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Plot Structures: Predictable or Helpful?
Girl meets boy. This is a basic romance plot structure. I want to address your immediate instinct which is to roll your eyes and complain, ‘It’s so predictable.’
When it comes to stories, predictability is generally considered a bad thing. Would you read a book if you knew the ending? You said no, right?..
How To Get Over Writer's Block
Every writer’s heart stops when I utter the words, ‘writer’s block’.
We’re ready to write: we have our tea, our snacks, our pens and we’ve told everyone in the house we’ll be writing upstairs. But then we sit down. We munch on our snacks and stare at the incessant blinking of the cursor on MS Word.
We're people. We have lives. We’re constantly distracted by our phones, friends, families and work...
Last Spring
There’s no way to know exactly how many Spring’s have come and gone. We won’t revisit last year. Spring 2020 wasn’t great but I don’t need to tell you that, you were there.
The start of Spring is celebrated through a variety of festivals from various cultures. I’m going to delve into the Celtic celebration of Imbolc. The name comes from the Gaelic word ‘Oimelc’ which translates to ‘ewes milk’. I don’t know how that’s relevant, but it’s true. It’s one of the seven seasonal celebrations...
The Conflict That Is Paganity
Over generations, Christianity has stampeded and destroyed the remnants of the old religion; the religion of our ancestors. Paganism. You might have heard of her. She’s not a religion so much as an umbrella term, encompassing a range of practices from witchcraft to hugging trees...