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Describing the appearance of characters
I won’t lie. Description is my Achilles’ heel. I’m terrible at reading it too, skipping over swathes of it. I like it short and sweet; to know the character in as few words as possible. (Yet Lord of the Rings is one of my favourite books. Go figure.) Every writer has strengths and weaknesses. But…
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Colonised writing
After inhabiting the polar south with my 1914 horror noveletta, The Crate, I’m up in the north, sucked into the 1845 ill-fated Franklin expedition to find the North-West Passage by way of horror fictionalisation The Terror, by Dan Simmons. Anyway, Google meanderings through the historical background found this in The Conversation, by a Canadian Inuit…
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