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Friday, Apr. 25, 2025

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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:

S 🤦

Apr 22, 2025 at 12:32am
In response to "20250421 Reposting Another Old Blog - Negative Reviews"

To those who have emailed me...

I am serious. He wanted to kill me for making fun of Jesus. The fact I am on the other side of the world and he is a keyboard warrior nowadays would probably make me goad him; back then, I did panic.

So, yes, he wanted to kill me. Seriously.

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Amethyst Angel 💐

Apr 21, 2025 at 1:41am
In response to "20250421 Reposting Another Old Blog - Negative Reviews"

Glad they didn't carry it out! Some reviews totally cross the line. Around here, we get spoiled... I feel peeved when someone gives me three stars. I think I especially hate it when they say "hey, good story..." Without any reason for giving less than five stars, or at least four if it just didn't appeal to them

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Apr 18, 2025 at 2:04am
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.

March 28, 2025 at 12:03am

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20250328 Writing Advice From Lucy Clark

Writing Advice From Lucy Clark

So, in this post I am going to steal some writing advice from a fellow writer. It comes from Lucy Clark, a romance writer I discovered when I first started to read romance.

5 Tips To Writing Your Novel by Lucy Clark (with added comments by me)

1. If you don’t write your story, who will? (Seems basic, but it is the basis of all writing. You have a story – you, no-one else. Write it. It’s your story. Write it. Write it!)

2. Procrastinate… but then write. (And that’s what it comes down to – if you want to write eventually you are going to have to, you know, write.)

3. You make time to go to the gym, work, sleep, socialise, so why not make time to write? (And this is something that gets me. So many people say to me, “I want to write, but I can’t find the time.” Well, as Lucy Clark says, if you can find the time for everything else, then you can find time to write.)

4. Research is MASSIVE and time-consuming and from all the info you collate, you’ll condense it to two lines in your story. (I’ve sort of covered this in the past, but this is such a good way to put it. Even though you might know what you’re talking about, it doesn’t mean you have to dump it all at your reader to show that you have done your research. Research is vital to make sure your story works – even though in some books that are wonderful, the research is lacking – but you don’t have to browbeat your reader with your new-found knowledge.)

5. Give yourself permission to write a ‘vomit’ draft (get it out of you). You can fix a bad page but you can’t fix a blank page. (Couldn’t have put it better myself. That’s what second drafts are for.)

Some more great advice from another writer. Can’t beat it.

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