About The Author

Rose Ghost is an British artist (her chosen forms are prose and poetry writing and reviews) currently living in Mansfield (she is actually half Nottingham and half Derby but she lives in Mansfield). However her heart is stuck on some bus somewhere between Mansfield and Nottingham.

‘My Life In Reverse’ is the latest in a long line of blog/websites Rose Ghost has started to try and give herself a bit of media coverage in the harsh modern world of experimentalist writing. Some of her previous blogs can be found here:

Touchwolf
Blof of the Problematique
The Literatti

Unfortunately, Rose hasn’t been doing much writing recently (for the past two years) due to various ‘problems’ – work, fear of being no good, boredom, lack of motivation etc. At the moment the main excuses are the fact she has a one hour bus ride to Nottingham five days a week, she has recently unofficially split up with someone she accidentally fell in love with, and that real life is just too interesting. Balls.

Rose is an incredibly egotistic little sod who believes that the world revolves around her alone. She has a penchant for whinging and moaning about the unfairness and horriblness of her life and cruelty of people she shares the hideous world with. She thinks that people should stop what they are doing and jump to her every whim and she also enjoys talking about herself in the third person, as though she was a queen or a celebrity (although of course none is more so than her…).

Despite this, Rose Ghost has a very sharp paranoid streak. This is the girl who thinks that every meeting between her bosses is about her and the topic of the meeting is weather or not they should sack her for being generally useless. And also the girl who thinks that her relationship is over if she doesn’t speak to her boyfriend for a week. Considering the way she was treated at school by some of her so-called friends and the way she was treated by a certain company based in Mansfield earlier this year it is hardly surprising. Just let me build myself up a little before you knock me down again, yeah?

Rose has always wanted to be a writer, because it’s the only things she’s ever really been any good at, and she isn’t that good at writing. She has a massive problems with plots and prefers her stories to have as little in that way as possible, preferring to write about feelings and uses a lot of pretty words to make up for her lack of plotting skill.

Likes: Muse, Maximo Park, The Fratellis, (bands). Grapes, wine, Men who look a bit like a cross between David Tennant and Dean from Supernatural, wine, crisps, loud rock music, gigs, wine, Black Books, Family Guy, Wine, reading, animals, riding in buses, bikes, cars, Top Gear, shoes, earrings, H&M (the shop), wine, writing (sometimes), Jeff Buckley .

Dislikes: Spiders, olives, James Blunt, WestlIfe, red wine, whisky, chavs, unintelligent people, her lack of motivation, R & B music, pretty girls, girls in general, people who pretend to be more interesting than me.

Some random words to describe Rose Ghost:

Alcoholic, unmotivated, dreamer, egocentric, likes Maximo Park, Capricorn, eclectic, Derren Brown wannabe, intriped ghost fearer, atheist, word bender.

Rose is shortly to take part in National Novel Writing Month, for the second time. She won by 140 words last year, after writing about 12000 words in the last 12 hours of the competition. This year she is going to attempt to finish a complete novel in the alloted 30 days, without doing any planning whatsoever. You can find her under the name living_in_reverse on the Nano forums.

Rose Ghost is currently owned by three cats. She also owns one dog, two spider plants and an ivy plant called Baxter.