Rambling thoughts
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According to Dictionary.com, fortitude means: mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously Fortitude is something that writers need. Writing can be hard and very often it forces us to face our inner truths and demons. Weirdly, an image search for fortitude mainly returned pictures of trainers so I made my…
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I’m not sure where I picked it up but I had a belief that if you had a talent for something, then it should come easily to you. If you were good at art, then drawing well and finding things to draw would be a snitch. You’d sit down at your easel and knock off…
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I saw this on Adventures in Writing and I felt the need to share.
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I’ve just pre-ordered A Dance with Dragons by G.R.R. Martin. I’m so excited! Six years I’ve been waiting for this book. I really want to re-read the whole series in preperation, but they wouldn’t count towards the 100 books in 2011 challenge. Boo. But I’m still excited.
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Oh my, what a bust. The London Book Fair was big and busy and I came away feeling positive about the state of the publishing industry. I know it’s a trade fair and it’s not really for authors, but the website said there was an author lounge where unpublished authors could talk to literary consultancies,…
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I’m going to the London Book Fair today. For the first time. Where I will wear a badge proclaiming that I’m an author and I will probably be too shy to talk to anyone about my work. I will post my adventures later in the week.
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The last post made me think about keeping books. I used to. But that was a long time ago, before the internet and the collapse of the net book agreement, and I was a teenager and couldn’t afford to buy a lot of books. I was also a bit of a hoarder, like my parents…
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Over the years I’ve been involved in writing groups I’ve found myself in conversations about how much technique matters. It appears there are two schools of thought. On one side are those who think it doesn’t matter much. They argue that worrying about correct spelling and formatting kills the creative flow and it’s much more…
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Last year I said my writing goal was to finish my work-in-progress, Sacrifice. I didn’t do it. I added 10,000 words, came up with a better working title (Immortal), and re-wrote some parts of what I’d already written. It was all going well up until August. Then I hit a bad patch writing-wise; I got…
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I read a lot of books last year. Many were good, some were great and some were horrible. All taught me something about writing and some were a great deal more enjoyable in the process. So here are the three I enjoyed the most and the three I liked the least. Top Three1. Black Man…
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