My name is Orla and I will be the narrator of Sundays. Sundays are good because I'll have the whole week to worry about how my post is terrible compared to everyone else's!
I write poetry and I just finished a three week writing course, so now I have some ridiculously high standards. There were some very talented prose writers in that class.
I am fifteen, so I'll probably be the youngest contributor to this collab blog. People tell me I come across older than that, most likely due to a reasonable vocabulary and general sensibleness. I am generally not silly about important things. Projects, however, are the bane of my life.
I like to write. I write poetry mostly but I have a couple of short stories in my head and, as they say, everyone has a novel in them. My poetry is apparently quite dark. It just seems honest to me, mostly. I guess I could be accurately described as an angsty teenage poet.
I also like to read. I don't read exclusively in one genre, but I do tend to read a lot of fantasy, and, more specifically, a lot of high fantasy. I'm sort-of-not-really reading James Joyce's Ulysses at the moment. It's...an experience.
I am currently teaching myself Chinese. 我 不 是 很 好
I like music a lot, but, unusually, I'm very easy going about what kind of music I listen to. I can enjoy basically any music a lot.
I play video games. Not too much at the moment because I am inexplicably busy. I find that I don't have enough time for them even though I don't have a lot of other things going on. It's the summer holidays goddammit, when am I going to have time?
I have a horrible habit of over-thinking things, which I am doing right now. It usually takes me a while to get to the stage in a friendship where I'm not analysing everything I say. And everything they say. And general body language. And all sorts of other completely irrelevant information.
Making new friends is a tiring experience.
Hopefully it won't take me too long to get comfortable writing this blog.
- Orla
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