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Y Is For…

Good morning, or afternoon :) Im a little late today…not feeling too great…have my reflux problem back so its back to the Quacks for me today *sighs* Plus I’m taking The Hubster to the dentist (I’m...

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Z Is For…

Oh no…its the last day of the A-Z Challenge! Wow, that actually went pretty quickly didn’t it. And the best bit is… I DID IT! :) Sorry, got a little bit excited there, coz its not over yet… Its Z day…...

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The Art Of Blurbing

I spent some time yesterday morning writing a blurb for the novel I’m just about to start work on. A good exercise to get me focused on what the story is actually about and at least i now know the MC’s...

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Turn Your Concerns Into Stories

One of the exercises on the Future Learn course this week is to make a list of our “concerns” as this will help us build up a self-portrait of who we are as writers. It will also help us to become...

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Friday Fiction

To keep my brain ticking over I’ve decided to do a prompt every Friday morning. I have to admit that I’ve blatantly stolen the idea from the Friday Fictioneers :) Todays piece is inspired by this...

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Friday Fiction – A Day In The Life

Todays piece of fiction was scribbled in my notebook yesterday and was inspired by two things: An exercise in The Creative Writing Coursebook where you had to write a day in the life from the POV of an...

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Dear Muse…..

Dear Muse, Please identify yourself! I don’t think you’re being entirely fair. Ive kept my side of the deal, i write every day (well, ok, nearly), and have done on and off for several years now. Im not...

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Friday Fiction – Caff’s Caff

Dominics photo this week prompted the following scene. At some stage in the future perhaps i can extend it ;)             Bradley sat down at the sticky coffee stained table and stirred the dishwater...

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Friday Fiction – Holiday Of A Lifetime

Dominic’s photo this week is this…             And of course i’ll be adding these words to my 100k Word Count ;)   The tour guide spoke little English but managed to communicate with the small group of...

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Friday Fiction…On A Monday

I didn’t get chance to blog at all last week. What with the 100K challenge and then the internet going down for 2 days (GRRRR!!!! Don’t ask *rolls eyes*) but, i have got back in to reading, and...

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