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I love grammar. I’m a grammar nerd. And I believe great writing requires a deep understanding of the fashions of grammar. Grammar, punctuation and spelling are the tools we use to convey subtle meaning to the reader. Even if the reader doesn’t know enough about grammar to truly appreciate how we’ve done it, they will respond…
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Inspired by Leigh Butler’s fabulous A Read of Ice and Fire blog on Tor.com, I am going to do a chapter by chapter commentary of A Dance with Dragons. When not gushing about the general awesomeness of GRRM, I will be focussing on the writing. And as I have temporarily suspended the 100 Books in…
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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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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 touching them emotionally. It’s as if they don’t care and are just shrugging it off. Are they fighting for their lives against a winged demon?…
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The first third of Mistral’s Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton is basically one long sex scene with the protagonist, Merry Gentry having sex with some of her guard. After a while it becomes apparent that the reason for this is that she needs to get pregnant in order to become the heir to her Aunt’s faerie kingdom.…
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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 my catsDancingReading non-writing related blogs and newsWatching butterfliesLOLcats And of course there are the things I think I should be doing: CleaningDecoratingHanging out with friendsKeeping…
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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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A funny thing happened on the way to the end of my novel. I always thought I was more interested in plot and events and writing about the stuff that happens. Characters were just what events happened to, vehicles for moving the story along. My stories grew out of a scene and things developed from…
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Boudica Marginalia 