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Thursday, May. 1, 2025

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Writing Blog Number 2

by S 🤦

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2311764

This is a continuation of my blogging here at WdC

This will be a blog for my writing, maybe with (too much) personal thrown in. I am hoping it will be a little more interactive, with me answering questions, helping out and whatnot. If it falls this year (2024), then I may stop the whole blogging thing, but that's all a "wait and see" scenario.

An index of topics can be found here: "Writing Blog No.2 Index"

Feel free to comment and interact.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Elisa the Bunny Stik

about 15 hours ago
In response to "20250423 Two Songs, One Meaning (Using Similar Story Ideas)"

And here’s the thing – can you think of a recent song about taking your partner and just getting away from a life of drudgery? I mean, released recently, say, last 20 years? I can’t, and I am a music nerd. Why? Maybe we realise there is no escape. Maybe the world has beaten us down too hard.

I also think there are other possibilities. Maybe now it's about running toward something we want rather than away from something. Or perhaps we already managed to run away and we're successful. We don't need songs about running away when we've managed to escape the traps that bound previous generations.

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Dave Ryan

about 18 hours ago
In response to "20250430 World-building - Mountains"

I always thought Tolkien's 'three sides of a box' mountains around Mordor looked completely absurd.

Soldier_Mike

Apr 28, 2025 at 12:46am
In response to "20250428 Songs That Tell A Story"

Good points, all. It seems to me you could fill a History slot (among others) with this one:

'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot (1976)

S 🤦

Apr 22, 2025 at 12:32am
In response to "20250421 Reposting Another Old Blog - Negative Reviews"

To those who have emailed me...

I am serious. He wanted to kill me for making fun of Jesus. The fact I am on the other side of the world and he is a keyboard warrior nowadays would probably make me goad him; back then, I did panic.

So, yes, he wanted to kill me. Seriously.

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Amethyst Angel 💐

Apr 21, 2025 at 1:41am
In response to "20250421 Reposting Another Old Blog - Negative Reviews"

Glad they didn't carry it out! Some reviews totally cross the line. Around here, we get spoiled... I feel peeved when someone gives me three stars. I think I especially hate it when they say "hey, good story..." Without any reason for giving less than five stars, or at least four if it just didn't appeal to them

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Apr 18, 2025 at 2:04am
In response to "20240418 An Old Blog (Story Matters!)"

The advice is really really good. May inspire me to write a 'decent' story. We'll see. My goals are poetry at the moment and establishing new habits.

citruspocket

Apr 14, 2025 at 2:45am
In response to "20250414 Novel #4"

Thanks for the insight - I enjoyed reading this!

I think you must have high standards for yourself. Your "bad" is a lot better than a lot of "good" (published) books out there.

S 🤦

Apr 12, 2025 at 12:24am
In response to "20250409 Australian Publishing 1"

citruspocket - I have a 50 page rule. Within 50 [pages, I give up. But many of these I read to be patriotic or for school or for book clubs.

Never again.

And I hope you enjoyed the Magic Pudding even if the pudding itself was a little scary...

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citruspocket

Apr 9, 2025 at 2:52am
In response to "20250409 Australian Publishing 1"

I decided a long time ago that if I'm bored or struggling with a book, then I'll give it up... there are far too many good ones out there to waste time struggling with a bad one! My opinion was formed by reading a few Literary books which mostly seemed to be about boring adults getting divorced... Now I read a lot of sci fi and fantasy, much more fun

As a sidenote, I have Australian relatives so read The Magic Pudding when I was younger! I remember finding the illustrations of the pudding a little bit scary though...

S 🤦

Apr 8, 2025 at 12:48am
In response to "20250407 Book Review – How Not To Write A Novel"

citruspocket Carol St.Ann 👓 - I hope you will not be disappointed. I found it quite useful, especially for 2nd drafts.

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December 2, 2024 at 12:09am

#1080726

20241202

So, I started a new novel.

A guy finds his girlfriend is a demon, and before he can be killed, he is saved by a different woman... and she is now using him, unbeknownst to him, as bait as he is about to start dating a second demon. The story is told from narrow 1st person PoV, and is from the PoV of the bait. He has no idea what's going on.

Anywho...

I wrote a poem today, potentially for my normal home-made Christmas card. Not sure it's any good. Especially the ending.

"Christmas Here And There"

But the end of NaNoWriMo, my head still wants to write because it is the only way I have of avoiding reality...

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