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- Jade goes with everything
- Jade Likes Words
- Macarooning – a baking blog
- Momastery
- Something About Rowing – rowing/maths/coffee/etc
- The Year of Shopping Detox
- Wardrobe Oxygen
- Zoo In My House
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Tag Archives: writing
Eudoxia’s Top Tips for Writing
1) Don’t neglect your blog for more than a week. … okay, so I haven’t been managing to stick to this …but … hello, dear reader! I thought about writing an “I’m still alive, just no time” sort of update … Continue reading
A letter to my 16 year old self
While browsing Freshly Pressed, I came across a post entitled “Dear Me: A Letter to my 16 Year Old Self”. Which made me think … if I were writing to myself aged 16, what would I say? At first I … Continue reading
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2012
Welcome to 2012! This new year feels kind of odd. I think 2011 was the first year in, well, ever that I didn’t experience some kind of major change. When I was in school, moving from one year to another … Continue reading
17K … onwards and upwards …
I’m still struggling with Nano. I’ve introduced two new characters – I now have 3 pairs of main characters. Ideally I’d like to try and interleave chapters from the various pairs. At the moment, though, a lot of what I’m … Continue reading
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another Nano update – 12K …
I’m behind quota, although not too drastically so. There have been a few days where I wrote nothing at all, or below quota (1667 words per day). It’s mostly a motivation issue – I’m putting my energy into the things … Continue reading
update
Nano is going okay. I’m currently on 5,885 words which is a little bit behind (I should’ve got a further 800 words done by the end of yesterday) but I’m not freaking out about it … yet, anyway. Aiming to … Continue reading
Nano is here!
It’s November! NaNoWriMo has started! sorry for the lack of updates over the weekend. I’ve been canal boating: I have also been planning for Nano, but I haven’t taken any photos of that. I will share some pictures of things … Continue reading
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NaNoWriMo 2011
So … I’m going to go for it. 50,000 words in November. Having decided that I will take part,it’s kind of frustrating that I can’t get started yet. On the other hand, if I could get started, I’d have to … Continue reading
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To Nano or not to Nano?
Currently, I am thinking about NaNoWriMo - 50 000 words, one month (November), what could go wrong? I’ve done Nano twice before, and made it to 50K, but not written anything that was really worth reading. That’s okay … but if … Continue reading
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Heffers SFF Evening
Last night, Heffers in Cambridge had a science fiction and fantasy evening.I was very impressed. They had tables set out around the store, where the authors were mostly based, signing books and chatting to people and things. and then at … Continue reading
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Tagged china mieville, fantasy, Knowledge on Thursday, postaweek2011, reading, science fiction, thinking, writing
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