On 7th April last week, I finished draft 2 of Hero. It was a quiet thing. I'd given myself a vague June deadline, but after realising I could comfortably up the daily word goal from 600 to 1000 words, things sped up considerably and suddenly it was done. I had the typical "post-draft blues" for... Continue Reading →
It's been a little while since I updated the blog so I thought I'd post a general update. Since my last post, COVID happened, I changed jobs, got glasses and dyed part of my hair green. I've also been dabbling in learning some new skills: I can draw a little, twirl a (plastic) sword, and... Continue Reading →
Image by Artie_Navarre I've been working on a novel for a few years now. Not the YA Pyromancer one that my Rewriter's Block posts followed (that one's gonna be on the backburner for a while). This one's a trope-bending comic fantasy and even after three years of work I'm still utterly in love with it... Continue Reading →
(Lightning? Because it's flash fiction, geddit?) I've been in a bit of a writing rut lately, so to get more ideas going I committed to posting a flash fiction every day for thirty days. Here is what I came up with... 1 The virus wiped out all high-functioning robots and supercomputers. 'Now we are free... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year again! I'll be posting a prompt a day up until 24th December. See if any of these inspire a prose piece, a poem, a blog post, a drawing...? I'll be doing these too and will post some of my work up on Twitter (@GraceHaddon). Merry writing! The protagonist of the... Continue Reading →
Written for the Creative Writing Ink Prompt for January 18th, which was to write a story inspired by this image. Photo belongs to Sydney Rae. Maria first saw the dead girl during double science on a Thursday afternoon. Mr. Whittaker paced between the battered desks, handing out worksheets. Maria squidged her hands between her... Continue Reading →
Myths are great. We all know them, yet we’re constantly re-interpreting and re-imagining them in the fiction we create. Writers should steal from the best, so why not take inspiration from the stories that have survived for centuries? Look in any bookshop (especially the YA section) and you’ll find plenty of fairy tale retellings, and... Continue Reading →
Missed me? It’s been a while since I’ve made a proper blog post, so apologies for that. The blog is likely to be quieter this year as I’m making a push to improve my writing habits and actually get things done. I graduate in May so the first half of this year is getting as... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year again! For the past couple of Decembers, I've set myself a writing prompt challenge. Each day a new story writing idea, and twenty minutes to write something cool. It's surprisingly good for mining out new material, and quite often the stuff I end up with goes towards uni coursework, short... Continue Reading →
Hoo boy. I’ve not updated this series in a while. July, in fact. And stuff has changed again since then. Pyromancer’s felt pretty dead for a little while, and I’ve had doubts about whether or not to use it for my dissertation. I’ve just felt utterly stuck with it and unsure how to make it... Continue Reading →
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