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At the Quill

At the Quill: About creative writing in my experience and practice. Also posts about independent authorship and self-publishing. Read Creative Writing and Independent Authorship for more details or scroll down.

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Creative Writing and Independent Authorship

14 August, 202017 May, 2019

[Sticky Post] At the Quill is the category where I collect all my posts about creative writing. Also posts about independent authorship and self-publishing.

Categories At the Quill, Indie publishing
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Night of the Kings – storytelling and story creation

24 February, 202124 February, 2021

In Night of the Kings, a film from Ivory Coast, Roman, a new inmate in the MACA prison must entertain his fellow prisoners by telling a story.

Categories At the Quill, Film Review, Reviews
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The successfully organised and bulleted writer

25 December, 202023 December, 2020

Successfully organised and bulleted- that’s how I feel now at the end of 2020, thanks to The Bullet Journal Method and The Organised Writer.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews, Writing diary
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How I started keeping my New Year Resolutions

25 December, 202016 December, 2020

New Year Resolutions – year on year I made them and then I failed to keep them, until I worked out how to keep them alive all the year round.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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Flash fiction and the FlashNano 2020

2 December, 2020

About flash fiction and my response to Nancy Stohlman’s FlashNano 2020 writing challenge – why I took it on and what I got out of it.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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Writers Abroad, and Far Flung in print

18 November, 202011 November, 2020

The Writers Abroad international author’s peer group and the print publication soon of Far Flung: Celebrating A Decade of Writers Abroad.

Categories At the Quill
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Why I Really Don’t like Kindle

18 November, 20205 November, 2020

I can see advantages in having books in a Kindle app on an easily transported tablet, but what happens if you lose access to your account?

Categories At the Quill, Indie publishing
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Playing with art for exciting character development

14 October, 2020

Playing with Artbreeder and renaissance portraits to create faces for characters in Elin’s Story, my historical novel.

Categories At the Quill, Images
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Far flung writing: telling stories from a distance

1 October, 2020

Far Flung: Announcing the forthcoming publication of an anthology of writing celebrating a decade of the Writers Abroad authors community.

Categories At the Quill, Indie publishing
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What does it take to be a creative writer?

9 September, 20209 September, 2020

A call for tips on how to be a creative writer. Surely the skills I’ve developed as a content writer ought to be transferable?

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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall

18 January, 202112 August, 2020

Bring up the Bodies from Wolf Hall: a discussion of point of view in Hilary Mantel’s fantastic trilogy, and a discussion of character names.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review
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Childhood, the latest edition of The Poet magazine, includes two of my poems
Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

You may also like to read my blog post about Far Flung and about my writers group.

Published poet (again)

The Poet magazine published another four of my poems in its Summer: On the Road edition. You can buy a copy (Kindle or print) by following this link.

Red Planet magazine
Red Planet magazine published my short science fiction story "Patchwork" in its March 2020 edition. You can download a copy as a PDF ($3) by following this link.

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