Tag: writing update
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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: 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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Writing Update: Busy or Burn Out
A chaotic two weeks but now, finally, an update. Being busy is one of my many ways of coping with the boredom aversion that my ADHD brings me. And boy have I been busy. I’m starting a narrative podcast with friends, so a lot of my free time is being funnelled into writing for that.…
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Writing Update: Am I a Pantser? A Planner?
This week was a wild ride for me with migraines, deadlines and general chaos. But a kernel of something emerged from all that. Another person on my Crime Writing course asked a question about flying by the seat of your pants when it comes to writing, so here’s my two cents on the issue. This…
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Writing Update: Self-recrimination
This week was a wild ride. I finished up my final assignment for the first year of my mater’s degree, I embarked on another week of the Crime Writing course and I read five books. I know the last part isn’t technically writing but it still felt like an achievement to me. Or, at least,…
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Writing Update: One Year Older
I turned twenty-eight this week. It was a surreal experience. Second birthday in lockdown, second birthday miles and miles away from my family, friends and significant other. Two more birthdays until thirty. Scary times. It feels like I have to be an adult now. Which seems weird to write; of course I’m an adult! I…
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Writing Update
This week is actually my last as a 27-year-old. I turn 28 on Monday… slowly inching towards the 30-year-old-cliche my blog title is a nod to. So, in true me fashion, I began a Crime Writing online course at Faber Academy. It seems like it’ll be a really fun opportunity to meet more writers and…
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Writing Update
As last week was so productive, this week was doomed to editing. I still hit my targets – even if I did have a little overwhelmed cry on Wednesday – but mostly this week I was focusing on editing my short stories for the various and sundry competitions I’m looking to enter. I hate editing.…
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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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