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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: Book Review
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Plot Summary At a party thrown by her parents, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed – again. Aiden Bishop has eight days and eight bodies to solve a murder. To be more specific, he has one day eight times. Seeing each day through new...
Active and Passive Voice: What’s the Difference?
The terms active and passive voice get chucked around a fair bit. But what’s actually the difference between them? And does it matter which one you’re using? In today’s blog post we’re going to go through what we mean by the active and passive voice. We’re also going...
Extract: Utrecht Rain by Jonathan Wilkins
Cover of Utrecht Rain, by Jonathan Wilkins. I was provided with an extract from Utrecht Rain to post for the Damp Pebbles Blog Tour! Utrecht Rain Maandag Chapter I Dom Toren, Nacht She realised quite quickly what it must feel like to be a football as the boot thudded...
Character Wants – Are They Necessary?
“What does your character want?” Have you ever come up against that question and felt stumped? I have. I can have a good sense of a character, and their story, and still find it hard to articulate what it is that they ‘want’. Do your characters need to have clearly...
White Fragility: Book Review
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism synopsis Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has -...
The Benefits of Challenges
For writing, and everything else! I signed up for a new challenge recently. I was meant to be doing another Tough Mudder event in September, but this has now been officially cancelled. In the absence of any Tough Mudder events running this year, they're putting on...