Writing Worksheet – What Next? (PDF) In honour of NaNoWriMo, this month’s worksheets will have one purpose: to increase your word count by hook or by book. A novel, even a short one of 50,000 words, comprises many more happenings than one might expect. If you find yourself at this mid-way point of the month,… Read More
During my MA, I took a particularly interesting module entitled, “Poetry After Darwin,” which examined the effects of Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’ on several poets of the era; how the book (and its geological predecessors) reshaped religion, identity, relationships, and the poets’ perception of the very Earth underfoot. It was not a subject… Read More
Writing Worksheet – Try/Fail Cycle In honour of NaNoWriMo, this month’s worksheets will have one purpose: to increase your word count by hook or by book. A try/fail cycle is another wonderful writerly device that confounds the character’s path from A to B by making them go in circles for a while, like an airplane… Read More
Writing Worksheet – Mini Quest (PDF) In honour of NaNoWriMo, this month’s worksheets will have one purpose: to increase your word count by hook or by book. A mini-quest is a small diversion on the character’s path. If the ultimate goal is to save the princess, then a mini-quest may be to find the magic… Read More
Here is my little tribute to Virginia Woolf, for her love of bookbinding and stream-of-consciousness writing. I saved these five book covers and their accompanying endpapers from the obscurity of the Archive, and I present them to you to print and use as you choose. They make very pretty A6 notebooks and you can easily… Read More
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