’d ever written (I failed the first one when I was studying social work at UQ). For some more context, I rewrote the entire essay the day off. I didn’t realise there… Continue reading
-
First Essay of the Indigenous Knowledges Minor, 2019 (final submission, no further edits)
KKB191 Am I Black Enough? Assessment Task 2: Reflective Essay Word Count: 1925 Reflective Essay | Am I Enough? Upon entering this minor, I had an idea of what I expected and hoped to learn. I wanted to receive formal… Continue reading
-
KWB113 AT1 | Uni, Year 1
| Task 4: A Scene With Tension | The hole is getting bigger. Even with the rain letting some of the dirt slide back in. A puddle was starting to form at the bottom and it caused a little splash… Continue reading