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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

I wish I was more like Amory Clay (Sweet Caress – William Boyd)

October 2, 2015 By Ellen

Every so often between the pages of a book, I find someone who lives, breathes and walks around in my mind. They enter my dreams and then I miss them as though they once sat across from me with a coffee cup, telling me a story. This week, I’m grieving a little for Amory Clay. […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: adventure, books, fiction, in the world, novel, photography, Review, William Boyd, writing

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