Storytime with Rachel F Hundred

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Writer’s Log: Finding Joy

    Writing from my heart Back at the beginning of August, I was recovering from a few weeks of terrible, terrible luck.  I was picking myself up, celebrating the few things which had gone right, dusting myself off and refocusing.  Two of the things I have focused on have been my…

  • Writer’s Log: Every Cloud

    When life is a series of unfortunate events So, I ended up having the worst luck right at the end of July.  I won’t bore you with the details but let’s just say that three opportunities falling through, a burnt hand, injured ankles, delayed projects, and suddenly incurring more unexpected…