Writing Reflection
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My Relationship with the Romance Genre: It’s Complicated
I’ve always grown up disliking the romance genre, and it kinda became a habit. I didn’t mind reading romance in other genres, but despised anything where the girl’s focus was that boy—where the first one is usually a prick—and so… Continue reading
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The Last Day—The Beginning of the Overdue
Today is the last day of the isolation of just over half of our department. It’s the last day I have off that I have to work. Finally. Though I don’t get a full weekend, I’m excited for my work… Continue reading
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All you have to do is make stuff up, right?
Some people marvel at the ability of other’s to write, and I didn’t understand that for a while. I have a friend who sometimes can’t wrap his head around writing and how you improve your skills for writing (pertaining to… Continue reading
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Success!
Not of the grand kind, just of the weekly targets kind. I went to work, I got writing done, I’m on time with my tasks and I finished reading The Martian. I did it. I did (most) of the things… Continue reading
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Writing with Receipts
There’s definitely something different about writing now that I’ve formally studied it (and have a degree to back up my “qualifications”) but I definitely don’t think it’s a MUST DO in order to become a professional novel writer. But, it… Continue reading
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Cat and Mouse with my “Dream”
When I was younger, my dream was to become a witch … and I’m really only halfway there. When I was a bit older and realised that I really liked writing, and it was something that I was good at,… Continue reading
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Four Weeks, First Month
It feels like I just started the week, to be honest. February is tomorrow and I feel like it’s still mid-January. Though it means I’m moving faster towards moving out … I hope the rest of the year isn’t a… Continue reading
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Writing as Escapism (Short Thoughts)
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before about how, for me, writing was a means of escape from life, my childhood and my adulthood. There are still sometimes I write with the mind of being somewhere else, but it does not guide… Continue reading
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First (scheduled) Week Down
I’ve a bit this week, not nearly as much as I wanted to, but I think I came close to doing as much as I could. Did I follow the schedule I set out at the start of the week?… Continue reading
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What do I do when I have nothing to write about?
The frustrating thing about writing, for me, is that I never don’t have anything to write about; I just sometimes don’t have it in me to write. I’ve mostly gotten over the fear of “ugly writing”, just throwing things on… Continue reading
Hopfield is Writing 