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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The Big 100 Reading Challenge: Eight Years Later
Hey! This post isn’t related to NaNoWriMo, this month’s defining project, but if you want to know how that’s getting along you can read my daily updates over on Patreon. Back in the youthful years of the yesterlands, I had a blog dedicated to book reviews, TV reviews, and long […]
Keep readingNaNo AutoBio, or: A Chronicle of Failure
Hey gang! It’s NaNoWriMo, or Alex Doesn’t Live Up To His Own Expectations Month, everybody’s favourite madcap dash to write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days. I’ve been participating in NaNoWriMo for eight years now (I think), and during that time I’ve taken many different approaches to the challenge. […]
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Out of breath, slick with sweat, fringe plastered to my forehead, I doggedly sprint towards making a blog post in a timely manner. Not yet, I say out loud and also in italics, but soon. If you aren’t familiar with #vss365 already, I wrote an introductory post about it here; […]
Keep reading#VSS365: Round Up (July 2019)
Hi guys! As you may have already heard, I’ve been writing (or attempting to write) twitter-friendly prompt-inspired microfictions every day for the last month as part of the #vss365 project. I’m enjoying this exercise a lot, and plan to continue doing it as often as I can, but it seemed […]
Keep readingTaking Part in #VSS365
If you’re following me over on twitter you might have noticed me posting tweets with the #vss365 tag regularly over the last week or so. I became tangentially aware of vss365 through the writing community on twitter, but it took me a little bit of digging to figure out what […]
Keep readingProper Hello
Let me introduce myself, by which I mean let me copy-paste my about section into a blog post (in my defence, there’s only so many times you can rewrite your own autobiography before your very veins fill with the icy chill of existential horror). As a result of this rushed […]
Keep readingSuperfluous Introductory Post
Hi there! Quick overview: I’m a writer, my name’s Alex Aldred, this is my new website, this bit specifically is the sort of bloggy bit where I post updates on things I’m working on / talk about things that have caught my attention / just sort of go on a […]
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