Advice
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Blurbs – an essential marketing tool! They provide your very first taste of the story within, enticing you to take another bite – er, figuratively speaking here. Hardbacks taste disappointing, mostly. But they can be made even worse if their blurbs are indoctrinated with stale adjectives, unclear context and enough spoilers to spoil your appetite.…
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A is for Aragorn, B is for Balrog, C is for WHERE IS NOUMENAL CHAPTER 2 BEN?! (While I’m not certain there is any audience at all for Book reviews, I decided it would be a good exercise this morning to help me recuperate from 4 days of intensive assignment work. But fear not –…
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No, this still isn’t Noumental Chapter 2, but here’s some news! I have recovered from a 5 day spell of creative fallout and am ready, fingers crossed, to get that nasty little project finished! I’ll be honest – the two thousand words that I wrote for the extract? Down to 1,000! My inner critic was…
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Ah, fuggit. To perhaps compensate for my lack of short story – more daily prompts! OH GOD! “What principles define how you live?” You might have observed already that I do not live by many mantras or any particular faith: I regularly blaspheme and am inclined to be sceptical about auras or whatever the hell…
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Hello dearies. Now, this decided to do something a bit different for this weekend update to kind of extend last week’s moral a bit (TLDR make writing difficult for yourself) – as you might’ve guessed from the title, I’m handing out prompts to the unwilling congregation! If you are in need of something to curb…
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The best challenges make you rather uncomfortable – they put you into unfamiliar territory and require you to use your guile to right yourself again. If you are comfortable, you don’t really feel the need to change, even if what you’re doing is detrimental. Let’s use sleep as an example – you ultimately choose to…
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Before I start this review, an acknowledgement – special thanks to my brother for spotting this in a store on his way back from a D&D game! Because of him, I didn’t have to pay £20 for this absolute whopper of a writing guide! Also, I acknowledge the fact that this has been posted a…
Ben Easton - The Novel Hovel 