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I have a job! Yes, that’s right, job hunting is over and my life can resume. It’s amazing how much time looking for a job takes. I don’t think I’m cut out for short term contract work. I’m looking forward for a couple of years of stability in a permanent job with regular hours. Yay.…
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The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I’ve changed the template for my blog. Being coding challenged means I am limited to the free sample templates provided by Blogger. If only I had the skills to design myself the perfect format… What I was really after was a three column template because I have lots…
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This week I’ve been reading lots and may actually have had a breakthrough on the work-in-progress. Self-editing for Fiction Writers, Rennie Browne and Dave King. This was a really useful book and the sections on inner monologue, sophistication and voice were illuminating. I think in an effort to avoid expository lumps and explaining dialogue or…
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A couple of weeks ago I read a blog post by Joe Abercrombie asking if characters always have to change for the better and if happy endings are absolutely necessary. Given that I’m reading Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers it seemed particularly relevant and I’m going to try to answer the questions.…
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A few days ago, the Dictionary.com Word of the Day was lucubration. By way of illustration, this quote was included: A point of information for those with time on their hands: if you were to read 135 books a day, every day, for a year, you wouldn’t finish all the books published annually in the…
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I’ve just started reading The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, by Christopher Vogler. It came quite highly recommended. Like most (if not all) writers, I’ve read a goodly pile of books on how to write. Some of them were more helpful than others and I’ve put a list of the ones I use as…
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Again, a long delay in posting. I’m job hunting again as my current contract finishes at the end of the year. Happily, I’m using working on my novel as displacement activity for finding a job. This weekend I managed to get my act together enough to update my CV and apply for a couple of…
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Last week From Sand to Glass had a post listing five things he likes about himself and asked his readers to pass it on. So here’s mine. 1. I’m a thinker. I like to analyse and I like to understand at a really deep level. I think about things in their own right and how…
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Boudica Marginalia 