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What counts as ‘writing’?
Occasionally, fanfic discourse drifts aimlessly across my timeline and I find myself ravelled up, reading arguments about whether fanfiction counts as truly “writing”. And I firmly believe that it does. Not just because if you are crafting words and putting them in a deliberate order, then what else could you be doing? The use of…
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Endings, distractions and procrastination
I have a truly, truly terrible habit when it comes to finishing things… I just don’t. I don’t finish them. I get to about the 80% mark and run out of steam – it’s why I am so proud of HFHS, as it is the first novel that is entirely my own, and has a…
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Meet the character: Rowan
Okay, so, Rowan is my favourite character that I have ever created for the pure and simple reason that I have put this poor woman through hell. When she first appears, as the narrator of HFHS, she has already had a pretty awful series of events happen to her. She is in exile, she is…
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Juggling my own imaginary worlds
I fear that the inverse of procrastination always leads to the exact same outcome. I seem to have two modes at the moment; either I will write every waking hour of my life that I can cram writing into, or I will feel physically sick at the thought of opening my laptop. Yet, even when…
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Meet the character: Lily
Okay, so, Lily was originally meant to be the protagonist of Hell Forged, Heaven Sent but the thing is She’s kinda boring? She is very much meant to be the archetypal main character in a YA fantasy, which is a great character to have, but I just couldn’t bear to write from her perspective the…
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Redrafting hurts and I don’t like it
I am vividly aware that all writers complain about the editing stage of their works, and I used to think that this was purely melodrama. Yeah. I do not think this anymore. I get the complaints so much more than I ever thought I could. It is fun! In a bizarre, masochistic, sadistic, cruel kind…
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Hannah J Boddy 