Icy Sedgwick

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How to break out of a creative rut

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RIP Ray Bradbury

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I was saddened yesterday to hear that Ray Bradbury, the legendary writer, had died at the age of 91. The author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes has been widely credited as a huge inspiration to hundreds of writers, and is often believed to be the figure most responsible […]

Burned out and washed up?

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Hello all, remember me? Wow, this makes a change, a blog post that’s not a photo prompt or a Friday flash! I know, I know, I’ve been somewhat lacking when it comes to writing blog posts of late. I’ve been telling myself it’s because I’ve been too busy. If I haven’t been working on stuff […]

Lucky Seven Meme

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I was tagged by both Helen Howell and Sonya Clark for a Lucky Seven Excerpt. The rules are simple: 1. Go to page 77 in your current manuscript 2. Go to line 7 3. Copy down the next seven lines as they are – no cheating 4. Tag 7 other authors (Done on Facebook) This […]

Mid-January Update

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Yesterday I introduced myself again over on Write Anything – albeit myself as a writer, not as a person. It’s part of their project to get the readers of the blog to get to know the contributors. I like to think that the two are actually fairly closely linked, but it got me thinking again […]

A New Year Dawns

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It is now New Year’s Day, the first day of yet another new year, albeit one with the added bonus of an extra day. Of course, if you believe the conspiracy theorists, one extra day won’t make up for losing most of the year due to catastrophe, but I tend not to subscribe to the […]