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All stories are fractal. Here's why.
All stories are fractal. Here’s why.
I like this piece by Damien Waller. Particular what he says about structure; like it or loathe it, ‘it’s bigger than we are’. It’s a fee paying online course promotion post designed to whet your appetite but still…interesting read.
Source: All stories are fractal. Here’s why.
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Upgrade for Creative Writing PhD Research
Upgrade for Creative Writing PhD Research
So as with all PhD students I fretted about Upgrade. When you embark on your PhD it seems a long way off and a monumental milestone to reach in the behemoth that is THE PhD. As you sweat over the minutiae of your application wording, wondering by the end if this is really something you want to do, you cannot imagine yourself standing up in front of a panel of experienced academics talking with…
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Update To Upgrade and Beyond...
Update To Upgrade and Beyond…
So. It’s been a while. How many blog posts start like that?! Well. A lot. I nearly thought of quitting this but even though my presence here feels more documentation than communication it has a use. Since my last post back in October my mother’s health deteriorated fast and finally she died in Early February, 5 days before I was due to present the oral part of my Upgrade examination. I can’t…
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NAWE 2016 Good Girls, Bad Girls in YA fiction
NAWE 2016 Good Girls, Bad Girls in YA fiction
Looking forward to co-presenting the Good, Girls, Bad Girls creative writing workshop this Saturday as part of a brilliant and packed programme at NAWE’s annual conference. The workshop will explore how to write memorable female characters, ask what makes a memorable, relatable protagonist and, just as importantly, our antagonists. Although we’ll dip into a few examples from…
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Writing in the 21st Century @ The Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Writing in the 21st Century @ The Cambridge Festival of Ideas
The future of writing is now. Smartphones, interactive storytelling, stories that take us right into the future…now. Writing and technology have a long backstory: from Guttenberg’s press [and beyond] to today’s digital smart phones humans have explored new ways of communicating with each other using tools of one form or another and these tools have had an impact not only on how we communicate…
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Stranger Things
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YALC 2016 I should have written about this weeks ago but i have had a difficult personal time this past month with my mother falling seriously ill and my initial post impetus became defused before completion.
You Don’t Love Me
You Don’t Love Me
For a moment my heart stops.
Ottie, I say, sitting down and offering you a biscuit. Some weak recompense for the toy you so want so badly but I have no money to buy. I love you so much I can barely think about how much I love you. When I do I have to sit down. [I sit down]. I have to stop everything, including breathing. I literally can’t do anything or think about anything else. Thinking how…
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Inspired by the Internet#1
Inspired by the Internet#1
I took a moment to revisit a favourite radio 4 series by researcher in all things digital Aleka Krotoski and found this. Sparking a blog post series that I am naming Inpired by the Internet that will share and archive a colection of creative work that has been inspired by our online life. A creative responses to the multiple and nefarious ways that we are being shaped and possibly tranformed…
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Google Help: More Young People Watching YouTube than TV
Google Help: More Young People Watching YouTube than TV
It’s not entirely shocking news that children and young people spend more time online than watching TV nowadays.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35524429
What is interesting though is how hard it is to find out anything much about Googles online roadshow for safer interenet for primary schools [see end of article]. Apart from a skeletal outline of its top tips which you can read here:
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being connected…
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Great Advice on PhD Supervisors
Great Advice on PhD Supervisors
I have recently undergone achange of supervisory team because I have changed the focus of my creative writing PhD from writing a novel about the impact of social media and motherhood to one looking at the impact on young people of growing up online. This articlce by expience PhD suprvisor and examiner Tara Brabazon has some really interesting things to say about the importance of getting your…
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Collaborative Writing in YA Fiction
Collaborative Writing in YA Fiction
Really interesting piece here by YA author Liz Flanagan interviewing authors who write together.
Collaborative Writing in YA Fiction
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So you might have noticed… So you might have noticed that I did not, absolutely and completely definitely not, complete my first draft by the deadline.
Advice for Each Zodiac Sign on How to Feel More Gratitude and Enjoy Their Life
We all become caught up in our everyday routine and forget to slow down and appreciate what is right in front of you. We have concocted a list designed for each zodiac sign and their values on how to improve their lives and enjoy things in the moment, instead of in memory.
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love this quote - light is featuring quite strongly in my life and YA novel writing journey at the moment. this is not only grt advice for life but as a writer I completely recognise that it’s sometimes all too easy to loose track of what’s in front of you [the meaning, the message, the heart etc.] as you focus on banging out those words on the screen…thanks for the inspiration!
On Rewrites and finding a novel's truth north
I have recently started a rewrite. My ya novel of some years in the scribbling is changing from first person to third. It’s still got lots of first person as my protagonist Taylor keeps a couple of blogs but it is working SO much better this way. I have been resisting third for a long time. Caught in some fixed idea that first person is the true voice for ya but I can’t tell you how liberating, how unblocked I am now with this novel now I’m writing in third. It’s given me a voice and a narrative point of view I couldn’t shoe horn in there before. If your novel is stuck then why don’t you try writing through a different narrative PoV. You might just end up finding your novel’s truth north like I have 💻
