Writing Progress

I’ve not mentioned my WIP in a while – for multiple reasons progress has been somewhere between slow and non-existent for several months, but the past couple of weeks I’ve been slowly getting back on the horse.  Momentum is the most important thing for me in terms of getting those words on the page, so [...]

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Writing, Reading and Loving

These three things are inextricably interlinked for me.  When I am reading a story I love, I feel most inspired to write.  And, I like to think I’m aware enough that I don’t fall into that trap of writing like what I’m currently reading, which I hear/read so often from writers – ‘I don’t read [...]

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Gentlewoman’s Gossip

In the course of my writing I have stumbled across a newspaper article from the Arianople Argus and thought it might be of interest: Madam G―’s Gossip Guide* All of Society is aflutter after Sunneday’s Gallows Gathering which saw the Fashion Set out in force.  In attendance were Mrs Med―, Th― Pasha, Mr Pel―, Ma― [...]

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Fantasy Fiction – Brevity Isn’t a Dirty Word

So last time, I mentioned this other addition that I made.  It was a brief explanation of my magic system.  BRIEF being the operative! The currently direction of commercial fantasy fiction is away from the excesses of worldbuilding so beloved of Tolkein and his acolytes.  Check out what Joe Abercrombie has to say on the [...]

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The Importance of a Sympathetic Reader (or two)

I have been quite bad this week with my editing.  On some days there have been geniune reasons for not editing, but on others it has simply been me ‘not feeling like it’.  I get like that with writing sometimes.  I get like that with a lot of things, sometimes. But today I sat down [...]

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Hello!

Welcome to my little corner of the interweb! I will be mostly rambling on about writing, research, the 18th Century, bits and pieces I make and anything else that catches my little magpie eye.  So, without further ado, may the rambling commence! I’m in the last few weeks of an MA in Creative Writing (scary!) [...]

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