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Five Top Tips for Getting Feedback from People You Know
I don’t know about you, but I find asking the people close to me for feedback on my writing totally terrifying. What if they hate it? What if they don’t think it makes any sense? What if they think the character that I like the best is completely foul? What if they...
Vaguely Vegetarian
This needs to be said before anything else: this post is absolutely not intended as a criticism of people who eat meat, or other animal products. I don’t think being vegan/vegetarian makes you a good person, and I don’t think eating meat makes you a bad person....
On Being Bi
Recently I was having a conversation with some friends and Partner about a play with a premise I thought sounded really interesting. It centres around a lesbian couple, one of whom comes out as trans, causing her partner to have to re-evaluate where she stands in...
NaNoWhatNow?
Do you think you could write 50 000 words in a month? Or, perhaps the more pertinent question, would you even want to? I’ve heard a lot of different thoughts on NaNoWriMo since I first encountered the idea a few years ago, and I feel like most of them have been...
Choosing Your Self
How do you decide which version of yourself to be? Not just at any one time or on a particular occasion, but in general? There are a few reasons why ‘just be yourself’ is often completely useless advice, but for me one of the main things that springs to mind when I’m...
Getting Weddinged
A beautiful princess gown, trailing flowers, an angelic chorus singing you down the aisle while friends and family wipe teary eyes. The stereotype suggests that, as a woman, I’ve spent my whole life planning the perfect wedding down to the smallest detail. Well, to...