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Writing Blog Number 2

by S 🤦

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2311764

This is a continuation of my blogging here at WdC

This will be a blog for my writing, maybe with (too much) personal thrown in. I am hoping it will be a little more interactive, with me answering questions, helping out and whatnot. If it falls this year (2024), then I may stop the whole blogging thing, but that's all a "wait and see" scenario.

An index of topics can be found here: "Writing Blog No.2 Index"

Feel free to comment and interact.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Kåre เลียม Enga

about 4 hours ago
In response to "20240418 An Old Blog (Story Matters!)"

The advice is really really good. May inspire me to write a 'decent' story. We'll see. My goals are poetry at the moment and establishing new habits.

citruspocket

Apr 14, 2025 at 2:45am
In response to "20250414 Novel #4"

Thanks for the insight - I enjoyed reading this!

I think you must have high standards for yourself. Your "bad" is a lot better than a lot of "good" (published) books out there.

S 🤦

Apr 12, 2025 at 12:24am
In response to "20250409 Australian Publishing 1"

citruspocket - I have a 50 page rule. Within 50 [pages, I give up. But many of these I read to be patriotic or for school or for book clubs.

Never again.

And I hope you enjoyed the Magic Pudding even if the pudding itself was a little scary...

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citruspocket

Apr 9, 2025 at 2:52am
In response to "20250409 Australian Publishing 1"

I decided a long time ago that if I'm bored or struggling with a book, then I'll give it up... there are far too many good ones out there to waste time struggling with a bad one! My opinion was formed by reading a few Literary books which mostly seemed to be about boring adults getting divorced... Now I read a lot of sci fi and fantasy, much more fun

As a sidenote, I have Australian relatives so read The Magic Pudding when I was younger! I remember finding the illustrations of the pudding a little bit scary though...

S 🤦

Apr 8, 2025 at 12:48am
In response to "20250407 Book Review – How Not To Write A Novel"

citruspocket Carol St.Ann 👓 - I hope you will not be disappointed. I found it quite useful, especially for 2nd drafts.

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Carol St.Ann 👓

Apr 7, 2025 at 7:57am
In response to "20250407 Book Review – How Not To Write A Novel"

This is a great review, Steven. You’ve convinced me it’s worthy of purchase.

citruspocket

Apr 7, 2025 at 3:01am
In response to "20250407 Book Review – How Not To Write A Novel"

Ooh, I haven't heard of this, thanks for the recommendation! The quote made me snort-chuckle, so I think I'll enjoy it...

tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

Apr 4, 2025 at 3:00pm
In response to "20250404 The Music Of Writing"

I find myself distracted by the lyrics if music is playing while I write, even if it's just instrumental, my mind starts putting lyrics in. Instead, I have found different background sounds work with my writing and have used thunderstorm sounds work well for action and horror, while soft rain or waterfalls work with more mellow writing.

citruspocket

Apr 4, 2025 at 1:38pm
In response to "20250404 The Music Of Writing"

As someone who has to write in complete silence (minus whatever ambient noises are going on around me at the time...

, this is so interesting! Perhaps I'll try different types of music the next time I'm writing, and see what genre I end up with...

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JASmith

Apr 4, 2025 at 7:31am
In response to "20250404 The Music Of Writing"

It's fascinating that you write different genres to different music. Music influences my writing as well, but I've never studied to see if there is a correlation. Perhaps evaluating that is an exercise for someday.

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#280. 20240418 An Old Blog (Story Matters!)
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#279. 20250416 Quick Look At Small Press Publications
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#278. 20250414 Novel #4
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#277. 20250411 Australian Publishing 2
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#276. 20250409 Australian Publishing 1
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#275. 20250407 Book Review – How Not To Write A Novel
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#274. 20250404 The Music Of Writing
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#273. 20250402 Clearing The Mind To Write
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#272. 20250401 External Writerings March 2025
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#271. 20250331 Novel #3
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#270. 20250328 Writing Advice From Lucy Clark
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#269. 20250326 Reading And Watching
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#268. 20250324 One Situation, Many Writers
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#267. 20250321 Novels #1 & #2
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#266. 20250319 Profanity
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#265. 20250317 Offending The Reader
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#264. 20250314 Moon Names
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#263. 20250312 Monster Dictionary Update
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#262. 20250310 Pseudo-Reality pt.2
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#261. 20250307 The "True"Story
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#260. 20250305 Publishers et al. To Avoid
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#259. 20250303 External Writerings Feb 2025
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#258. 20250228 Show Not Tell - An Example
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#257. 20250226 Dateless Time Setting
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#256. 20250224 Annoying Detective Tropes
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#255. 20250221 Pseudo-reality
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#254. 20250219 Ending Without Ending
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#253. 20250217 Romance Tropes I Like
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#252. 20250214 Weird Love Songs
ID #1083829 entered on February 14, 2025 at 12:22am

