I love to write! It's as simple as that. I am a freelance writer as of this year. My main passion is Poetry, with creative writing falling a close second. I am also quite fond of writing product reviews. I like the depth of research that's needed to present a complete picture to the consumer. I write for several online consumer review Companies, where I advise consumers on a varied selection of products. My other main passion is the medium of film. My taste is quite diverse with a particular love of foreign cinema.

I love the English language. I love words, their meanings and structure. I studied English Language and English Literature, and I love all aspects of the written word. - What is it that compels us to write? I think writers are a strange, solitary breed, that feel a great need to express themselves with the written word. Writing is a compulsion, a drive, an all consuming need. 'I write. Therefore I am'.

The life of a writer is a crazy world. I write all night, and sleep by day. I am nocturnal, and draw my most inspiration when darkness falls. It all started when I won a poetry prize at boarding school when I was 10, and here I am today, still writing. My Poetry has been published when I was younger, and again recently. I read my poetry for the BBC when taking part in a poetry marathon for charity on behalf of the University Poetry club. I enjoy attending poetry slams with other performance artists. I also put my words to music, and have written quite a few songs. One day I'll do something with them; one day -

'I always wanted to be a Poet, a writer, with words endlessly dripping through the tips of my fingers, onto paper forever imprinted.'

'I always wanted to be a rapper, a singer, an interpreter of words, with the silver delivery, the vocal impresser, the audio enhancer with the power of my chords.'

' I always wanted to be an actor, a narrator, with my spoken persuasion, a clown in a mask for the whole world to see. Painting a smile for every occasion, applauding my audience with gay reverie.'

Christianna Garrett-Martin. Excerpt from 'Always'.

The trouble is I always wanted to be a lot of things.

I am very competitive, and enjoy entering various writing competitions, and I have won and placed in many. I have also placed two times out of three on Helium. So I am pleased with that, - It's a start, and I am currently writing for the publishers and hope to be chosen soon. *I am published! - I entered for the first time last week and was chosen :) I am very happy!~This site holds amazing potential for the serious writer. I am dyslexic which is a real frustration, and writing an article can take me a very long time.-

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Relationships & Family > Cheating Spouses & Affairs Is chatting online considered cheating?

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- ONLINE CHEATING - CYBER CHEATING -

= Or: How to deceive your partner in 5 easy lessons =

What is appropriate and what is not appropriate when you are in a relationship? Can contact by chatting with the opposite sex online be construed as cheating'? After all, a computer is only a machine, not flesh and blood. How can striking up an online relationship be seen as cheating?

As far as I am concerned it can be; and very damaging it is too, in many ways. Though a grey area, emailing and messaging a member of the opposite sex other than your partner, can be very destructive; a betrayal of...

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