So this weekend was Fall Break, which meant I had four days of uninterrupted laziness. I thought this was suitable to qualify for one of the America challenges Abbii set me.

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Harper Voyager, the global science fiction and fantasy imprint of HarperColins is accepting unsolicited manuscripts for the first time in ten years for two weeks from 1st-14th October 2012 in the following genres: adult and young adult speculative fiction for digital publication, but particularly epic fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, horror ( Read more... )

4. Who would you say are your main ~creative influences~?

This is going to sound super lame, but I really like the new writing styles that are coming out of the online community. Because everyone knows the same in-jokes and people are writing for their friends, and no one is editing writing for a mainstream audience, there tends to be a lot more ( Read more... )

I've written a novel! How did that happen? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh What do I do now?
It was a really undramatic finish because I'd had the last few chapters done for months and i was just matching up the ends, but it's done!! Ended up 254 pages, 121,000 words.

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So a few things happened that I guess to should tell you about. I'm struggling to get back into the blogging thing since exams/my tumblr hiatus. This was a thing I was good at and now I can't ( Read more... )

So, before I started writing the Epic Novel, Abbii and I tried to write a romance novel. We didn't get very far. It's very cringey, but I'm fighting my urge to bury it forever because I thought Abbii might want to read it. This is from June 2009, when we were 16.


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i got stuck on the writing challenge for a funny story so i thought i'd skip it for now and bump through a few more to get myself back into it.

Write about your favourite bookThe boring but accurate answer is that my favourite book changes all the time. So I will recommend instead a book I think everyone should read ( Read more... )

I go to uni on Saturday. For real this time- I have no plans to be back until the start of November, but my nan and brother have plans to visit. This time next week I'll be shopping and cooking for myself, and doing coursework again, and preparing for labs, and....I am very excited about it. These last few weeks I have definately been noticing the ( Read more... )

so my next writing challenge thing is to write a funny story which i would usually be all over but at the minute i am completely stressed out by stuff (moving out and living on my own omg, having a major argument with a friend, another friend being in hospital, remaking my dads website for him) so that will have to wait ( Read more... )

Day whatever (5?): Since when have you been writing, and what type of stories do you write? Why?
I started by writing fanfiction about my dogs. This is from when I was about 12 or 13 maximum. I’m not sure when I started it though:

The door into the warm house closed on the dogs, leaving them in the dark garden. Once they realised that all that was ( Read more... )