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Writing diary

This sub-category of At the Quill collects all my occasional diary entries about my writing.

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How Can You Read Poetry?

18 December, 202415 May, 2024

How do you read poetry? I’ve recently been wrestling with this, a question that came up unexpectedly. Here’s the strategy I’ve found.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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Writing on NaNoWriMo23

16 November, 2023

My participation in NaNoWriMo23 rolls along and I’m ‘winning’ badges for my achievements. Here is a breakdown!

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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Stephen King and the Stockholm Writers’ Festival

30 August, 2023

The middle weekend of August, I attended the Stockholm Writers’ Festival (SWF) for 2023. As luck would have it, I was at the same time reading my very first Stephen King book. The post I wrote from this happy confluence of events I published on the website of my writers’ group, Pens Around the World. … More…

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews, Writing diary
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On the The Guardian Masterclass Summer Writers’ Retreat

4 August, 2022

A short notification that I’m taking part in – and very much enjoying – the Guardian Masterclass summer writers’ retreat.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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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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Panic on the writing course – writing diary

2 August, 20202 July, 2020

A panic attack was perhaps not the best way to start my participation in the six week Novel Writing Essentials course with Bill Ryan as tutor.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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Writing Essentials – a writing diary entry

3 August, 20203 June, 2020

Writing Essentials – a writing diary entry that takes up the Novel Writing Essentials course at Writers & Artists I’m following and #Stuckhome – the virtual SWF20 from the end of May.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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April showers – a writing diary entry

4 August, 202029 April, 2020

April showers – of the tax declaration and coronavirus lockdown variety – are excuses for my faltering productivity, but I soldier on.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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Most popular posts published in 2023

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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – a review (March)
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Character building with Lajos Egri (May)
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You are you and that’s Okey! Photos from Stockholm (September)
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It’s the end of the world and X marks the spot (August)
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Juxtaposition and Creativity (May)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on (2018)
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Antiques and memories (2015)
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Vai: across the South Pacific – a review (2020)
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The short summer night – a translation (2020)
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