Tag: writing update
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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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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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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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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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