Tag: Creative
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Spirits in Isolation
Flash fiction or vignette for our word of the week: Hermetic
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2024 IN BOOKS
My best and worst books of 2024 and reading goals for the year ahead
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Musical Maladies
Flash Fiction featuring a cavalry charge, ice-cream and brass instruments. Exploring the meaning of cornet
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African Fairy tale
A compelling hero telling a simple but compelling tale with a bittersweet ending.
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Modish Living
A vignette featuring a overworked CEO, fashionable handbags and trouble. Word of the Week is Modish.
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NaNoWriMo 2024
How did the National Novel Writing Month Challenge go for me in 2024, and what did I learn from the experience about novel writing
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He had it Coming
Words for this week. Consigliere, consanguinity, germane, higgledy-piggledy
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Toxic Dreams
A possibly unpopular take on YellowFace by RF Kuang, which basically explores how to ruin your own authorial career while also coming off as racist
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Internal Monologues Suck
Review of the Spells we Cast by Jason June in which I discuss the use of the internal monologue (or character interiority) and the ways its misused.
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A Basha in Any Storm
A vignette with this weeks words of the week. Is that basha ready yet? The colonel shouted from across the fire with even more asperity than he generally displayed.