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I mentioned this topic in the last post given I was talking about coming to the end of a manuscript and how that involves a lot of self-editing, and it was something I wanted to go into more detail about. It’s a process almost all creatives have to go through and it certainly isn’t theContinue reading “Self-Editing”

Ambitions; they’re pretty much something we all have at one point or another, right? Whether it’s based on education, career, family, lifestyle, a lot of people tend to mark off moments in their life based on what they have and what they want, milestones they’ve achieved and milestones they’re reaching for. A lot of lifeContinue reading “Ambitions”

So, the world’s come back to you in some way. Whether you’ve been travelling, living abroad, daydreaming, planning for the future, or you’ve just generally been away from where you’ve settled either figuratively (sitting in your head, wondering about what comes next) or literally (perhaps living and studying abroad as I have been this year),Continue reading “Coming Back to Reality”

I’m going to preface this by admitting that, whilst I’ve been living the expat life, I haven’t been writing all that much. I’ve mentioned this in previous posts as well but I think it’s important to mention it again in this post in particular. This post is all about how being an expat can helpContinue reading “How Being An Expat Can Help You Write”

For anybody who doesn’t know, a WIP stands for a ‘Work In Progress’, and if you know anyone who is an artist in any form, I can guarantee they have gone through a time where they have dozens upon dozens upon dozens of WIPs smothering them. Perhaps that will be in the form of foldersContinue reading “My July – Overwhelmed by WIPs”

I got sick twice during the month of June, and not THAT kind of sick; they were colds from being so on the go for so long, my body was forcing me to take a break. Twice, apparently. The same thing happened at Christmas if you read my post a few months ago. It’s theContinue reading “Getting Introspective”

At the moment of posting this, I have been living in another country for over three months. It has been a whirlwind of emotions and experiences. From making foreign friends, eating food I would never eat at home, and doing lots of touristy things whilst also making time for the study and work that I’mContinue reading “Experiences and Contentment”

As you can see from the title, this one is a little less to do with novels, but it still has to do with stories, and that’s what we talk about here. We talk about tales and whilst I’m aiming to become an author, there was a time where I actually wanted to be aContinue reading “Blood on the Camera: A Metaphor for Reminding the Audience of Story Devices at Work”

So much of what we consume is art. A television series, a film, video games, books, puzzles, trips to the museum. We, as human beings, constantly surround ourselves with art that other people have produced, and that’s really beautiful. We look to these sources of creativity, and we absorb it into our own lives toContinue reading “The Importance of Creative Outlets”