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My 2020 Plan has included reading all those helpful books I have acquired but never actually read. I bought a brand new A4 notebook, to put all my notes into, with the idea that this notebook would contain the sum total of all my research on the art of writing. And so that the books… Continue reading Elements of Style
I recently read The Anatomy of Story, by John Truby and now I understand story more deeply than if I had read for a thousand years. I could never have afforded any kind of college or graduate level course in creative writing. And the few books I bought on the subject were mostly creative writing… Continue reading “The Anatomy of Storytelling” Should Be Titled “How to Take Your Lumpy Mashed Potato Mess of A Story and Turn it Into the Classiest Duchess Potatoes You Ever Ate. WITH Nutmeg.”
I am excited to share with you my latest article to be published. Writing is a much longer journey for me these days. Once I could spend all weekend scribbling in my notebook, or a whole train journey plotting out a story. I wasted hours of my unfettered evenings with trash TV or - gasp!… Continue reading Working Hard, or Hardly Working
I’m not good at resolutions. I’m not good at sticking to new habits or ideas. I have lost count of how many times I have said, “THIS is the year I stop cracking my knuckles.” I’ve never managed it. But I know I have to set goals for 2019. I had no set goal for… Continue reading Goal Setting in 2019
The auditorium was full, and had the look of spilling over, as the aisles were arrayed with mothers standing and bouncing rather than sit with their fractious babies. Already this was a show I can get along with – one that understands that parents want to do things too, and it’s not always feasible or… Continue reading I Saw Emily Writes & Holly McNish
Fiona S Giles Writing 