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Of Tea and Idiots and Ominous Crashes (aka Story Snippets)

I fear that my last few posts - including this one - have been a little on the slapdash side. I apologize. I do have an actual substantive post in the works, which I should be posting by the end…

By Lizzie Hexam August 10, 2024Bookishness6 Comments

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Beautiful People: Pauline Gantley

Audio version of "Beautiful People: Pauline Gantley" is available here. A little while ago I did a ramblish post regarding first drafts and writer's block. I mentioned a project of mine (known henceforth as Pauline Story Take 3), and the…

By Lizzie Hexam June 21, 2024Bookishness12 Comments

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Short Ramblings on First Drafts (& Snippets)

Wow...writing is one of my Things, enough of a Thing that I mention it in my About Me section and everything, and how many blog posts have I written about writing? One. One measly little blog post. So today I'll…

By Lizzie Hexam April 26, 2024Bookishness14 Comments

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Ten Sentence Prompts to Get Your Writing Juices Flowing

"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose." - P.G. Wodehouse (P.G. Wodehouse, by the way, is a bloke who wrote over ninety books. The word…

By Lizzie Hexam June 27, 2023BookishnessNo Comments

Of Tea and Idiots and Ominous Crashes (aka Story Snippets)

Beautiful People: Pauline Gantley

Short Ramblings on First Drafts (& Snippets)

Ten Sentence Prompts to Get Your Writing Juices Flowing

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