Hopfield is Writing

Edald Hopfield

  • Up the Hill or Down the Hill

    It’s been a while since I last posted and, of course, I haven’t finished most things I ‘set out to do’ since then. I’m at this weird point where my writing life is suffering but the rest of my life… Continue reading

  • On the Edit

    I’m currently editing the second draft of my first completed novel (not technically the first but the first that I felt ‘this is it’ when the last sentence wrote itself) and it’s a grind every time I do a draft,… Continue reading

  • Creating a Professional Profile

    Since starting my degree I’ve had to think about my ‘professional profile’. I’ve thought about it and completed the assessment tasks and yet there are still so many things I don’t know. Even referring to anything about myself as ‘professional’… Continue reading

  • First day of Semester 2

    Semester 2 has begun and I actually went to all of my classes on the first day. Surprisingly, the lectures were kind of empty. Normally they’re full for the first three weeks and then people stop coming but I could… Continue reading

  • KWB211 – Portfolio 2 Prose

    Louis looked down at the dead fox as if he were watching a line of ants. He crouched by it with his hands balled up in the pockets of his jumper as winter whispered through the trees. His breath came… Continue reading

  • The Whisper Man

    I’ve recently just finished The Whisper Man by Alex North. I picked it up the day I was leaving Adelaide to read on the plane. When I look for books in stores, I look at the covers. If I like… Continue reading

  • Writing Prompt: Foreclosure

    When I was younger, I moved a lot, Home was not a house, not a place, not a single spot, But I wanted that room, that place I always knew, I wanted my own space, known by few, But that’s… Continue reading

  • Weekly Writing Reflection

    This week I’ve written a few thousand words, and that’s actually good progress compared to the rest of the year. I’m working on a short story at the moment and am try to try the ‘story in a month’ kind… Continue reading

  • Writing Prompt: Cleaning

    I do and don’t like cleaning. It’s one of those things that I don’t want to do when it’s someone else’s mess or if someone tells me to, but I sometimes will like cleaning the houses of my siblings when… Continue reading

  • KWB310

    This unit was the hardest for me of the four and made the semester twice as difficult as the previous two. I tend to do a lot better when it comes to the creative part of writing than with the… Continue reading