2018 in Retrospect
2018 was definitely a year full of emotions and roller-coasters for me. It had its up and downs, its great and not-so-great moments but there is no way in hell I am going to forget it.…
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February 9, 2019
Reading Pledge 2019
Last year I've made a similar post with a very long and compulsive list of books I felt I should read - all those I had at home gathering dust and calling to be read. Unfortunately life got…
January 1, 2019
NaNoWriMo a.k.a A Crazy Writer at Large month
If you're reading this blog you probably know already what NaNoWriMo is but let's cover the basics anyway. Who knows? We can be sharing the word with a new, staring writer. NaNoWriMo (short of National Novel Writing Month)…
November 1, 2018
Resonance in Writing
It's been a while since my last post so I'm sorry about that :D It turns out creating a habit of managing a blog while trying to work, read, have a social life and sleep is very hard. Luckily, most…
October 1, 2018
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Using SETTING in Fiction [Part 2]
Last week we spoke about using different aspect of SETTING in our stories and namely, using sounds to enhance a scene, a character, an emotion. This week we move on to another aspect that can help us make…
May 17, 2018
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Using SETTING in Fiction [Part 1]
Recently I wrote another post called "The Role of Setting in Fiction" where we discussed how important the use of setting is and what kind of role it plays in any kind of book, especially fiction. I know…
May 10, 2018
The Role of SETTING in Fiction
As writers we have to think of so many things to get our story to work - interesting characters and places, unexpected turns and twists, impeccable grammar and punctuation and so on, and so on. There are some…
April 23, 2018
The Role of TIME in Fiction
So after some soul-searching and unpleasant head-banging in the writer's block I have decided that it is time to take a short break from writing and focus a bit more on reading and learning how to do the…
March 30, 2018
Timeout
Timeout After careful consideration I have decided I needed time away from writing. Don't get me wrong, I feel the urge to write every day but I have realized that everything I am writing now is... shit. Well,…
March 26, 2018
The mistakes we all make
Let's face it - we've all thought long and hard about how to make our story better, how to get more readers, get more recognition and have this WOW moment when somebody says "This writer is amazing! They know…
January 1, 2018
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