I'm not paid much as a career. I'm not moaning because I do get a set amount of money a week and it's enough to sustain my lifestyle which if I'm honest is very nice.

What I mean is that although £60 a week seems like it might be a lot, with bills and things that I pay and contribute to the household there's not much left for me to save for presents and other things this time of year and it has proved to be a little stressful I think I've coped quite well this year given the addition of a whole new section of family and a siblings girlfriend added to the Christmas list.

I've spent what I needed to and saved on some by hand making some presents this year which is really a win win because people love homemade things and I've only really had to buy a frame for a couple of pieces.

In all honesty though I still feel like my presents are going to be underwhelming in comparison to what everyone else gives everyone else and I know they say it's not about how much it has cost and that's fine in theory but in our pretty materialistic world the value of something is often reflected in the cost. I just want them to know I've tired my best. The men in out family aren't super easy to shop for but I've tried really hard with gifts this year, for the gifts to be thoughtful or funny and just to be enjoyed, practical uses or otherwise.

Now I want to know how you've saved money this year or whether you've splurged for your love ones this year and whether you had a time finding gifts this year. Throw some comments down below and we'll get a discussion going.

Cheers and Merry Bloody Christmas.

I hope it's actually not, if it is... is than and FA (Fanfics Anonymous) group I can join in the south of England area? ha ha


There are a few known sights that allow writers to post fan-fiction that may or may not include well written graphic intercourse scenes and I'm not going to lie, I've written a not bad one myself.

I've been reading a lot over the last few days and while I used to think sitting next to mum on the sofa reading explicit intercourse scenes between characters of a TV show that someone has thought up was uncomfortable, I've kind of gotten over that now. I just have to make sure I'm not giggling along when the characters are embarrassed or someone makes a joke so bad it's good.

In all seriousness I think fan-fiction is an excellent way to stretch you're writing muscles and a way to give those aspiring writers a way to explore their style without having to make up characters, but give those characters alternate universe story lines and new relationships. These aspiring writers get to play with someone else's creation and a lot of the stuff on (ex.) http://archiveofourown.org has some really great prose and . These people who've spent time on a work of this fiction and then let others basically say what they want has allowed for peer to peer critiquing among the best people int he world - fangirls and fanboys.

The idea of Fanfiction was even taken notice by the creators of a little show called supernatural and was presented pretty well in one of the nest episodes of season ten, of the same name. It's almost a phenomenon.

It's a whole world of stories and alternate lives of the characters from TV that you've fallen in love with. I dare anyone whose read this, I implore you even to pick a character from any TV show, head over to Archive of our own, linked above and type in the name(s) of the character(s) you've chosen and I could offer a 90% chance of there having been at least one fan written fiction on that character.
A particularly interesting set of fics pop up if you put in Jesse Pinkman and yes the first one is as the title suggests. Read it. It made me laugh.

It's honestly a really fun thing to discover, so let me know if you've discovered some interesting and well written fan fiction and take my advice even if it's something you never thought you;'d want to do, it might be worth it to find a story that pulls you in.

Have a nice week everyone.

Cheers.