After blogging for over a year, it’s only now that I realise I ought to edit the ‘About’ section and put my own information in. Oops.

Blacking out the fiction is my not-so-clever play on Deathcab for Cutie’s song “Blacking out the Friction”, which I was a big fan of a couple of years back (still am, actually – it’s a great song, I just haven’t listened to it in a while…)

It’s also a record of various aspects of my life and includes reviews, confessional entries, random rants, and some of my creative writing.

If you read this blog, you’re likely to find numerous references to religion, the 1940′s, Tori Amos, and books from the ‘canon’ (which I’ve embarked upon eighteen years too late).

This is my third year studying Creative Arts at Melbourne Uni – where I learn about writing, literature, film, gender and cultural studies – all from a uniquely white, middle-class, left-wing, post-modern perspective.

And no, I don’t know what I want to do after I finish my degree.