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One of my assignments for my writing course involved making a list of ten useful websites for writers. I decided it would be good to post it online here as well.
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I’ve had some requests from readers to put more of my creative writing on here.

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Deb McDonnell aka Scribbling Damselfly, provides a wonderful insight, with the assistance of Natalie Goldberg, into writing and overcoming writer’s blockI’ve seen this advice before, in the form of Give yourself permission to write a shit first draft — but that last line, about writing without a destination, suddenly unpacked a whole new level of this advice for me. Writing a cruddy first draft is all very well, because it’s not about deliberately sitting down to write crud: it’s about writing through self-doubts and lack of trust and perspective.But lately it hasn’t been working so fully for me, and Goldberg’s snippet above unpacked why.

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Well, after 5 weeks of getting up at 6am to write, I’ve finished the first draft of the short novel I started writing 3 years ago. I’m not sure what the traditional form of celebration is for a first draft, but I think I’ll allow my self a sleep in tomorrow.

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It FINALLY dawned on me last week that the body really will adjust if I start getting up an hour earlier.My corner is the kitchen table, armed with a slice of toast and a coffee.

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They’re for amateurs!I got writer’s knot.This is when your stomach clenches, your bowels ache, your head hurts and your brain freezes.

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Learned some things of course and discovered others.The most interesting thing I discovered was I already knew some things.

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Well! Big announcement. I’m going back to school. With so much of what’s going on in my life lately revolving around writing, I’ve decided to take a course in it. The course I’m doing is “Professional Writing and Editing”, a generic one year course that covers various aspects of writing

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I browsed the bookshop the other day and the jacket reviews turned me off everything a picked up.

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Having got back into writing in the last week, I noticed when I finished a chapter there was a sense of completion and uncertainty about what chapter to do next (each chapter is mostly independent of the previous so I can do that)But even if I was writing straight through from beginning to end, I’d encounter the same problem.So what I do now, is always leave my desk with an unfinished chapter.

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