Tag: creative writing
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A to Z Challenge – Day 14: N is for Names
Hi all, Today I wanted to talk about something that always gives me trouble as a writer – names! I get quite envious of those who seem to effortlessly just ‘know’ their characters should be called, or even have the name before the character even appears to them. Before now I’ve been sat there three…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 13: M is for Magic
Hi all, Running a bit late again today – oops, so this will just be a short one! Today, though M is for Magic 🙂 I love the idea of magic, when I was a kid all the stories I loved were about wizards, witches, fairies and other magical creatures – I used to write…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 11: K is for Kiss
Hi all, Well, it’s finally weekend – hope you have some fun plans! Today K is for Kiss – being a romance writer a couple’s first kiss is a huge focal point in their story. It’s when they take the first step into a physical relationship, when the sexual tension that you’ve (hopefully!) been building…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 10: J is for Journey
Hi all, Has been a busy week and unfortunately have to be up at 6am for a 12hour shift tomorrow, so this will just be a quickie 🙂 J is for Journey – just like life, writing a novel involves taking a journey. There will be highs and lows, points when you love where you…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 9 – I is for Inspiration
Hi all, Apologies, I’m a wee bit late with the post today. I was going to schedule it beforehand but inspiration didn’t want to come – but at least it gave me my word for the day 🙂 Other writers will no doubt be aware that when people find out what you do one of…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 8: H is for Hero
Hi all, I’m really enjoying this challenge so far, has been fun visiting new blogs and great to see lots of new people dropping by here! Anyway, we’re on the letter H and let’s face it you can’t write romance without having a hero 🙂 I must admit to a soft spot for the ‘dark…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 7: G is for Genre
Hi all, I thought I’d briefly touch on genre today. It can be a tricky issue for any writer – there can be a great tendency, especially in ‘traditional publishing’ to want to be able to neatly pigeon-hole a novel and a writer into a tidy little box. On some level you can understand this,…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 6: F is for First Draft
Hi all, Hope you all had a fab weekend. Mine was busy to say the least – but back to the routine today and back to this challenge. Today I wanted to talk about first drafts. I don’t know any writers who don’t constantly get insecure about their work – sadly it goes with the…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 5: E is for Evoke
Hi all, Well, it’s the first weekend of the challenge already! I’m quite enjoying it, though must admit with a busy weekend planned where I’m stuck working all day Saturday and then have a parental visit then perhaps it’s just as well there are no posts on a Sunday 🙂 Anyway, my E is for…
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A to Z Challenge – Day 4: D is for Dream
Hi all, Well, it’s currently 1am here, have just got in from an epic gig from my absolute favourite band of all time – the Manic Street Preachers and oops, just remembered that I haven’t written anything for this challenge for D-day (perhaps slightly apt under the circumstances!) so this will be a rather short…