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If this review were to be depicted as a suitable caricature, it would probably look like this: The behaloed corpse of James Gillray is sitting upright upon his recently erected headstone at picaddilly with bug eyed delight about his mug. Before him, two figures are wrestling to present him with their hardbinded Paeons. A wide…
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Good morning! Thus begins my very first real piece of prose that I’ve posted on this blog – a short story! I’m going to be honest with you, I kind of cheated a little bit with this one – this piece was kind of a conglommeration of two pieces I wrote for my August “Writing…
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Hello!One last prompt before I get back to university: “What things give you energy”? Well, I’m not going to be an overbearing, classy science/Social jerk here and say something along the lines of “ATP Hydrolysis” or “BAN HYDROCARBONS!” or even “Why you should stop using Tiktok”. I’m going to stick relevant to writing. I write…
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Hello All.Sorry about the recent inactivity – I haven’t done my promised Advice entry, nor any stupid prompts or even an art piece for around a week, and even the previous entries for the past fornight have been,er, pointless. Aye, this is a portent…a portent of change coming for my blog. One that you may…
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Rise ‘n shinetm! After last night’s more-than-slightly irrelevant ramble – I was tired, okay – I’ve decided to get back on track with a blog post on something wordier. Todays prompt – “What’s your favourite word?” Sorry to be extremely cliched in my uncertainty, but that’s a hard choice. To be frank, I like a…
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Hello all! Sorry for the lack of posts last week. I was a tad busy with relatively mundane matters, as well as writing through the humidity-induced pain. Although I’m very much planning for next week’s advice post and returning to university, I’ve got nothing substantial to show you all yet… Aside from an expletive amount…
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Hey up all! Here’s to another writing advice session. Today, because I’ve decided to talk about something I’m personally very invested in. Perhaps unnecessarily more actually writing the novel itself: character design. I’ve been obsessed with making characters since I was a little brat, because I’ve got an eye for certain tics and traits. It’s…
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