Tag: Tess Grantham
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Cut-up Results (and mini competition)
Here a while back I mentioned a great idea Tess Grantham turned me on to – where you randomly select words from books as a way to challenge yourself in starting a story. So, here, in order, are the references and words: pg171, line 21, word 8 Crowed pg233, line 1, word 6 Want pg121,…
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Brilliant Post on Designing your own Covers!
A member of my writing group, Tess Grantham, has done an excellent post on DIY covers. Well worth a read if you’re interested in design, books or working on your own cover. And we all know it by now – we do judge a book by it’s cover. Feel free to drop off some links…
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Story Starter
If you’ve ever felt stuck on starting a story or poem, then here’s an idea that’s somewhat similar to the cut-up technique popularised by the Beats, but basically more fun! You’ll need a bookshelf for starters, and the rest is left to fate. Have a look at the awesome idea, which Tess Grantham showed me…
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Scribophile – a Writing Group
I’ve been meaning to post about a great online writer’s group for a long time now, but keep forgetting. It’s called Scribophile, and if you’re isloated from other writers – it’s a brilliant place. However – one of my critique partners CJ has actually written a much better post than what I’d come up with, so have…
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Tintin & Tess – a series of favourites, reflections and responses to Tintin by guest bloggers
. One of my fondest memories is discovering Tintin for the first time in a very dark corner of an empty high school library in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. It wasn’t my school—I was seven or eight at the time. The library was empty because it was a Sunday, and it was…
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