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Hmm this is rather a lot of space to write about me...

My name is Rosie and I'm currently 18.

I know its taken me a long time to do this - I mean I've had this account for I don't know how long, like two or three years now :/. And I know that maybe some of you have read my story which I first began publishing six months ago so its not even like I haven't written anything yet. By the way - thankyou to all who read and reviewed 'An interesting break' and 'Forever After', apologies for leaving it so long before updating.

I have been fortunate to live in both Wales and New Zealand and I can't wait to get back over to NZ or back to Wales, where I'm hoping to go to uni - at the moment I'm in England somewhere. Oh and by the way you may have got the idea that I am mad about horses - I think I gave it away in my name to be honest...

Most of the time I try to write in canon, and use the story lines given by the rightfull authors. I love it that Ginny and Harry are together and I think that its perfect that Ron and Hermione are together. I know 'An interesting break' deviates from the canoness and I think that we all know that Hermione would most certainatly not do anything as irresponsible as that but I went through a bit of a phase of Hermione and Charlie. Lets be honest - all us girls like the idea of a rugged, dragon tamer ;). Having read a few other stories though I have realised that my chapters in 'Forever After' were stupidly short so you can expect the chapters to get a damn sight longer now. My Heartland story hopefully shows this, the idea has been in my head for a long time but like I say I haven't had the time to get it down until now! I'm not promising anything but I also have a wicked idea for a series of Mcleods Daughters one shots and I would like to write a Twilight Bella/Jacob one shot. Team Jacob all the way :)

I hope you enjoy what I write, please don't be afraid to provide some good old constructive critiscism - I'm man enough to take it. Just don't be downright nasty.

UPDATED: 17th July 2011

Have finished my A-levels!!! Woo!! And I have a real writing bug, which is ridiculously strong at the moment. Literally all I can think about and all I want to do is write! So this is what is happening with my stories:

FOREVER AFTER: for those of you who haven't read the A/N chapter, this story is on hiatus for the minute. Have just had a glance at the traffic stats and this story remains to be the most read, even with Always There having just gone up! Can't quite believe that and so I intend on re-writing it and re-posting it as a version 2! Keep an eye out for that.

COMING BACK HOME: Think that I will pick this back up for sure, but it is likely to get a bit of a revamp. So don't be surprised if all the chapters change around and so on. There are a few more chapters in my head to finish off the initial story line, and then I think it'll drop into a series of one-shots of Heartland life after that. It is being finished off!

And then there's some new stuff on the way:

SWEET SILVER LINING: a one-shot challenge sent to me by a friend that I'm working on. I've decided to use Ron and Hermione for this because I love them SO much! It's basically a 100 one-shots (of varying length) of clips from their lives after the war, trying to stay as canon as possible. So far I have about 10 done but I'm not sure whether to post them in chronological order or the order of the prompts? I think it'll be the order of the prompts but that is going to involve me finishing them in order so it could be a while before I publish that one.

ALWAYS THERE: This story will focus on Ginny and how she copes with the loss of her soul mate. I know I won't include as much of the other characters as much as they deserve but I shall try. I intend to take the story to the end of the summer where Ginny and Hermione return to school and Ron and Neville join an auror academy. I did not want Harry to be killed off and am so relieved that he wasn't but I think that it would have been Neville that Ginny ended up with, not a tall, dark, unknown stranger as Harry imagined. I believe that this is what Harry would have wanted. I have never wanted to think about what would have happened had Harry died and it took until now to do so. A song by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls, Open at the Close made me think of what would happen to Ginny if Harry had died, the lyrics: 'Ginny please don't you cry, know I'll always love you.' I find really touching and moving. I cried the first time I heard the song, it really is that beautiful and moving. I was mostly inspired, however, by a BBC3 programme called 'Our War'. It uses soldiers footage to record their experiences of the war in Afghanistan and the first of the episodes (shown on the 7th of June 2011) details the death of a 19 year old soldier on his first tour. Most of the company were of a similar age and also on their first tour. I can't imagine, firstly, what is would be like to be in those soldiers position and, secondly, what I would do if I lost any of my family or friends. I have a couple of friends who are going to join the forces and, selfish as it is, I really wish they weren't. To all those soldiers who put their lives on the line, I am truly grateful and humbled by your bravery.

So yes, I do indeed have a real writing bug. And I have more plans for writing - I wouldn't mind some feedback on my plans for my own story. It's a bit semi-autobiographical novel, about the past couple years of my life, I know some people say that you have to start writing about your own experiences and this is my aim. I have had the most amazing two years whilst doing my A-levels and even I can see the change in myself. I'm not trying to say 'oohh look at me, my life has been so dramatic these past couple of years'' but I want to share my experiences of friendships, questioning sexuality and morality, heartbreak (from both boys and failure) and overcoming it, trying to balance life's demands. I have made many mistakes and I want to share what I've learnt with others. Obviously I will change quite a bit but if anyone has any opinions, feel free to PM or email me. I really do love feedback, so I won't get upset if people don't like the idea or think I'm being a bit self-absorbed!! None of my family or friends know about my ideas or plans for it, but I do want to know whether its a good idea or not :)

Thank you so so much for taking the time to read this, my stories and providing feedback :) its such a brilliant feeling when you see Review Alerts in your inbox!!

UPDATE: 28th September 2011

Argh!!!! I'm sorry, I'm sorry :(

I have been very bad this summer and not fulfilled my promises, I really have pretty much no one else to blame but myself... I'm sorry :( I don't know what happened, I guess having a lazy summer didn't help. The weather came good so I spent a lot of time outside and then when it was wet I was just like, yeah... I'll do some writing tomorrow. Oh and getting Sims 3 generations didn't help either (good game, recommended for anyone :) and I'm looking forward to the pets expansion pack when that arrives :D oh I am bad... so very bad).

So basically yes. I got distracted and I didn't do much writing for you guys. I have, however started my novel and I am now on Jottify (same user name as on here, horsemadhorsegal). On there I am posting, what I call, shorts. Short stories and ideas which I get. These will fit into a story one day, who knows when or where but they're up there if anyone would like a read. At the moment there is just the one. I need more comments and feedback on my writing - I love feedback in everything I do, particularly writing. Whilst a lot of what I write is purely for myself, I put it out there for other people to read and give there ideas so please don't hold back! I'm not encouraging flaming but I really do want to know what people want to read, what they think of my style of writing etc etc. Seriously comment. Even if you didn't like it.

Anyway, unfortunately, now that I have started uni, I don't know how much writing I'll do - I do know that writing down memories and snapshots and dreams feels pretty therapeutic at the moment. I'm not homesick as such, but there are certain people who I am missing seeing.

Thank you again for reading this ever increasing monologue, and for reading my stories :)