Hello friends. You don’t need me to tell you that we’re living through a very unusual time at the moment; things are strange and scary and unpredictable, and everybody has been affected in one way or another. As a doctoral student, I’m lucky in that my research generally involves a […]
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Workshop Update 23/03/20
Everything is going a bit mental in the U.K. right now, isn’t it? And everywhere, I mean, but the U.K. right now specifically. It’s difficult to figure out what I should be doing right now – I’ve been working today on a post about writing exercises to try out in […]
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I’ve heard it said that accountability is a great catalyst for motivation. If you’re striving to achieve something, letting the people around you know what that something is can drive you to work harder towards it. It’s good advice, which is why in the past I’ve announced my intention to […]
Keep readingTales from the Shipwreck (ii)
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Keep readingWriter’s Notes: A NaNoWriMo Autopsy
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Keep readingWorkshop Update 18/02/20
Time marches inexorably onwards, and February is nearer its end than its beginning. As I mentioned in my previous workshop post, my goal for February is to have four new patron-exclusive posts up before the end of the month, to make up for January being a barren, lifeless time. This […]
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Keep readingOne Hundred Failures
Part of being a writer is learning to deal with failure. Failures come in all forms and contexts, of course, but I’ve found that for a writer the most common and most keenly-felt form of failure is rejection. Whether you write poetry, prose, screenplays, scripts, or pretty much anything else, […]
Keep readingWorkshop Update 05/02/20
Hello friends. As I mentioned in my last patreon update (and as you may have been able to tell by the state of the site this month), I haven’t been keeping up with the old Content Machine. That’s a habit I want to knock on the head going forwards, so […]
Keep reading2019 Retrospective
Hey folks. 2019 has almost reached its end, and oh boy has it been a year. The recent general election in the UK has cast something of a ghastly shadow over the year as a whole, and over the past few days I’ve been struggling to look past that, to […]
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