Novels
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Hey up all!Now, what do you think is missing in today’s post, eh? Notice the concerning absence of a PDF or some pretentious title? Where’s the bloody monday short?! I cannot justify skipping this week’s short story – I admit, nothing I was producing seemed even remotely close to the quality I ought to serve…
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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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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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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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Oi oi oi! Hope we’ve all had a good morning – might as well write another insipid answer to another daily prompt to keep my writing muscles (E.g. handies) flexible. The flavour of the day is “What motivates you”? Now, it’s not easy to admit to what our motivations really are. It sounds all well…
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Hey up all! Quick apology again for failing to make one of these last weekend – there’s a previous post summarising that and inviting some artistic suggestions. Won’t repeat any of that for you sake (it’s bloody boring), so let’s just jump right into something that I myself have found quite relevant recently – CRITICISM!…
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Hey up! I promised I’m make a fresh bout of writing advice, didn’t I? Sorry for the delay. I’ve been very busy writing up my own novel and partaking in an online writing course to fudge any new entries for this blog. I hope my absence hasn’t deprived you of much – it’s not like…
Ben Easton - The Novel Hovel 