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30 days of Creative Writing: Day 6 & 7

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and all you other creatures.

I’m feeling less like death warmed up today, and am ready to get back on schedule. Let’s start with the creative writing course. Later I’ll post my review of Curtsies & Conspiracies.Continue reading “30 days of Creative Writing: Day 6 & 7”

Things I had planned to do today.

But probably won’t because I feel like my skull is cracking open:

Write a review of Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Work on exercise 6 in Back to Creative Writing School by Bridget Whelan

Go to college to do my module assessment (one step closer to getting my IT diploma)

Instead I think I’ll just sit here and read a book about the Sun. And wait for the pain to go away.

30 days of creative writing: Day 5

Good evening, I’m not feeling fantastic but I’m willing to give today’s exercise a go. Today’s is a game of Scrabble Fiction. Using all the words on the Scrabble board pictured in the book I have to write a story. This may take some time.
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30 days of creative writing: Day 2

Today’s exercise is in two parts, using description effectively. The same scene has to be described first with negative associations and then with positive associations in the first person, with a word count of 200 – 250 words for each paragraph.

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