2013 is going to be a great year!

Hey everyone!!

I GOT A PLACE ON FUTURE STARS 2013!!!!

This weekend has been a very good one indeed. As it says above (and in pink), I won a place in the competition I talked about in my last blog and couldn't be happier. I was so convinced it wouldn't happen - I even dreamt that I didn't get it on Friday night so I had subconsciously prepared myself for the worst. When I woke up, I was in a bit of a crappy mood and as is the norm, I reached over to check my phone. As I was scrolling though tweets, facebooks and emails, I was saying to Harry "I know I haven't got it, but it's ok, it's ok. Something will come up, I'm sure..." and that's when I saw the email from Miranda telling me I'd won a place. In the following order, I screamed, burst into tears, rugby tackled H and laughed like a madwoman.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so excited for what 2013 is going to bring me. The last few weeks were getting me down massively because I haven't worked for a while, nor have any auditions come my way and this time last year, I was having the best time of my professional career doing Bloody Poetry. I think about doing that play and it aches that I'm not doing it now. The kind of chemistry that job produced was very rare and will be hard to replicate many more times in my career. So the fact that I've got Future Stars to throw myself into is so exciting and something for me to pour a creative outlet in to and I can't wait.

I'll be b/vlogging about everything, so I hope you'll join me on what promises to be an awesome year! 

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The Eleven O' Clock News

Hi everyone :)

Thought it was about time for another blog. There's nothing major to update you with - no acting jobs to speak of or anything - but generally wanted to say hello :)

Actually, I do have a bit of "news"... I am going to enter a competition for writing, which I am really excited about. I've been writing for years, I remember writing my first short story when I was 11 and taking inspiration from the film Beaches - it was about 2 best friends who went to Secondary School together and were best friends forever - one of them became a famous actress, the other a doctor and then the actress developed a rare disease and kind of, well, died and the doctor friend (as she was appointed godmother) then took care of her actress friend's child... Actually, it was a complete rip-off of Beaches but with a West London take on it..... 
   The kind of stories I like to write could be deemed chick-lit but that's fine with me because it's what I like to read and it's obviously a hugely popular genre. I love writing about people falling in and out of love, having a close group of friends, laughing, crying, general madness that sometimes involves cake and shopping - and that for me is chick-lit and I don't apologise for it because to those who have a problem with it, well, they don't have to buy it, do they?
   So the competition is being organised and run by one of my favourite authors Miranda Dickinson (get following on Twitter @wurdsmyth) and it involves mentoring sessions with Miranda herself, meetings with literary agents and publishers, guidance and help etc.. It all sounds incredible and something I would kill to be part of so am v excited about that. Gives me a little buzz whenever I think about it; such a wonderful opportunity. It might sound a bit trite but there is nothing I like better than setting my laptop on my knee and letting my hands fly over the keyboard creating characters and stories for people to read. I say people, my mum and H are the two who have read anything and they like it (but then that could be bias!).
   For me, it's on a par with being in a rehearsal room creating a character from a script. Hugely enjoyable and something I like to think I'm quite good at. Quite good at, but always learning, always gaining. 
   I've got a few ideas at the moment and have started writing a novel which for the first time in a really long time, I feel has some merit to it. The thing is, I start to write things and then get lost in too many ideas and abandon. But this time, I feel really good about it and think it might be the idea I'll use when I submit my application. However, it's quite a convoluted story and if someone were to ask me how I'd like to end it, I'd have to reply with an honest "I've no idea yet!". 

Anywho.... That's all I wanted to say really. So that is my first plan for 2013. I'll keep you updated on how it goes!

Em xxx