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Reading Round-Up: March
Missed a few months there! I’d make excuses about why, but I think we can all relate to things slipping through the cracks in times of high stress. Anyway, here are the books I’ve read lately, as always, I’ll mention which books were ARCs. Talia Hibbert – Get a Life, Chloe Brown / Take a…
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Writing Update: Flavours of Prose
What a month! We had it all: health scares, long-listings, MA assignments, curriculum updates, plays, binge reading, and the ever-encroaching world around us. I had a weird time of it, that’s to be sure. The health stuff really threw me for a loop as it’s the first time I’ve been sick while living in Tokyo…
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False Starts and Figuring Out Structure
In trying to get myself started on my new novel, I have been doing a lot of things I’ve never attempted before. All this time I’ve been a consummate ‘pantser’, someone who writes without much of a plan in mind. Normally I start writing purely because I have a scene in mind, sometimes it might…
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Reading Round Up: September
Not too many books read for fun this month. I started back up at work and got buried a bit. Some of these titles were ARCs from Netgalley and I’ve indicated that below. But here are the things I managed to get through. All Come to Dust Bryony Rheam (ARC) This was a deeply character…
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Writing Update
As we here in Tokyo trundle back into another ‘lockdown’ or whatever the government is calling it this time, I find myself with more time on my hands. Which is both a blessing and a curse. My day job has gone back online for now, which cuts down on the amount of time I spend…
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Writing Update
This week went well writing wise! Wow alliteration. It comes as a surprise to be simply because of the amount of random untoward personal life stuff. A friend is going through some health issues. Some scary health issues. Work kicked off in the kind of way where it feels a lot like you’re drowning. But…
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Writing Update
So, as I have mentioned, I suck at consistently writing. Partially, it has to do with my ADHD. I tend to want to hyper focus on one thing and then I spiral. If that one thing is writing? Great! I once bashed out 60,000 words over the course of two months. But if it’s not?…
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Reading Round Up
This month I read a rather eclectic few books. I find since my childhood my reading has slowed down. I used to be able to devour a book. I still read fast, but starting a book always seems a chore. Apparently it’s an ADHD thing! Because as we get older were are less likely to…
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A sense of place …
Establishing a sense of place in writing is surely incredibly important. You want, ideally, to ground yourself and your readers in the world you have created. You want to establish a concrete reality and build onto it from there. I suck at it. I am aware of this problem in my writing. Trust me. I’ve…
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Cliche at Thirty
If you’re wondering what this place is, welcome, this is my attempt at holding myself accountable. What does that mean? Well, my name is Hannah and I’m a writer. Which sounds a lot like the start of some kind of meeting for addiction. It’s more like the opposite of that. I struggle to write sometimes.…
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