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The Despair of Inspiration

September 3rd, 2010

You may be shocked to learn that I haven’t started yet another new project this week.  Got far too many of those “new projects” to be getting on with.  But I thought I’d go back to the old gem – inspiration.  Read more…

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Revisiting Old Work. Again.

August 26th, 2010

So a few months back, I wrote a post about how stupid it is to revisit old work.  Well, this week I’m playing devil’s advocate.  Read more…

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Being A Writer

July 24th, 2010

I sometimes find it really difficult to classify myself as a writer.  A lot of the time I guess this because I spend more of my time not writing than I do writing, but that’s got a lot more to do with my laziness and motivation issues than anything else. Read more…

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Serialised Fiction – Epilogue

July 15th, 2010

Yeesh, don’t I ever give it a rest?

It seems not.

Well, in the style of all epilogues, I am going to revisit elements of my previous posts.  Primarily, editing.  Yeah, like I haven’t done that before.  Read more…

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Serialised Fiction – Part Eight

June 3rd, 2010

Despite the minor hiccup I had last week, having to redo the final episode pretty much from scratch, I finally managed to finish this opus this week.  And how do I feel?  Am I overflowing with a sense of achievement?  Satisfaction for having gotten this mammoth under control?  Relief? Read more…

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Serialised Fiction – Part Seven

May 27th, 2010

OK, this week I was really hoping to put this baby to bed.  Bad news is, I couldn’t. 

This does have a silver lining though, because it means I have something to write about in this post!  Read more…

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Serialised Fiction – Part Six

May 21st, 2010

So, I’m finally nearing the end of this journey, and part of me is glad.  Relieved even.  The finish line is in sight and once I get across it I can relax. 

Or can I?
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Serialised Fiction – Part Five

May 14th, 2010

So this week I figured I’d talk about word counts.  I know its one of the things that most writers won’t really think about in any great detail, but word counts are extremely important.  If you write shorter fiction, and have considered submitting your work to any of the number of short story competitions that are run each year (or magazines, for that matter), then word counts become vitally important.  Because short stories especially have strict word count limitations. Read more…

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Serialised Fiction – Part Four

May 6th, 2010

So yet again a week has passed and I have failed to live up to my own deadlines.  I didn’t get any specific episodes completed.  What I did manage to do however, is get a lot of scenes written from the final five episodes I have to write in this series. 

Which – in a roundabout way – got me thinking about endurance. Read more…

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Serialised Fiction – Part Three

April 30th, 2010

So for this week’s entry, I’m going to tackle a subject that isn’t about writing.  Not the physical process of getting words down anyway.  This week I’m going to talk about that ever elusive contract. Read more…

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