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Gathering ideas
15/10/2012 15:34
Today, I invested in a notebook for scribbling down random ideas and a set of coloured pencils to scribble them with. I'm feeling quite the professional! So far, I've jotted down some ideas that have popped up over the last couple of days.
Normally, I don't go looking for...
When inspiration strikes!
14/10/2012 08:34
I've had a couple of moments of inspiration over the last few days.
The first was when I was reading one of last week's Flash Fiction Friday entries. The writer is using story challenges to write a continuous story, which I thought was a) very ambitious and b) very interesting. My...
Thoughts on managing a blog!
12/10/2012 14:32
So, I learned all sorts of stuff, yesterday - about managing my new blog.
I've added a new section for storing my stories, so they won't clutter up the blog itself. I'll leave 'Queen of Another Country' where it is for now but I will delete it eventually. I've also...
I haz commentz!
11/10/2012 12:32
Two people have been kind enough to comment on 'Queen of Another Country' in my guestbook. I am beyond excited!
Flash Fiction Friday entry - Queen of Another Country
10/10/2012 14:12
You can read my latest scribbles right here (well, in the blog section...)
Pop over and give it a read. Let me know what you think by putting something in the guestbook.
The art of planning
09/10/2012 20:40
Sometimes it really pays to plan your story. That way, it almost writes itself by the time you come to actually type it out.
I've spent the last few days thinking about how I want my entry to this week's Flash Fiction Friday to go and jotting ideas down in a mind42 map. The...
Getting to know your Muse
07/10/2012 08:17
An essential part of every writer's kit - yet perhaps the hardest part to define - is the Muse.
The Muse can inspire a writer to the greatest heights and can abandon them to the wilderness of writer's block without any warning. And the worst part is that there's no way to control this...
Flash Fiction Friday
06/10/2012 10:22
This weeks Flash Fiction Friday is about endings. I'm not going to talk too much here about the story - you can read about that in my writing LiveJournal, Athena71 - but I will talk about the process.
The theme of endings didn't really say much to me at first but then I got...
Getting started
06/10/2012 10:14
So, let's start with some thoughts on why I write.
I've had stories in my head for as long as I can remember, most of which haven't gone anywhere - but some have hung around, bugging me until I told them. So, partly it's about maintaining my sanity!
I also flatter myself that my...
Today is not a day for heroes
05/10/2012 17:30
You can read the text of my 2007 Nano-novel in my writing LiveJournal https://athena71.livejournal.com/2012/10/04/ ! This is how I left it in 2007 - all say 'awww'!
There's a huge gap in the story where I just ran out of space (50,000 words isn't as much as it...
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