Posted this on Tumblr just now, and thought the blog could use it too. See, the thing is ladies (and those gents that need to hear this too, naturally), no one ever said you had to only love things that were perfect. Pretty sure all of us could pick flaws in EVERYTHING we love, if […]
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showing a documentary to the class on social media and how corporations collect and sell data based on likes and RTs etc they are all so naive and they are totally missing the point they’re all like – dude, that guy is so not even funny and i’m like – dude, he makes a living out
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So, this is a lesson I conducted for my seniors literally just now, and it was awesome and thinky and I wanted to share 🙂 We are studying the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and in that context we are looking at the idea of censorship. You don’t have to have read the novel
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Came across this awesome article a month or so ago – 20 Thoughts on Revision – which has 20 things to think about and ways to approach the revision of your story. There’s some good stuff in there. You should totally read it. Read more:Everything You Wanted To Know About Book SalesSo I Guess I
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In order to be a writer, you have to be committed to the act of writing. It’s not enough to just talk about writing, to want to be a writer, to have great ideas and hang out with writers. You have to actually write. Pretty simple, pretty straightforward.Superficially.Like a relationship, really. To have a successful relationship, all you
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So I meant to post this like a month ago when it was a Hot Topic, but we all know I’m less than timely when it comes to blogging, so meh. Better late than never. With the context that a top news site released an article essentially degrading adult readers of Young Adult (YA) fiction,
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Today I wanted to have a look at the things we get caught up with.Glam recently – or not so, perhaps; been away for so long I’ve no idea – posted an article about being caught up in following the rules. And I realised, once again, that sometimes the things I find self-evident really aren’t so
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New post up on the Darkness and Good blog. This one… eh. This one is. Read more:In Which Leaves Have Common Sense: A (temporarily) free short storyStory: Recruitment!DEATH
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So you’re reading along in your story, and you think things are going great. You even make it all the way to the end, and there was just that one typo that needed fixing. The plot makes sense, it’s kind of funny, and now, it’s cleanly written. No flab, no superfluous anything. It’s great.So off
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So, I can’t believe I’m posting this for you, but anyway. Welcome to Mercury. Some of you have met Mercury before. For everyone else… I’m sorry. 😀 And another apology: this ‘short story’ is actually an excerpt from the very first novel I ever wrote! (Yes, I know, that means I’m not writing new fiction,
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