Category: writing update
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Good Things Coming
As November winds down, my deadlines are fast encroaching. Despite the odds, I’m mostly on track to finish everything! Though all of the open calls I was planning on submitting to this month decided to gang up on me and all have deadlines on the 30th of November, I’ve mostly beaten them through planning. Who…
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Finding a Niche
In the last few months I feel as though I’ve finally found my short story writing niche. I have several upcoming pieces being published, all with one thing in common: horror elements. This doesn’t come as too much of a surprise given my childhood diet of horror movies and fantasy books. What it does mean…
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Good Things Can Also Come in Threes
So many amazing things happened in June! And, my mental health tanked a lot. The good things helped keep me afloat somewhat, but bad brain syndrome has a way of tinging everything with a malaise of despair. I placed second in the TL:DR 1K Word Herd challenge with my little sapphic tragic romance ‘Bitter Sweet’.…
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Writing Update: Stressed and Elated
Lots of stuff happening right now! So many things! Ah! Everything feels pretty chaotic right now but it’s a good chaotic, even if I’m feeling pretty exhausted. I went on a field trip this month with my fifteen-year-olds. Anyone who has ever had a horde of teenagers to chaperone through busy streets will know why…
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Writing Update: Rejections Galore
My self-worth is tied very closely to my idea of myself as a writer. I may have talked about this in a previous blog post, but I came to the realisation this past year. I have been suffering – for lack of a better word – because I have opened myself up to critique and…
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Writing Update: Backwards in High Heels
Wow, lots of news to share! I have had a hectic start to 2022 as I imagine most of us have. I attended DV Con which was super fun! I made some new friends and learnt a lot about the industry. It was genuinely a very warming experience. I also joined another program for writer…
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Writing Update: Academic Journals Elude Me
We’re back to in person classes at work! So life is once again ramping up to a hectic pace. Classes are chaotic as always, but I’ve been killing myself to make sure that my writing doesn’t suffer either. I ended up writing for the GlobeSoup 7-day writing challenge this time around. The genre I was…
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Writing Update: Calm Before the Storm
As August wound down, so too did my free time while itself away into nothingness again. I work full time as an English literature teacher, write articles part-time, work on my Creative Writing MA, write for my narrative podcast, DM a complex homebrew Dungeons and Dragons campaign, write just for myself and also somewhere in…
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Writing Update: Socialising is Scary
Summer vacation is always a time of writing for me. A few years ago I wrote 60,000 words in a summer vacation. This one was not as productive in terms of word counts, but I did end up with a lot to show for myself anyways. The Podcast I’ve been working on with some of…
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Writing Update: Finishing the Crime Writing Course?
So, this week is the last week of my Faber Crime Writing Course and it’s been a time. For our last piece of writing we need to include A Ticking Clock, A Punctuation Element and A Suspect Interview. Trying to get everything needed into the final piece feels like a bit of a squeeze. I’m…
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