Status: Passed my driving test :D (and working on updates for FF and Cold, once I've done some revision!) (1 month ago)

off_piste

Name	F.A. Blenheim
Location	England
Member Since	Apr 16, 2011
Votes Received	383
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♠ Things I like ♠
-skiing
-cars
-photography
-history
-tea
-reading and writing (o.O really!?)
-traveling

♠ Books I like ♠
Animal Farm- George Orwell 
The Secret Countess- Eva Ibbotson
A Gathering Light- Jennifer Donnelly
Captain Corelli's Mandolin- Louis de Bernières
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
Persuasion- Jane Austen
A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini

♠ I have an ever-so-slight obsession with Keep Calm and Carry On 
I own: the mug, the keyring, the canvas, the spoof poster, the Oyster card wallet, the postcard, the book, and the tote bag. 

♠ I've been writing since I was seven years old and to date have only finished one book! Nonetheless, my goal is to be published, one day. 

♠ I get a lot of my inspiration from my history lessons and from traveling, from seeing how other people might have lived/live today. 

MISSION- to correct all those poor misinformed Wattpad individuals who write 'could care less' when really they mean 'couldn't care less'. 
STATUS- incomplete. I've got a long way to go. 
WILL YOU JOIN ME ON MY NOBLE CRUSADE?

N/B: A-Levels are horrible, stressy things of the upmost importance. Updates might be a tad slow whilst I work on securing my place at university.

Works

Cold

3 parts / 8 pages, updated Apr 04, 2013 PG-13

As in life and on the mountain, conditions can change quickly, with disastrous consequences. The sun's shining, the snow’s perfect, you’re on top form as you carve your way down. A s... read more

57 reads

Finding Felicity

14 parts / 44 pages, updated Feb 28, 2013 PG-13

Her sister Grace is graceful. And beautiful and charming and witty. Felicity however lacks all that and her own namesake; happiness. Overshadowed and taunted by her twin s... read more

2,099 reads

138

All Change (Coming Summer 2013)

2 parts / 3 pages, updated Apr 07, 2012 PG-13

Georgie Reynolds' pretty head harbours a pretty incredible brain, but she wastes it by trying to satisfy her insatiable appetite for partying. Her normal Fri... read more

189 reads

Teach Me How To Live

16 parts / 46 pages, updated Jan 29, 2012 PG-13

She is crippled by an irrational fear, driving her to become a relentless worker and over-achiever. He is haunted by the past, leaving him bitter and cruel. It isn’t h... read more

9,445 reads

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The Beginning of the End

2 pages, updated Jan 06, 2012

A short piece I wrote whilst on holiday, inspired by the atmosphere in Normandy around the invasion beaches.

42 reads

872 Days (Research Hiatus)

2 pages, updated Apr 30, 2011 PG-13

We had so much to fear. The hunger, the cold, the Germans, the work, the filth; everyone feared and was feared. It wasn’t only these which could kill you. People w... read more

172 reads

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off_piste
1 month ago

Rather than writing Finding Felicity, or Teach Me How to Live (or revising for exams...), I've been updating Cold, regardless of the fact it is the least popular. I've got the skiing bug. It'd mean a lot to me if you could check it out and give any feedback. Thanks!

Ilovesweets
1 month ago

Thanks a ton for following!
Hope you keep reading my stuff.

Sweets xoxo

off_piste
2 months ago

@Firefly9091 I definitely do plan on continuing Teach Me How to Live... eventually. School has just had me so busy this past year, and I've left it so long I've lost the plot a little bit. I'm afraid I can't make any promises about when I might upload apart from a vague 'some time in summer'. It could be sooner though, if I get a chance. Thanks for voting though! :)

Firefly9091
2 months ago

Are you going to contine Teach Me How To Live because I really enjoyed reading it.

off_piste
2 months ago

A miracle! Finding Felicity is updated! Glory be, I thought the day would never come. 

Read and let me know what you think! (also feel free to be a teensy bit mad that I took so long, even though I would say it wasn't really my fault...)

Kirkinator
4 months ago

@off_piste Fencing term for going out of the "pitch", which is called a piste.

I have Achilles tendonitis in my left ankle.  I actually wore holes in the tendon, and if I fall over with skis attached to my foot, the tendon might snap.  Fortunately, it's getting better, but it's a complete pain.

off_piste
4 months ago

@Kirkinator No problem :) 

Yes, it is skiing. I wasn't even aware it's a fencing term!
What happened to your ankle? :(

off_piste
4 months ago

@Kirkinator No problem :) 

And yes, it's skiing. I wasn't even aware it's a fencing term!
What happened to your ankle? :(

Kirkinator
4 months ago

Thanks for fanning me!

By your profile name, I'm guessing you either like skiing or fencing.  If it's skiing, you lucky person.  I can't ski because of my ankle :/

-Kirky^^

off_piste
7 months ago

Well, I think it's fairly obvious that Finding Felicity will not be finished in time for the Watty Awards. I really did pick the most stupid year to start writing it! It will of course be finished, but there are a lot of pressures on me at the moment and I'm sure you can understand if I put my university application (possibly deciding the rest of my life) ahead of my recreational writing. 
I hope everyone will continue to support Finding Felicity even though it's not in the Watty's anymore. The next few weeks are the run up to the Oxford admissions test, so I'm going to be super stressed and busy, but I'll try and get some writing in. Just don't be disappointed.

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