Tag: world war one
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I Suppose I Have Something to Say…
Hi all, The other day I concluded that I am a hamster on a wheel and at some point, either the wheel is going to break, or I am going to fly off it. I don’t know what either of these outcomes would literally involve, I just know I’m tired and frustrated because I don’t…
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I Don’t Really have Anything to Say… #2
I said I would tell you about the novel. It’s about a WW1 nurse who loses her fiancé in the conflict, and the consequences of this for the rest of her life, particularly WW2. Then it becomes a ghost story. It’s set on the Isle of Wight, of course. Well, that’s a bare summary. But…
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Attempts in Adulting
Okay. My original plan was to have a daily blog about writing my dissertation over the summer. But, as you can see, that did not happen. I have now finished my MLitt (I passed!), and am job-hunting (it’s anxiety-inducing). I might do a PhD (again in Creative Writing), in which case I would try to…
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The WW1 Novel
I realise I’ve talked about ‘the WW1 novel’ on here but never gone into detail about it. Now that Dancing with Edith (my ‘book’) is at the final stages, I’ve been working on the WW1 novel (my ‘novel’) in more depth. Particularly over the last few months as I decided to work on it as…
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‘Doomed Youth’: Another Look at The Passing Bells
Just going to enthusiastically ramble about this series again, since I’ve been revisiting it a lot recently (I have it playing in the background while I work on my WW1 novel). Here is my previous post on it. This post will contain spoilers. (All images are taken from the online gallaries for The Passing Bells‘…