#251. 20250212 Science Fiction Tropes I Like
ID #1083732 entered on February 12, 2025 at 1:30am

#250. 20250210 Science Fiction Tropes I Dislike
ID #1083612 entered on February 10, 2025 at 12:19am

#249. 20250207 Horror Tropes I Like
ID #1083450 entered on February 8, 2025 at 3:18am

#248. 20250205 Monster Dictionary Update
ID #1083331 entered on February 5, 2025 at 5:11am

#247. 20250203 External Writerings Jan 2025
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#246. 20250131 Mythological Or Legendary Creatures As Cliché
ID #1083039 entered on January 31, 2025 at 12:11am

#245. 20250129 Songs For Year Of The Snake
ID #1082977 entered on January 29, 2025 at 12:05am

#244. 20250127 List Of Bad Tropes
ID #1082846 entered on January 27, 2025 at 12:05am

#243. 20250124 Three Character Trope Issues
ID #1082735 entered on January 24, 2025 at 12:05am

#242. 20250122 Romance Tropes That Annoy Me
ID #1082658 entered on January 22, 2025 at 1:36am

#241. 20250120 Utilising Peter's Evil Overlord List
ID #1082589 entered on January 20, 2025 at 1:27am

#240. 20250117 My Most Hated Tropes
ID #1082453 entered on January 17, 2025 at 12:11am

#239. 20250115 Current Writing Trend Issue (The Chosen One Trope)
ID #1082374 entered on January 15, 2025 at 1:51am

#238. 20250113 Vocabulary Matters
ID #1082298 entered on January 13, 2025 at 1:14am

#237. 20250110 The 'Of' Naming Trope
ID #1082194 entered on January 10, 2025 at 12:31am

#236. 20250108 Naming Characters
ID #1082117 entered on January 8, 2025 at 1:21am

#235. 20250106 Using Holidays In Writing
ID #1082027 entered on January 6, 2025 at 12:23am

#234. 20250104 Balance between too much and not enough
ID #1081926 entered on January 4, 2025 at 12:12am

#233. 20250103 External Writerings XII
ID #1081867 entered on January 2, 2025 at 6:29pm

#232. 20241229 Debunking "Facts"
ID #1081676 entered on December 29, 2024 at 1:03am

#231. 20241228 Messages In Writing
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#230. 20241226 Pointless Scenes
ID #1081526 entered on December 26, 2024 at 12:58am

#229. 20241222 Epistolary Writing
ID #1081392 entered on December 22, 2024 at 12:31am

#228. 20241221 Kudzu Plotting
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#227. 20241219 'Misogyny' In Writing
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#226. 20241218 Children Characters
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#225. 20241217 Punk Genres II
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#224. 20241216 Poor Characterisation
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#223. 20241215 Rewriting Classics
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#222. 20241214 Punk Genres
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#221. 20241212 Stages Of Grief
ID #1081060 entered on December 12, 2024 at 12:26am

#220. 20241211 Using Numbers In Writing
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#219. 20241210 The Power Of Three
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#218. 20241209 Antagonists
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#217. 20241208 Protagonist and Antagonist
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#216. 20241207 Problems With Using Reality
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#215. 20241206 2 Videos On Writing
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#214. 20231204 My Writing Technique
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#213. 20231203 External Writerings XI
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#183. 20241103 - NaNo-03
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#182. 20241102 NaNo-02
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#181. 20241101 NaNo-01
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