August is my birthday month and I took some well-deserved time off work to relax a little over the summer. I treated myself to plenty of quiet reading time and had one of the best book months of 2024 so far. Here’s how my August reading stats shaped up: August reading reviews. Once Upon a […]
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Using sleep to fuel your creativity. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Poe It seems like a cliché but the truth is that ideas come to many of us through our dreams. The world of sleep is a vast unknown – filled with possibilities and impossibilities. Writers, musicians,
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July has been a very busy month with lots of fun social plans. I attended a gothic fiction workshop which has got some ideas flowing for a new piece that I’ve added to my future project planning list. I have also started work on mapping out a Choose Your Own Adventure book, it’s an incredible
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5 ways to tackle your TBR pile for free. The TBR Games. So many books, so little time. Book lovers love books. Sounds obvious, right? But somewhere along the line love can turn to obsession; a burning desire to possess every beautiful tome that catches your eye. And that intense feeling can become overwhelming. You
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Night Bloom by KL Massey. Spring was late and so was she. Natalia tucks her scarf tightly under the collar of her heavy wool coat. Her heels stutter across the polished concrete floor, razorblades nipping at her tired soles. She exits the building and the black glass doors seal behind her, offering no hope of
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June was a pretty productive month for my reading goals as I finished a few shorter books, helping bump up my total amount. Here’s how it went: And here’s how I rated them… Undead Folk by Katherine Silva Beyond the smoke-choked skies of an apocalyptic United States, a woman travels the desolate railroad tracks of
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May was a good month for my reading goals, and I managed to spend a lot of time reading thanks to being on vacation (yay!) followed by a brief bout of illness thanks to picking up an airport bug (boo!). So, here’s how it went: And here’s how I rated them… Red River Seven by
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or how I learned to stop worrying and love the art of writing I don’t like to punish myself by setting strict New Year’s resolutions, but I do like the fresh start of a brand new calendar to help set goals and intentions. There is something magic about these markers we create for ourselves in
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Square one: the drawing board So, you want to be a writer. Then why aren’t you writing? The desire to write can be appealing but also terrifying. Curiosity captures our imagination but fear lurks in our mind and holds us back. So how do we ever move out of our ordinary life and take that
Survival instinct Every day is Halloween when you’re a horror fan, and over the recent Easter break I found time to catch up on a few entries from my movie watchlist. I want to talk about No One Will Save You [2023] and how it twists the expectations of what horror means in our lives.
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