Welcome to my world!

Welcome to my world!

Greetings, fellow creatures, and welcome to the launch of my new blog; One Pen, Six Essays. Before I go into everything it will entail, let me introduce myself.

I’m Amy Hopkins, and I’m also known on the ‘net as Amelie Elizabet Grey, fanfiction and fictionpress writer (click on the links to check out my profiles!), protector of the weak, loud of the mouth, opinionated of the mind and appreciative of the fine forms. I’m seventeen, young and not-so-spry (though that’s a blog post for another time!), blonde and definitely odd-looking, but you can judge me by your own standards as soon as I upload a picture. I’m quirky, smart, socially awkward and very, very, very much infatuated with the past. But enough about that.

The fact that you still deem this readable is, in itself, a miracle.

I decided to name this blog One Pen Six Essays because I myself am taking six A Level subjects as well as one extra GCSE, at the current moment in time and I, like I’m sure many people my age are, am rushed off my feet and feeling like there’s no time to write these essays, no ability to do all this work with just one pen. But my greatest weapon is my pen, and so I shall persevere.

I hope I haven’t scared you all off.

I won’t just be posting about how difficult my life is, because bemoaning my actually rather fortunate universe is a waste of time and, I am reliably informed, makes me sound like a complete snob (although I go to a Grammar School and am decidedly middle class, so it kind of goes with the job); instead I’ll be giving tips on how I keep up with my hectic schedule, I’ll be posting advice and analysis into things that I wished I had been able to access when I was struggling (like analysis of literature, a summary of Stalin’s Russia etc) and commenting on things I like. I think my next post will be about the new issue of Glamour magazine, which I bought this morning on the train. Oh yes, I am a commuter. Fear me, all ye who travel.

Live long and prosper,

Amy.