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Task One: The Power of Ritual

I have decided, to help hone my writing skills and keep me focussed during the last weeks of my holiday, I will try and blog everyday using different writing exercises. The idea is that my creativity...

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Feeling like you’ve finished

There’s no better feeling, in my opinion, than of finishing a book. I don’t mean finally typing the last word and hitting the full stop. No, I mean revising, changing, improving until you feel really,...

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Task Three: Playing Tag in the Schoolyard

This task is about making remote associations and thinking outside of the norm, making links between two things you would never normally put together. A useful skill for a fantasy writer, definitely,...

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Submitting some chapters (and keeping your fingers crossed)

Well, as mentioned yesterday, I feel I have finished my Route 66 book as much as I can on my own so I’ve readied it for submission! It’s always an exciting moment, sending it off into the void in the...

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Task Eleven: One Minute – One Sentence

Okay, I admit it, I’m currently doing exactly what Margret Geraghty’s book suggests you don’t do to improve your writing skills – I’m sitting down at the weekend and having several hours of writing...

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Time travel is not for the faint-hearted

My dream of being published still exists. I am not even looking for world-wide, JK Rowling-esque fame; all I want is to be able to go into a bookshop and see my book for sale. And maybe see someone on...

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2012 in Review

So, we have come to the end of another year. It is another year in which I have not found myself an agent (they never did get back to me), but I am by no means sad about this. Slightly disappointed,...

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There’s something to be said for taking your time

I am about to begin writing the first chapter of my new book. It is, for me, the second most exciting moment in writing something (the other being finishing). The whole Word document sits before you,...

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Starbucks and writing… Part 4

I’m lying. I didn’t go to Starbucks today. Sorry to the big, multi-national company but today an independent won. Why? They serve better lunches. I was just in the mood for a BLT panini and a can of...

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Feeling like I’ve grown

I managed another writing session today. There’s something about the Sun that seems to make me more productive! I’m sure I’m not the only one, but when that silky sunshine is raining down I feel like I...

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