Tag: creative-writing
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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…
Hannah J Boddy 