Tag: writing
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Down Time
Tl;dr: My debut poetry collection is available for pre-order NOW under a NEW NAME and will officially launch in January! If you like nostalgia/memory, confessional writing, and a poetry collection with a dedicated playlist, snap up a copy here: https://reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/book/ybs/ Also, this website will be taken down sometime soon but the previous posts will be moved…
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Why a Blog?
I’m writing what will hopefully be a quick note, but given its importance, it might wind up much longer than intended. If you read to wherever it ends, congrats. Recently, I’ve noticed quite a few of my fellow writers have launched Substacks. Faced with countless rejections, an industry that treats any project that whiffs of…
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Goodbyes
The stages of grief are so well-known they’ve joined the armchair psychologist’s lexicon. However, if you’ve experienced grief, you’ve probably noticed the moment you passed through each stage, how you can still fluctuate between them. Sometimes, when you think you’ve reached Acceptance, you start Bargaining again. Or you’re mired in Bargaining and slip back into…
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What Did I Write?
In her recent video on Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy, video essayist Laura Crone does an excellent sidebar into the “unhinged zone” where she discusses the issues with and inherent superiority of Literary Fiction. As I watched, I completely agreed with her criticisms; I also resent the idea that one amorphous category of literature is…
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How to Write Spec Fic
I don’t know what I’ve gotten myself into. A year ago, I launched a Substack on the foolhardy belief I was ready to write a massive work of speculative fiction. Because my writing veers towards epistolary for longer works, the plan was to drip-feed characters’ diary entries as blog posts and create an online archive…
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Zero-Sum
Since my last post, I have received one agent rejection and one (or three?) competition rejection(s). Indomitable, I continue to write whatever words appear in my head and pay for disappointment; I’m not writing to make money, but it is sickening when other people profit from your disenchantment. And that’s what I want to write…