Category: Assessments
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The Story of “The Steamers”
Today I’d like to comprehensively and openly talk about my first – and currently shelved – novel The Last of the Steamers. As with all stories, I’ll start at the beginning with the genesis of the book idea. I’d been toying around for a while, considering what I wanted to do, and one evening in…
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Writing in the Library
The three most important things in writing fiction are arguably plot, characterisation and setting. Today’s blogpost will be discussing setting, but not in the context of a fictional universe, but where I the writer craft such fictional universes. This is a view I am becoming quite familiar with; it’s the view from the work area…
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First Month Review
My new blog has been active a whole month now, and I’m really glad I bit the bullet and started afresh. It’s been a lovely chance to regroup and reorganise my efforts online. Brief thoughts: I am absolutely loving Wordpress; it’s just so much more powerful, capable and easier to manage than Blogger! It’s also nice…
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