Studying community health :)
Easily inspired by nature and people with good virtues, as well as music and literature of course. However my motivation level seems to sway itself between procastination and other factors such as writer's block and paranoia.
I like to collect quotes that are funny, motivational and even just truthful (thanks to the 'motivational/quotes of the day' application on iGoogle and Twitter). Well, used to.
I think that my major influence comes from the experience of depression at the age of about fifteen and around then, after that I became very motivated and inspired to make a change in young people's lives. I'm also an amatuer free verse poet, most of the poems I write are aimed to inspire, or evoke similar emotions.
As a writer a find it hard to come up with storylines, but when I do have one I can run pretty fast with it haha. I'll leave the rest up to you :)
Some of the best books I've read are as follows:
- Split by Tara Moss
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Mag Hags by Lollie Barr (an incredible first novel about a group of adolescent girls who are forced to work together and settling their differences)
- Care Factor Zero by Margaret Clark
- Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
- In The Lake Of The Woods by Tim O'Brien
- A Place of Safety by Helen Black
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson
- The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
And heaps others which I forget the names of. Anyway, have a read of my stuff, let me know what you think :)
