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Lean on Me
Starting a story is something I’ve never found hard. It’s finishing that trips me up and I’ve probably got about fifty stories with little more than a promising paragraph or some interesting opening...
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Spare Me the Details.
Get to the point! How many times have you been listening to someone relating an incident and your ears are nearly bursting at all the trivial detail? The story progresses at a snail’s pace and...
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How’s the weather?
Cloudy with a chance of rain. Or maybe sunny with a cool change later in the day. Have I raised your curiosity yet? No, didn’t think so. In fact, I’m getting a bit bored myself. Just goes to show...
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Skinny Fiction – Stories Without Flab
Ernest Hemingway once wrote a short story in only six words. Hard to believe? Well, here it is. For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Most people agree it’s a story once heard, never forgotten. Those six...
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Don’t Ask Me to Run
Running is only for emergencies. It’s been my lifelong motto and it’s served me well. Snakes, bull-ants, fire, flood, small child heading for deep water, or cafe about to switch off the coffee machine...
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So, what’s it called?
Naming a new puppy would’ve been easier. It didn’t even take me that long to come up with names for my children. But it’s taken me nearly five months to come up with a title for my blog. You’d think,...
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The Long and the Short of It
There’s been a lot of interest in Skinny Fiction lately. It’s been popping up on writers’ blog sites all over the world and a lot of people are turning their hand to writing powerful stories packed...
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Words That Punch Above Their Weight
If I had to pick a favourite word, it would have to be whoops. It’s so universal, so expressive and everyone can read whatever they imagine into that one word. It’s a word that punches above its...
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I’m easily distracted . . .
Now, where was I? Oh yeah, that’s it, writing a blog post. Believe it or not, between my title and opening sentence, a whole week has slipped by. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, distraction muttered...
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Making a great start
Everything I write begins in the same way. I have a nice bit of inspiration to kick it off. I wade right in with a snappy opening paragraph that throws the main character right into the thick of the...
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