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All stories are fractal. Here’s why.

I like this piece by Damien Waller. Particular what he says about structure; like it or loathe it, ‘it’s bigger than we are’. It’s a fee paying online course promotion post designed to whet your appetite but still…interesting read.

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Upgrade for Creative Writing PhD Research

So as with all PhD students I fretted about Upgrade. When you embark on your PhD it seems a long way off and a monumental milestone to reach in the behemoth that is THE PhD.  As you sweat over the minutiae of your application wording, wondering by the end if this is really something you want to do, you cannot imagine yourself standing up in front of a panel of experienced academics talking with…

Update To Upgrade and Beyond…

So. It’s been a while. How many blog posts start like that?! Well.  A lot. I nearly thought of quitting this but even though my presence here feels more documentation than communication it has a use. Since my last post back in October my mother’s health deteriorated fast and finally she died in Early February, 5 days before I was due to present the oral part of my Upgrade examination. I can’t…

NAWE 2016 Good Girls, Bad Girls in YA fiction

Looking forward to co-presenting the Good, Girls, Bad Girls creative writing workshop this Saturday as part of a brilliant and packed programme at NAWE’s annual conference. The workshop will explore how to write memorable female characters, ask what makes a memorable, relatable protagonist and, just as importantly, our antagonists. Although we’ll dip into a few examples from…

Writing in the 21st Century @ The Cambridge Festival of Ideas

  The future of writing is now. Smartphones, interactive storytelling, stories that take us right into the future…now.  Writing and technology have a long backstory: from Guttenberg’s press [and beyond] to today’s digital smart phones humans have explored new ways of communicating with each other using tools of one form or another and these tools have had an impact not only on how we communicate…

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You Don’t Love Me

  For a moment my heart stops.

Ottie, I say, sitting down and offering you a biscuit. Some weak recompense for the toy you so want so badly but I have no money to buy. I love you so much I can barely think about how much I love you. When I do I have to sit down. [I sit down]. I have to stop everything, including breathing. I literally can’t do anything or think about anything else. Thinking how…

Inspired by the Internet#1

I took a moment to revisit a favourite radio 4 series by researcher in all things digital Aleka Krotoski and found this. Sparking a blog post series that I am naming Inpired by the Internet  that will share and archive a colection of creative work that has been inspired by our online life. A creative responses to the multiple and nefarious ways that we are being shaped and possibly tranformed…

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Google Help: More Young People Watching YouTube than TV

  It’s not entirely shocking news that children and young people spend more time online than watching TV nowadays.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35524429

What is interesting though is how hard it is to find out anything much about Googles online roadshow for safer interenet for primary schools [see end of article]. Apart from a skeletal outline of its top tips which you can read here:

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Great Advice on PhD Supervisors

I have recently undergone  achange of supervisory team because I have changed the focus of my creative writing PhD from writing a novel about the impact of social media and motherhood to one looking at the impact on young people of growing up online. This articlce by expience PhD suprvisor and examiner Tara Brabazon has some really interesting things to say about the importance of getting your…

Collaborative Writing in YA Fiction

  Really interesting piece here by YA author Liz Flanagan interviewing authors who write together.

Collaborative Writing in YA Fiction