arnaud

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Feeling bad

I started the week with an optimistic move : after months of pondering whether or not I should, I decided to finally buy a Kindle from Amazon. My main reason for doing this is that I’m tired (physically tired) to commute while […]

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The battle’s on

Yes, finally, the two sisters are doing battle at the dinner party. I think I’ve made the right choice splitting the chapter into the two viewpoints – we get to see Listeria’s planning and Ciera destroying those plans, mostly using sheer dumb […]

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Dual chapter

Maybe I should call this post “duel chapter” instead.   This is something I’ve not done before : usually once I’m done with a viewpoint character, I change the chapter number. I’ve done that 22 times – one chapter – one viewpoint […]

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Managing my influences

After this week’s Writing Excuses podcast, I have been wondering what are my influences, so that I understand better what I’m writing. This will take on a list form – could become boring, so beware. Early influences : Some Realists writers from […]

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Word counts

Ok, someone told me that I did put too much emphasis on the number of words I write and that the quality of what I write should be more important than the quantity. Well, I suppose that’s partly right. In my defense, […]

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