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Winter thoughts
When in doubt about a scene, when it feels wrong, broken-backed, vague… … go to the core relationship. Who is doing what to whom, with whom and why. I need to keep reminding myself of this, every single time. … Continue reading
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Digipocalypse
Right now the universe seems determined to separate me from the keyboard; in December, only 4 days after successfully completing 50K words to win Nanowrimo, my laptop (an infant of only six month age, sir) slipped from my hand as I packed … Continue reading
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Piecing the Puzzle
Those first pieces were 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 8,000 words long. But there was a longer story nudging at my subconscious, bubbling up to the surface in bits and pieces and bobbing there ready to be netted and brought aboard. The … Continue reading
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Word Fever
I remember vividly my first attempts to corral scraps of words into a longer form piece. It was over 15 years ago, in a north London cafe which managed to be both aggressively overlit and irremediably gloomy. The words in … Continue reading
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Haddock
It’s frankly extraordinary that almost 500 years after the reformation the café at work still serves fish every Friday. Haddock and cod fishcakes to be precise. With chips. Yum.
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