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on writing when you have -578 motivation
Motivation is one of those things that is completely elusive to me. I barely recognise and make use of it when I do have it; and most of the time, I have to find ways to compensate for its lack. Writing is hard enough on a good day when the…
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on blogger’s block
When you started your blog, it didn’t seem too difficult a task to post about one thing just once a week. It didn’t have to be anything intellectual, just something you were passionate, excited, or curious about. A book. A movie. A childhood memory. A recent win. Anything. You did…
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on a writer’s toolbox
It was only way after I finished my first draft of a short story collection that I truly understood that ‘help’ and ‘resources’ were not a bad thing. I’d always thought of writing as a very solitary, isolated experience. That you came up with an idea, wrote it down as…
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on unreliable narrators
One of my favourite tropes in media is that of the unreliable narrator. Typically, a tacit agreement is made with any piece of media before you enter it—that the narrator is telling you the truth of what is happening or has happened. This implicit trust in the narrator is shaken…