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Trauma writing
When I did my BA, I took a few writing subjects. The thing that struck me then, and has stayed with me since, was that many of my peers chose to write pieces that were based on or directly about their respective traumas.
I heard proposals about the struggles and tension arising from obsessive compulsive disorder, [...]
Creating a sister text – Some thoughts on a hypertext
As I was writing on the weekend I got thinking about how narratives must always be incomplete. Incomplete in the way that a narrative cannot include every aspect of a story – because then it would cease being comprehensible and lose all semblance of being a narrative, among other things.
The story I am writing at [...]
Having a laugh – Timing in writing & comedy
I have been thinking a lot about timing. This is relevant to writing because timing in writing is important. And I’ve been thinking about it because I am writing a novel.
Timing, I have discovered, is different to rhythm. Or maybe it’s still rhythmic, just a different wave.
Rhythm at a micro-level – sentence, paragraph, even chapter [...]
First birthday
The blog reaches a small milestone tomorrow – it turns a year old.
As a birthday gift, I have given it a new dress. After looking through over 30 WordPress themes, I chose this one based on it’s clean, simple look, one that says, “I’m a smart yet simple girl, with simple needs and wants. I’m [...]
Everest and the Mariana Trench
This was me yesterday.
That was in response to @ytsumner who tweeted that a short story she’d had rejected four times had gotten published.
Though I wrote it with sincerity, three hours later I was questioning my skills as a writer, my creative abilities and my worth as a human.
Rejection is a sobering experience. Actually, sobering [...]
The digital writer
When writing, one of the last things I worry about is medium of publication. The act of writing, then the words written, consume my attention. When I think the piece is done – done meaning I’m sick of looking at it or it has reached a certain degree of completion – I briefly evaluate whether [...]
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An e-journal I would ditch my Moleskine for
Microsoft, you’ve got my attention.
From Engadget:
We’ve been dying to know more about Microsoft’s Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September … We’re told Courier will function as a “digital journal,” and it’s designed to be seriously portable: it’s under an inch thick, weighs a little over a [...]
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Repeating words
Repeating words in prose is against the law. Do not repeat words when composing prose, it is wrong. Repeating the same word in close proximity disrupts the flow of your writing. Try to avoid repeating words.
Repeating words:
He looked at her. She looked at him. They looked at each other. She looked away. He looked down. [...]
Miscellaneous Voices
In recent weeks, I have been forced to think about my motivations as a writer. I’d like to say it is because of something as interesting as an existential crisis or that I’m suffering from some form of crippling writer’s block, but it isn’t. It is, in fact, the opposite – I have the opportunity [...]
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