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The Sound of Music
A fact about me is that I love musicals. The Sound of Music is one of my favourites, and back when I held ambitions to be a musical theatre performer, I wanted to one day portray Maria. (I also wanted to be Marius in Les Miserables, but that’s another story). For anyone that doesn’t know,…
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Li’l’ Update
Since I last blogged (April 2023) quite a bit has happened. I’ve gone back to university, I’m working on the final draft of Dancing with Edith, and the WW1 novel I’ve been trying to write for 8 years that I thought might take me my whole life to write is actually going somewhere. I’m doing…
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An Actual Manuscript
An author friend who is going to read the first draft requested a printed out version. Surreal moment. Was going to share a spare page from the printing, but just read it and realised it’s a spoiler, basically the only spoiler in the entire book. Looking forward to a bit of a break while I…
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Memoir Musings: End of the Month Deadline
I gave myself a deadline of the end of March for completing a draft of the book. I fluctuate between thinking I’ve got no chance and thinking I’ll manage it. I wrote about 1000 words today though and made some actual progress. From Bella Donna by Robert Hichens: ‘suddenly he would become aware of the…
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International Women’s Day!!
Happy International Women’s Day to all! Here’s a big post to (I hope) celebrate and champion women. First, here are some of my favourite women (real and fictional). My followers may notice that Edith isn’t on this list. The sole reason for that is that I wanted to champion some different women today. Edith will…
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February Books
The shortest month of the year is over (I started writing this at the beginning of March) and I have only read two books. In my defence, if the month had been a couple of days longer I hopefully would maybe have read three because I almost got to the end of one. I’m also…
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Life Update
I do not feel good about my current life situation. Actually I feel pretty shit about it. The current situation is that I am 23, unemployed and living with my parents. Not the life I had envisioned for myself. Actually I think it’s a pretty good sign that somewhere along the line I have messed…
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Writerley Worries: New Year… Same Me
Hey everyone (all approximately 10 of you), Happy 2023! Can’t believe we’re 20 days in already. It is no real surprise that my daily vlogging on my book didn’t last very long. It was going okay and then Christmas, full of people and food, happened. I spent time with several good people and ate a…
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2022 Review
Obligatory end of year post (coming tomorrow, Books I Read in 2022). It’s been a ride. I lost a friend when they moved away, but I’ve made several new ones. Started out the year by beginning my dissertation, submitted it in May, graduated in July and then kind of ground to a halt. Spent the…
