I started blogging about two and a half years ago to give myself more opportunities in my writing. It’s been an interesting adventure, especially since I got a phone that has decent internet access and I can keep my blog up to date.
30 Days of Creative Writing:Day 21
Today’s exercise is about humour in writing, specifically parody. We’re going to parody a dictionary. I’ve been given a list of words and have to define them a la Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.
30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 20
I was going to skip a few chapters in the book and choose my favourite exercises for the next ten days. Continue reading “30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 20”
30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 19
Good evening, everyone had a good day? I’ve been at work. I can’t really complain since I only work two days a week, but I do get exhausted by Sunday afternoon. I managed to fit in at least a little writing on my breaks today.
30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 18
Today’s exercises are about personification of inanimate objects. I’m the first of two exercises a verb has to be swapped for a phrase, and in the second exercise I had to personify a piece if furniture in poetry or prose.
BBC History Magazine review of 12 Years a Slave
I’m hoping to see this film at some point so it’s good to hear it’s an accurate portrayal of the times. It makes a pleasant change.
30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 17, part the second
I’m back, and so soon.
The twelfth section of this book is actually a really quick exercise. It’s called ‘The blue man woke up’ and ‘was inspired in part by Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way’.
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30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 17
Good morning, after working on the ‘Hit & Miss Bibliomancy’ exercise on Wednesday and Thursday I am finally ready to unveil a sample of the short story that resulted from the three words I chose.
Review: ‘A God-Blasted Land: The Bastard Cadre # 1’ by Lee Carlon
Clockwork Samurai
Originally published 2011, this edition published October 2013
The first of three e-books published so far (the forth is in progress) about a group of young people bound from birth by magic to a gods Chosen representative. Set on a ravaged planet where cities have fallen into ruin, technology and magic co-exist, and the decimated population is ruled by a small group of Chosen and policed by the Bondsmen.
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30 days of Creative Writing: Day 15
Today I’m working on exercise 1 of the eleventh section of ‘Back to Creative Writing School’. This section is called ‘Hit and Miss Bibliomancy’.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 