Category: Article
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Writer’s Log: Taking a moment to celebrate
93,916 words later. The draft of my novel is complete and today, I am taking a moment to celebrate! I set myself the target of writing it in November and I achieved my target! I am very happy and a touch proud. Admittedly, the last few chapters were hard to…
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Why narrative ripples are important
Or how to stop the story drowning after treading on a butterfly Potential spoilers for House of the Dragon In September, George R. R. Martin blogged about a plot decision taken by HBO hit House of the Dragon (2022-current) which many took to be a criticism of the show. Martin…
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Writer’s Log: Novel Tactics
Novels are the marathons of the writing world. I remind myself of this every day because it is easy with a novel to get discouraged because of the sheer number of words between the blank page at day one, and the finished article. Even with a great story in your…
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The Penguin is brilliant…
…I just won’t be reviewing it. For the past seven weeks, I’ve woken up on Thursday mornings, grabbed my breakfast, and parked myself in front of Agatha All Along like it was a Saturday morning cartoon and I was a child in pyjamas again. Some weeks I parked myself more eagerly…
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Writer’s Log: Into November
And into novel writing October seemed never-ending. In some ways that was a good thing, because I really got a lot done especially from a writing perspective, but in others, it felt like November was never going to arrive. In hindsight, that anticipatory feeling was because I had planned…
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Writer’s Log: Who’s driving this plot?
I just ended up pantsing a story Can you fall into pantsing by accident? Pantsing for those who may not know the term is where a writer does not plot their story per se and instead sits down with nothing more than a general sense of what the story is…
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Just Another Day on the Internet
Does it really matter what fanfiction pairings people read? Trawling around the internet this week, I came across a video by YouTuber ColeyDoesThings which was exploring the internet drama that had apparently broken out about a birthday cake. The cake in question had been shared to X by the original…
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Writer’s Log: The Art of Juggling
Sometimes you just need to leave balls on the floor The problem is that there are too many things I want to do. There are just so many ideas, so many projects…where do I focus my time and energy? How do I juggle everything? It’s always been the key area…
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Writer’s Log: Building my own sandpit
Why posting original work is terrifying It is terrifying to publish a story. Art of any kind is created from the imagination of the artist – whether a painter, writer, poet or videographer. In many ways we all pull from ourselves to create art, whether our emotions, or past experiences,…
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Writer’s Log: Quarterly Review (Q3 Year 1)
Measuring success or measuring joy? It’s the end of my third quarter and I’ve taken another look at the data to see how the website is progressing. The goals for my third quarter were: These are not SMART goals as I’m not planning to set myself hard targets to be…
Storytime with Rachel F Hundred 