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Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose”. Similes are useful as a descriptive shortcut. They rely on…
Writer Unboxed has a recent post on warm versus cool writing which made me rethink some of the things that I’ve heard and read about writing. Cool writing, as illustrated…
Have to have a job to pay the bills, but it’s far away and I spend three hours a day commuting. J is for Job in the sense that I…
I’ve been stuck on H for ages. When I originally made my list, I thought I might talk about health, about whether your health is good, bad or variable and…
Jeffrey Archer is an easy target. He’s a best-selling author that a lot of people think is a dreadful writer. So, given that I read in order to improve my…
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…
Writing prose with emotion is hard for me. I start off with scenes that are flat and emotionless. My characters are acting and talking as if what is happening isn’t…
Oh, there’s just so much of it! The things I could spend my time doing: Watching tvPlaying video gamesMessing about on the internetHanging out with friendsGetting a master’s degreePlaying with…
I like to analyse stuff. This week I have some time off from my day job and I am working on my novel. For me, this means looking at the 65,000…
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…
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