Storytime with Rachel F Hundred

Tag: Writing

  • Writer’s Log: Looking Forward to 2025

    Building on the foundation of 2024 2024 was a bumper year for my writing. I wrote over 100 pieces when I add my business articles, the opinion articles and Writer’s Logs here, the reviews, poems, fiction and fanfiction. Compared to the 7 pieces I managed in 2023 that turnaround is…

  • Writer’s Log: 2024 in Review

    What did I actually write? Writer’s Log: 2024 in Review And what a year it has been. My final Writer’s Log of 2024 is going to be a fairly traditional look back over my writing in the past 12 months. The numbers will vary a little from those published in…

  • Writer’s Log: Storytime’s First Year Review

    Writer’s Log: Storytime’s First Year Review

    Has having my own website been worth it? Writer’s Log: The first year of my own website – is it worth it? Last year in December, I set up Storytime as my very own writing website to have a place where I could share my writing. A year on, do I…

  • Writer’s Log: A Novel Hangover

    After the celebration comes the… It’s been a weird two weeks since I finished the first draft of the novel. On one hand, it feels slightly relieving not to have the pressure of a daily writing target and the pressure of a deadline. On the other, it feels odd not…

  • Are trigger warnings necessary?

    How I came to believe the answer is YES. The use of a trigger warning for Wicked (2024) has recently triggered a debate around whether these warnings are needed or not. Many were up in arms, decrying the warning for discrimination against green-skinned people and cruelty to fantasy animals. Many…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…