The second chapter in A Year to a Writing Life features the personal essay. This is a genre I haven’t had much experience with, unless you count blogging and those tedious “What did you do during the summer break?” assignments they kept giving me at school. The exercises in this chapter were quite different from in the first chapter. Instead of Continue reading One Year to a Writing Life – February – Personal Essay
It’s March, which means in just one measly month it’s time for the April rendition of Camp NaNoWriMo. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Camp NaNoWriMo is a month-long writing project by the same people who run the better-known NaNoWriMo. There are two Camps each year, one in April and one in July. Last year I drafted by WIP Continue reading Ready your tents, it’s almost Camp time!
Last July, I participate in Camp NaNoWriMo. During the course of the project I drafted and did a first revision of my novella Going Home (which is now in the later stages of revision) and as a reward to myself for completing the project I decided to purchase a book on writing. After some browsing, I settled on One Year to a Continue reading One Year to a Writing Life – January – Journaling
Going Home is actually one of my absolute oldest ideas, dating back to when I was 14 (so about 2002). Back then it was supposed to be a YA novel series about a school for spies, which I thought up while reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. About half a dozen metamorphoses later it has changed genre, plot, world, themes, Continue reading Going Home – A dystopian novella about family, memory and identity
The 11th, and second to last, chapter of One Year to a Writing Life is about rewriting. I’ll confess that due to NaNo and the impending release of Going Home, I haven’t managed to put quite as much time into the exercises as I normally do. The chapter featured a quite comprehensive list of things to look at when rewriting and editing (figurative language, Continue reading One Year to a Writing Life – November – Rewriting
When you start a new WordPress blog, a placeholder post is created with the title “Hello World”. Well, that seems to sum up what I want to say right now quite well. Hello, World. This is my blog. Welcome. My name is Emma. I’m a writer. I’m other things too, and if you want to know more about me, you Continue reading Hello, World! It’s Emma calling.