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The morning train

September 30, 2016 By Ellen

Later they would say that morning held a bleakly uneasy sense of doom. That the birds didn’t sing and the drizzle on the windows ran like tears. But they’d be making it up. It is a perfectly ordinary Tuesday morning and the train is silent but for the shushing and muttering from headphones and the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: creative writing, fiction, writing

How writing is like climbing a mountain

September 29, 2016 By Ellen

This month I’ve written or edited almost 60,000 words. I only know this because I use the rather helpful Grammarly to check that I haven’t missed some hideously glaring error. It also, handily, strips off all the different fonts and styling you end up with when you’ve been doing lots of cut and pasting (cutting […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: creative writing, fiction, in my life, in the world, MLitt, mountains, realisation, Scotland

How much is more than I can chew?

September 19, 2016 By Ellen

It started last week – my MLitt in creative writing at the University of Glasgow. And in the manner that very much I imagine it will continue. There I was convinced I didn’t need to be there until noon when I thought I’d better check. 10am. That’s when I need to be there – in […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, My Life Tagged With: creative writing, Glasgow, in my life, MLitt, My Life, on my mind, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, University, writing

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