Category: Writing
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The Chronicles Map
A cold wind gusts out of the night and whistles along the battlements of Castle Silverhill. It spatters icy raindrops against the leaded windows and sets them rattling in their casements. Tentacles of grey mist ooze from the moat and drift around the keep, probing the ancient stones for cracks and crevices, openings it can…
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Whale of a time
As the days grow cooler here in the southern hemisphere, whales are returning to the waters around Cape Town. During the summer months it’s rare to see a whale in these parts, but come autumn their blows are a regular sight off the coast. I was fascinated to see an unusually shaped whale blow a…
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How well do you get on with your neighbours?
I like to think of my computer, my phone or other gadgets as neighbours rather than tools. It’s not that I don’t have neighbours in the more conventional sense, but that I can’t help anthropomorphising them. (I’ve just stopped to think: how far away from where you live do people stop being neighbours? Does it depend on how densely populated…
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Novel outlining template for Scrivener
Free 24 chapter, 3 act Scrivener template (based on Derek Murphy’s original) for writing your next novel
