Reaching the peak
Conscious or unconscious, realistic or fantastic, we all have goals of one kind or another. My goals as a writer have always been fairly understated,...
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#CaptiveReader – Spring and the Arachnodactylist
During this Covid-19 pandemic, songwriter Carrie Newcomer has been singing a song every night from her living room. I was inspired by that to try...
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Writing by the Numbers
Since my writing career is so neatly encapsulated by the 2010s, I thought I'd take a look at some more detailed statistics. Note that the...
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What I Did Last Decade
Words from an Absent Willow An overview of my literary endeavours in the 2010s. Tl;dr: I got published I started to take writing seriously and...
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Awards eligibility 2019
As a writer The year's not over yet! But while I've got some things in train, none seem likely to publish before next year, so...
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Beginnings 110 – Auld Lang Syne, Ch. 10
It’s Saturday. A day for sleeping in, for pretending I’ve successfully played sick and avoided school, for luxuriating in having nothing to do. The sun...
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Beginnings 109 – The Humblebract Expedition
“He needs to have fun.” The guildmaster put his hand lovingly on the back of a pudgy adolescent boy about my age. “I want him...
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Beginnings 108 – Fountainhead
“I’m sorry,” she said at last. She had been staring out the window – a ‘phore’, they called it here – watching starbirds hover in...
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