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The Messy Edit Desk (Status Update)
Welcome, 2015. It’s been a few weeks since my last personal blog post. My absence was due to the typical summer holidays / Christmas break and going back to school havoc over the past month. Through it...
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Writing Resources – Revision and Self-Editing
I am currently in the middle of a revision phase. Which means I now am gifted with a greater understanding of the phase and an even bigger realisation that I don’t (yet) have enough knowledge to get me...
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Who Needs an Excuse to Read a Comic? Scribd now does them.
“Writing’s for fun, Reading’s your JOB” – Holly Lisle Who needs an excuse to read? Well, sometimes as a writer it’s difficult to put aside a manuscript for the chore that reading can sometimes feel....
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Revising / Self-Editing in March?
If you’re revising / self-editing in March (sticks hand up, looks around…) there are a couple of links for you – NaNoEdMo If motivated by a community and overall target challenge, NaNoEdMo opens up for...
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Coveting Writerly Things
For the first time in my life I sat through an Ebay bid war, and won something: This little red beauty, in working condition. She’s not one of those old solid black Remingtons of the 1940’s, and I...
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Scrivener for iOS is on the way!
I feel like Christmas is coming early. On the same day I grew envious of Mac users once again (the reportedly fantastic Ulysses writing program has just released onto the iPad) I read of the released...
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All Quiet
Apparently, I don’t blog much anymore. Who woulda thought? Well, the spammers started noticing, which forced me back on. So – here’s a quick update. I’m still alive (save for an Autumnal visit of the...
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Companion 1
I still have little of any thoughts to blog about. Most of my writing work is done offside at the moment, whilst anything I read of interest can be found as daily editions on my curation tumblr blog,...
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Being Creative and Being Productive
Here are a couple of post links coming across my internet reading lately, and some thoughts towards these – Being Creative Fast Company has just published an article by Jane Porter based on Elizabeth...
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The Heroine’s Journey Narrative Structure
I’ve recently finished a wonderful online course teaching one method for structuring a heroine’s journey. The problem with female characters – and male characters who are following an internal...
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The Looming (of NaNo) – Jigging the Plans for Success
It’s Friday morning my time – eta on NaNo: 40 hours away. With this looming month of torturous writing upon me, I have come to the slow understanding that my initial plans for writing during the...
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Getting Stuck in NaNoWriMo? Here’s some resource links
Over on my tumblr blog I just put up a post linking to resources I’m collating as NaNoWriMo helper posts – these come in two categories – the #NaNoPrep posts of October (which I’m still discovering);...
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NaNoWriMo Update – Unofficially a Winner, Just
Day 13 in the big brother house… Sorry, wrong unreality show. Briefly, here’s an update and my learnings – This afternoon on a balmy thunderstuck Friday afternoon in Northern Sydney I unofficially...
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NaNo Won
Eleven days after posting this unofficial win, I admitted defeat. I thought that in the next two weeks of NaNo I might be able to add a significant amount more words to my project. I thought wrong....
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The Tilt between Plot and Character
I used to be a big plotter. I spent many days if not weeks on developing plot before “going in”. This year I’ve noticed a change in my writing process, with character development taking a turn at the...
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Goodriter Free Giveaway
In case somehow you missed this. Goodriter is a new website startup. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday you will receive an email with writer offers – on books, courses and writerly services. Signup...
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Two Brilliant Christmas Gift Resources for the Writer in your Life
It’s not never too late to gift the writer in your life with two reasonably cheap reference resources they will appreciate for a very long time. Storybundle’s 25 writing craft ebooks package The...
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2016 #MyOneWord = Characters
There are a thousand and one blog posts out there at the moment concerning setting goals and resolutions for writing this year. This is not one of them. I do have some minor plans – to read 50 new...
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Using Tarot for Writing Inspiration [Resource Links]
Writers have always used all sorts of random generating tools to prompt and help develop their writing. Popular choices include the random story making dice or cubes available, the many writing prompt...
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