This week I have been mostly …

I just wanted to give you lovelies a quick update on what I’ve been up to … Applications – a couple for jobs and a couple for PGCEs.  They take up a lot of time and are quite dull, but they need doing, alas! Tulle skirt.  Meh.  It’s finished, but it looks frumpy and I’m [...]

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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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