Studying the Craft
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 3rd August 2020
This week has been a lot more focused on uni work than actual writing, but I still wrote a lot less than I thought I would. This week I’ve been working on a literature review and I’ve also been waiting… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 27th July 2020
Oh my, it’s August. Half of the year is indeed over and yet it still feels like March. In four months we’ll be welcoming (maybe) the year of 2021. This year is flying by and I needed to quickly catch… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Fortnight of the 13th July 2020
So, I’m doing a double up again because I didn’t do my reflection last Sunday and didn’t think it worth writing one on Monday and so just post-poned it. The last fortnight has been busy-busy with returning to work (at… Continue reading
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Designing Characters from Drinks
Coffee She’s usually wrapped up in a coat, wears black jeans underneath and joggers, keeping her work shoes in her backpack as she scuttles around the city with her keep-cup in hand, warmed by her morning coffee and itching to… Continue reading
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How I Write my Characters
It depends, really. Sometimes the character writes itself and the story is written after and sometimes I have the story and the idea of a character and then need to work on fleshing them out. The Character Writes Themselves For… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 6th July 2020
This week was really busy, meaning that my writing targets suffered for it but given what I was doing, I’m okay with that. If I just borrow some of the words I wrote last week, it somewhat evens out. This… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 29th June 2020
200th Post, Woohoo This week was a firecracker of a week. I stuck to the schedule I made before the start of the week for the most part, only drifting from it in the afternoon and on the weekend but… Continue reading
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Writing Prompts using Writing Prompts – why even just writing a line is good
This week has been good for writing in a few different aspects and I have so far been faithful to doing a couple of writing prompts each day. They’ll be sprinkled into here because sometimes I write two and sometimes… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 22nd June 2020
This past week has been a good one. I haven’t done as much as I should have (which is pretty typical of me because I can be quite a mess of a person) but I have done more than I… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Double Up for 14th and 21st June 2020
I haven’t posted anything in a while. Not for almost two weeks. I didn’t really do anything in the time between either, I mostly just wrote a little and played games. It was strangely a tired few weeks. I started… Continue reading






