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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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From the reservoir: a decade of TheSupercargo in August

12 January, 202225 August, 2021

After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.

Categories At the Quill, Commonplace, Images, Reviews, Stops and Stories
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Podcast creativity, thinking aloud and Elin’s Story

10 June, 2021

Thinking about podcast scripts, trying to move forward with Elin’s Story, my historical novel, and exploring my own creative process as I go.

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Taking to heart Douglas Adams’ “note to self”

31 March, 2021

Douglas Adams, wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, yet had terrible difficulties in writing. He wrote himself this note of encouragement.

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.

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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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My short story "Quinn and the Boxcar" published in the October 2021 edition of ArtAscent magazine. Available now (click this caption)!
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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.

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At the Quill - Blog posts about reading, writing and self-publishing Stops & Stories - Blog posts about travel, people and places Articulations - Stories, poems, doodles and memoirs Reviews - Reviews and my Reading Diary Images - Single photos, photo essays, digital art Speech - Video clips and Vlogging with TheSupercargo

Most popular posts published in 2021

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Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners
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City of Lights, libraries and bridges – back to Sundsvall
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Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea
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Pilgrim, Riddly and setting free the turtles
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Shanks’s pony is getting tired

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on
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When did they begin, the Beguine?
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Princess Uncumber – a retold tale
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Why I really don’t like Kindle
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Book boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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