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Making the Most of Your Writing Time

January 17, 2025 By Allison Symes Leave a Comment

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Making the most of writing time is always a timely topic. Every writer will have their own answer to this.

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Planning Out Your Writing

February 9, 2024 By Allison Symes Leave a Comment

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I’m a great believer in planning out my writing for various reasons.

  • Planning out what I write when means I don’t miss deadlines. This is vital for posts such as this but also for short story and flash fiction competitions.

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Frameworks in Fiction

February 18, 2022 By Allison Symes 2 Comments

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The definition of framework is an essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object. Well, that can be extended out to include stories. They need a structure to make them work.

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Prep Work

December 17, 2021 By Allison Symes 2 Comments

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There’s plenty of prep work going on I suspect by the time this post goes out. I hope your Christmas preparations are going well. (I’m in the middle of mine with my food shop due next week and baking still to be done but I’ll get there).

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