Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: writing

  • Electric Spec’s first page critique game is back!

    The rules of the first page critique game are in detail on the Electric Spec blog, and it basically boils down to ‘send in the first 200 words (ish) of…


  • Posting stories for free

    I was a bit busy over the weekend so I just pasted a story into a post and let that be it. I wanted to offer some explanation and to…


  • Hell

    I followed Tanya across the crowded cafe to the table she’d spotted. A plastic pot of chicken salad and a bottle of sparkling water rolled around on my fake wooden…


  • Full Disk Recovery

    I have my hard drive back. I have all my stories and bits of writing. I am so happy. It did cross my mind that the hard drive was completely…


  • Commas and getting used to a new routine

    I’m on week four of the new job. It’s pay day on Friday, woohoo. I’m still not in much of a routine with writing in the evenings and weekends but…


  • Day Job

    So tomorrow I return to getting paid to do something other than write. About twenty months ago I ignored the one piece of writing advice all the professionals seem to…


  • Hub, Issue 86

    I’m almost caught up. This is Issue 86 of Hub. There’s only one more in my Inbox, although I’m expecting another one tomorrow. There are two stories this week. Wink…


  • Writing Update

    3,100 words on Sacrifice today. My typing must be improving. I went to my folks over the weekend, so no other writing activity for a couple of days. And I’ve…


  • Writing Update

    Merely to give myself some accountability… Today I typed up 2,300 words of Sacrifice. On the way I realised a scene was missing and added it to my list of…


  • New Plan

    For the last few months, I’ve been prioritising job hunting over writing. I’ve just missed out on a job that I had two interviews for and I haven’t found anything…


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